Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary

Active white space- blank areas on a web page that're replaced on purpose

Alignment- Simply means that the content of a page has a 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- Rfers to how close one element is to another

Repetition- Similar to constincency is the process of repeating elements throughout a website

Print based layout method- first method, which takes in account that people are likely 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 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 than the traditional method 

analogous colors- are three colors on the color wheel that're side by side

bit- is smallest unit of information that a computer understands

color wheel- is an ordered progress 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

secondary hues- are cyan, magenta, and yellow

shade- darkening a hue

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

tertiary hues- are red-yellow, green yellow, green cyan, blue cyan, blue magenta, and red magenta

tint- lighting of a hue

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

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

value- refering to its lightness or darkness

warm colors- hues that contain red

clip art- ready made art thats 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 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- grapics and image thats made of pixels

vector- images are based on a mathemetical formula