Glossary of Key Terminology in web design

A

• accessibility

• affiliate program

• agent

• AJAX

• anchor

• anti-aliasing

• applet

• associate program

• attribute

• aural

• azimuth

B

• backlink

• bad neighborhood

• bandwidth

• below the fold

• block-level elements

• blog

• bookmark

• boolean

• bounce rate

• breadcrumb

• brightness

• browser

C

• candidate recommendation

• CAPTCHA

• cascade

• Cascading Style Sheets

• case-sensitive

• CDATA

• CDF

• CGI

• child

• CMS

• comment

• comment - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• comment - XML

• container element

• content

• continuous media

• conversion

• conversion funnel

• conversion rate

• cookie

• CSS

• CSS Framework

• cursive

D

• declaration (CSS)

• declaration statement (XML)

• dedicated server

• deprecated

• design

• DHTML

• dither

• DNS

• doctype

• DOM

• domain

• domain name

• DPI

• DTD

E

• ecommerce

• elastic layout

• element

• em

• embedded style

• entry page

• EPUB

• ex

• exit page

• Extensible Markup Language

• external link

• external style sheet

F

• fantasy

• favicon

• favorites icon

• first visit

• fixed width layout

• focal point

• fold

• font

• font category

• font family

• font stack

• font style

• font weight

• FQDN

G

• GIF

• graceful degradation

H

• heuristics

• hexadecimal

• hit

• HSL

• .htaccess

• HTML

• HTML code

• HTML codes

• html tag

• HTTP

• HTTPS

• hue

• hyperlink

• hypertext

I

• image map

• impression

• inbound link

• inheritance

• inline elements

• inline style

• internal link

• IP

• IP address

• IRI

J

• JPEG

• JPG

K

• kerning

• keywords

L

• LAMP

• leading

• link

• link farm

• liquid layout

• long tail

• lorem ipsum

M

• MAMP

• markup

• marquee

• master family

• meta data

• meta tag

• MIME type

• minify

• monospace

N

• natural search

• nesting

• new visitor

• non-breaking space

• normal flow

O

• organic search

• outbound link

P

• paged media

• pageview

• parent

• PDF

• permalink

• pica

• pixel

• pixel (typography)

• placeholder text

• PNG

• podcast

• point

• progressive enhancement

• prolog

• property

• proposed recommendation

• pseudo-element

• pseudo-class

R

• recommendation

• repeat visitor

• replaced element

• resolution

• RGB

• RSS

• RSS scraping

• rule

S

• sans-serif

• saturation

• schema

• script

• selector

• semantic markup

• seo

• serif

• SGML

• shortcut menu

• Simple Object Access Protocol

• singleton (HTML)

• singleton (web analytics)

• SOAP

• specification

• specificity

• Standard Generalized Markup Language

• streaming media

• style

• subdomain

T

• tag

• text editor

• TLD

• TLDN

• tracking

• typeface

U

• universal selector

• URI

• URL

• URN

• usability

• user agent

V

• valid

• validate

• visit

• visitor

• void element

W

• W3C

• WAMP

• web application

• web designer

• web developer

• web log

• web page

• web server

• web standards

• well-formed

• white space

• wiki

• wireframe

• working draft

• WYSIWYG

• WYSIWYG editor

X

• x-height

• XHTML

• XML