WEB DESIGN VOCABULARY

WEB DESIGN VOCABULARY 

Rianna Rich

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< 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

< 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 6 heading

< BR > Add a line break

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

< 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

< A > Designate a hyperlink

< IMG > Designate an image

< TABLE > Designate an HTML table

< TR > Designate a table row

< TD > Designate a table cell

< TH > Designate a table heading

< FRAMESET > Designate a frames page

< FRAME > Designate a frame within a frames page

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

< FORM > Designate the start of a form

< INPUT > Designate a form element

< SELECT > Designate a pull-down menu

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

< TEXTAREA > Designate a text area to insert text

Attribute- is an addition to an HTML tag that is used to modify its properies

Container Tags- these tags are in pairs, usually with some other text  or HTML 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, could be used to show that a certain sentence on a web page should be written in boldface print

Ordered List- each item has a number instead of a bullet by it.

Source Code- HTML source code since it is the source of what is eventually displayed on the screen.

Tags- or codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attributes of a section of text.

Unordered list- are good for listing items whose order is nnot important

Value- specifies that the paragraph be aligned in the center of the page

Absolute URL- is one in which the protocol and web server name is used

External Link- are links to documents that reside on Web sites other than the one you are creating.

Hyperlink- links to other web pages

Internal link- Links that are used to navigate between the pages of one site

Intrapage link- is a linkwithin one web page.

Link- is a pointer to a document or file somewhere on the web.

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

Thumbnail-  is a small inage represenation of a larger image.

Cell- in tables, just as in spreadsheets, we call the area created by the intersection of a row anda column a cell.

Container- the container page will actually define which web page is to be used as the navigation bar and which web page is to be used as the main window.

Frameset- is the name given to a group of frames that act together to make up one web page.

Button-  is called a submit button

Check box- are similar to radio buttons in that there are a set of predefined choices from which the user may make a selction

Form- is an element on a web page that is used to collect data from a web site user.

Hidden Field- allows a value to be passed from the form to the page that is specified in the ACTION attribute without the knowledge of the Web site.

Label- promotes a specific thing

Password field- Anything that a user types in a password field will be replaced by asterisks.

Pull-down menu- are used hen you do not want the user to type in his or her own data

Querystring- simply a part of the URL, so be aware that any form data that is submitted through the GET method is visible in the URL.

Radio button- are another type of form element where the user is presented with a set of options from which to choose

Text area- is a large space in which a user can type his or her comments

Text box- form element is a box into which the user can key text.