Web Design Vocabulary

                  Web Design Vocabulary 

                                              By: Jesus Ruiz

Active White Space : Blank areas on a web page that are placed on purpose. 

Allignment : The content of the page has similar allignment

Consistency : To have uniformity from page to page 

Grid : Conceptual design too that divides a page into rows and columns.

Passive White Space : Blank areas on a web page that are a result of incomplete or mismatched shapes. 

Proximity : How close one element is to another 

Repetition : Repeating elements throughout a web site

Print based Layout Station : Page flowing from left to right

Screen Based Layuout Station : Page presented ina scatter formation , sweeping .

Analogous Colors - Three colors on the color wheel that are 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 understand and select color combinations.

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

Primary Hues - Red, green, and blue.

Secondary hues - Cyan, magenta, and yellow.

Shade - Adding black to a hue and darkening it.

Split-Complementary Colors -  Colors that form a triad on the color wheel.

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

Tint - Adding white to a hue and lightening it

Triad colors - Three colors on the color wheel that have an equal amount of distance between each one.

Typography - The act or art of expressing by utilizing types or symbols.

Value - The lightness or darkness of a hue.

Warm Colors - Colors that contain red.

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

Compression - Reduce the file size by compressing the information in the file

File Format - The arrangement in which data is saved in order to display it in a certain way.

GIF - File format used for images; also known as Graphic Interchange Format.

Icon - Small symbolic graphic.

Index Color - The colors that are available in a GIF file.

JPEG - File format used for images; also known as Joint Photographic Experts Group.

Raster - An image that is made up of pixels.

Vector - Uses coordinates to define the shape of a graphic based on a mathematical formula.