Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary

By Raymond Nguyen aka therapist

Active White Space- Is blank areas on a Web page that are replaced on purpose

Alignment- Simply means that the content of a page has the same alignment

Consistency- Means to have uniformity from page to page

Grid- Is 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- Is 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- Similar to consistency is the process of repeating elements throughout a Website

Print-based layout method- The first method, which takes in account that people are already accustomed to viewing content in printed material in a certain way. When you read a book, for example, your eye automatically goes to the top left corner of the page and you begin to read from left to right.

Screen-based layout method- The second method of guiding the eye, on a screen a user scans the content in effective sweeping motions, rather than the traditional method

Analogous colors- are three colors on the color wheel that are side by side

Bit- is the smallest unit of information that a computer understands

Color wheel- is an ordered progression of hues (or colors) that helps a designer easily understand and select color combinations

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

Cool colors- contain the color blue

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

Secondary hues- are cyan, magenta, and yellow

Shade- darkening a hue

Split-complementary colors- form an uneven triangle on the color wheel as shown

Tertiary hues- are red-yellow (orange), green-yellow, green-cyan, blue-cyan, blue-magenta (violet) m and red-magenta

Tint- lighting of a hue

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

Typography- is the act or art of expressing an idea by utilizing typefaces or symbols

Value- referring to its lightness or darkness

Warm colors-Hues that contain red 

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

Compression- Means to make smallest, in the sense that the amount of information is reduced.

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

GIF- a file format that can be viewed equally well on every kind of computer

Icon- A small symbolic graphic

Index Color- A maximum of 256 colors

JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Group; a type of file format is best used with photo-like graphics.

Raster- graphics is an image that is made up of pixels

Vector- Images are based on a mathematical formula