Vocabulary Book

Vocabulary Book

Austin DeWalt

Period 7

Active white space – blank areas on a Web page that are placed on purpose

Alignment – means that the content of a page has the same alignment

Consistency – to have uniformity form page to page

Grid – a conceptual design tool that divides a page into rows and columns in order to help the Webmaster structure the layout of a page

Passive white space – the blank areas on a Web page that are a result of incomplete or mismatched shapes

Proximity – refers to how close one element is to another

Repetition – the process of repeating elements throughout a Web site

Print-based layout method – takes into account that people are already accustomed to viewing content in printed material in a certain way

Screen-based layout method – on a screen a user scans the content in an effective sweeping motion

Analogous Colors - three colors on the color wheel that is side by side

Bit - the smallest unit of information that a computer understands

Color Wheel - an ordered progression of hues (or colors) that helps a designer easily understands & selects color combinations

Complementary Colors - colors that are located opposite from each other on the color wheel

Primary Hues - the additive color wheel are red, green, and blue (RGB)

Shade – darkening of a hue

Split-Complementary Colors – form an uneven triangle on the color wheel

Tertiary Hues – red-yellow (orange), green-yellow, green-cyan, blue-cyan, blue-magenta (violet), and red-magenta

Tint – the lightening of a hue

Triad Colors – three colors on the color wheel that has an equal amount of distance between each one

Typography – the act or art of expressing an idea by utilizing type faces or symbols

Value – the lightness or darkness of a hue

Warm Colors – hues that contain red

Clip Art -  made art that is available to use without having to edit it in any graphics application

Compression – to make smaller, in the sense that amount of information is reduced

File Format – the arrangement in which data is saved in order to display it in a certain way

GIF – file format that can be viewed equally will in every kind of computer

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

Index Color – GIF can contain a maximum of 256 colors

JPEG – Joint photographic Experts group: photo-like graphics

Raster – an image that is made up of pixels

Vector – image is based on a mathematical formula