Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary

Miguel G. 

Memorial High School

HTML TAG   Purpose                             Attribute

< HTML > Begin the HTML page

< HEAD > Begin the heading of the document

< TITLE > Designate the title of the page

< BODY > Begin the body of the document BGCOLOR

< H1 > Format a level 1 heading 

< H2 > Format a level 2 heading

< H3 > Format a level 3 heading

< H4 > Format a level 4 heading

< H5 > Format a level 5 heading

< H6 > Format a level heading 6

< BR > Add a line break

< P > Set apart a group of text as  a paragraph ALIGN

< I > Format the text using italics

< B > Format the text with boldface

< UL > Create an unordered list

< OL > Create an ordered list

< LI > Specify a list item

< FONT > Specify font characteristics FACE,COLOR

< A > Designate a hyperlink HREF, TARGET, NAME

< IMG > Designate an image SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALIGN, BORDER

< TABLE > Designate an HTML table BORDER, WIDTH, CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING

< TR > Designate a table row BGCOLOR

< TD > Designate a table cell COLSPAN, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, ROWSPAN

< TH > Designate a table heading

< FRAMESET > Designate a frames page COLS,ROWS

< FRAME > Designate a frame within a frames page SRC, NAME

< NOFRAMES> Designate code that will be displayed if frames are not supported

< FORM > Designate the start of a form ACTION, METHOD

< INPUT > Designate a form element NAME, TYPE, VALUE

< SELECT > Designate a pull-down menu NAME

< OPTION > Designate an item in a pull-down menu VALUE

< TEXTAREA > DEsignate a text area to insert NAME, ROWS, COLS

Lesson 7

Attribute- Addition to an HTML tag that is used to modify its properties.

Container Tags- Work in pairs usually with some other text or HTML in between them

Document Type Declaration (DTD)- It basically tells the browser what type of document to expect.

Empty Tags- Does not contain text.

HTML- Hypertext Markup Language consists of a series of tags or codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attributes of a section of a text.

Hypertext- Organization of units of information that can be connected with links, had already been around for a long time

Ordered List-Used for items whose order does matter. Each item has a number instead of a bullet by it.

Source Code- Source of what is eventually displayed on the screen

Tags- Codes that can be used in a webpage to designate attributes of a section of text

Unordered List- Unordered lists are good for listing items whose order is not important. Each item will have a bullet next to it.

Value- Specifies that the paragraph be aligned in the center of the page.

 Lesson 8

hyperlinks- links to to other Web pages

link- a pointer to a document or file somewhere on the Web

external link- are link to documents that reside on Web sites other than the one you are creating

hypertext reference- tell the browser where you want to link, you must use the HREF

internal links- links that are used to navigate between the pages of one site are called

absolute URL- is one which the protocol and Web server name is used

relative URL- one in which the document being linked to is described relative to another location

intrapage link- a link within one Web page

thumbnail- a small representation of a larger image

 Lesson 9