Web Design: Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulay

Katherine Blanco

1. Active White Space - Blank area on a Web page that is placed on purpose.

2. Alignment - The contents of a page share the same alignment.

3. Consistency - To have uniformity from page to page.

4. Grid - A conceptua design tool that divides a page into rows and columns in order to help the Webmaster structure the layout of a page.

5. Passive white space - Blank areas on a Web page that are a result of incomplete or mismatched shapes.

6. Proximity - Refers to how close one elemnt is to another.

7. Repetition - The process of repeating elements throughout a Web site.

1. Print-based layout method - A layout that guides the eye starting from the top left corner of the page in a zigzagging pattern from left to right.

2. Screen-based layout method - A layout that guides the eye starting from the top left corner of the page in an effective sweeping motion. 

1. Color wheel- an ordered progression of hues (or colors) that helps a designer easily understand and select color combinations.
2. Primary hues- red, green and blue (RGB)
3. Secondary hues- cyan, magenta, and yellow
4. Tertiary hues- red-yellow (orange), green-yellow, green-cyan, blue-cyan, blue-magenta (violet) and red-magenta
5. Value- color’s lightening or darkness
6. Tint- lightening of hue
7. Shade- darkening a hue
8. Warm colors- hues that contain red
9. Cool colors- contains blue
10. Complementary colors- colors located opposite from each other on the color wheel
11. Split-complementary colors- an uneven triangle on the color wheel
12. Triad colors- three colors on the color wheel that have an equal amount of distance between each one
13. Analogous colors- three colors on the color wheel that are side by side
14. Typography- the act or art of expressing an idea by utilizing type faces or symbol
15. Bit- the smallest unit of information that a computer understands

1. CLIP ART -  made art that is available to use without having to edit it in any graphics application
2. COMPRESSION – to make smaller, in the sense that amount of information is reduced
3. FILE FORMAT – the arrangement in which data is saved in order to display it in a certain way
4. GIF – file format that can be viewed equally will in every kind of computer
5. ICON – used as part of the user’s interface or can be alongside of certain piece of information to help the user identify types of information
6. INDEX COLOR – GIF can contain a maximum of 256 colors
7. JPEG – Joint photographic Experts group: photo-like graphics
8. RASTER – an image that is made up of pixels
9. VECTOR – image is based on a mathematical formula