Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary 

Kennedy Sanders

Memorial High School

< HTML > Begin the HTML page
< HEAD > Begin the heading of  the document
< TITLE > Designate the title of the page BGCOLOR
< BODY > Begin the Body of the document
< H1 > Format a Level 1 heading
< H2 > Format a level 2 heading
< H3> Formate a level 3 heading
< H4 > Formate a level 4 heading
< H5 > Formate a level 5 heading
< H6 > Formate a level 6 heading
< BR > Add a line break
< P > Set apart a group of text as a paragraph ALIGN
< I > Formate 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 HERF, TARGET, NAME
< IMG > Designate an image SRC, ALTM HIEGHT, WIDTH, ALIGN,BORDER
< TABLE > Desginate an HTML table BORDER, WIDTH, CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING
< TR> Desginate a table row BGCOLOR
< TD > Designate a table cell COLSPAN, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, ROWSPAN
< TH > Designate a table heading
< FRAMESET > Designate a frame 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
< TEXTAREA> Designate a text area to insert texrt NAME, ROWS, COLS

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 link within 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 image representation of a larger image

Cell-area created by the intersection of a row and a column

Container-defines 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

Nested-Opening a new tag before closing the first one.

Attribute- A addition to an HTML tag that is used to modify it's properties.

Container Tags- Tags that work in pairs usually with some other text or HTML  in between them.

Document type declaration (DTD)- Tells the browser what type of document to expect.

Empty tags-  Tag that does not contain text

HTML- A series of tags or codes that can be used in a web page to designate attributes of a section of text.

Hypertext- Organization of units of information that can be connected with links.

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

Source code-  HTML code, source of what is eventually displayed on the screen.

Tags- Desginate attributes of a sectin of text.

Unordered list- Listing items whose order is not important.

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