Web Design Definitions
Body: The BODY of a web page contains the document's content. The content may be presented by a browser in a variety of ways. You can think of the BODY as a canvas where the content appears: text, images, colors, graphics, etc. Domain: On the Internet, a domain is a network address. This is similar to your home's address used by the postal system. The mailman can deliver our mail because we have a unique address such as 2275 Beverly Lane - Clearwater FL 33764. On the Web, each site has its own unique address also, so that Web servers can find it. These domains are also referred to as "Dot.Coms". Our domain here is www.profitgate.net. Frames: In a Web site, frames are the multiple, independently controllable sections on a Web presentation. This effect is achieved by building each part as a separate HTML file and having one "master" HTML file identify all of the parts. Surveys of users indicate that many people do not like sites using frames, and Search Engines particularly have a tough time with frames. Using frames can prevent them from finding pages within a Web site and essentially makes the site "invisible" to many search engines. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format): One of the two most common file formats for graphic images on the World Wide Web. The other is the JPEG. On the Internet, the GIF has become the standard format for images. Graphic: (or image) In computers, and on the Internet, a picture is generally referred to as a "graphic" or an "image". Heading: In all web pages, the "heading" is at the top of the page and contains basic instructions needed by browsers to decode the page and present it to the user's computer. The most important of these instructions is a tag identifying this as a web page: <html> Home Page: For a Web site developer, a home page is the first page presented when a user selects a site or presence on the World Wide Web. Hosting: Hosting (also known as Web site hosting, Web hosting, and Webhosting) is the business of housing, providing a server, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. HTML: (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on the World Wide Web. The markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page for the user. Each individual markup code is referred to as an element or tag. HTML is a formal Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is generally adhered to by the major browsers, Mozilla's FireFox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google's Chrome. The current version of HTML is HTML 4.0. However, both Internet Explorer and Firefox implement some features differently and provide non-standard extensions. This makes building web site very challenging, even for the professional. Hypertext: This is what makes the Web work. Hypertext is a link between some text at point A, and something related to this at point B. For example, you might have a word like automobile (point A) - linked to a photo of a particular car (point B). .jpg or JPEG: (pronounced JAY-peg) A graphic image format. When you create a JPEG, you are asked to specify the quality of image you want. Since the highest quality results in the largest file, you can make a trade-off between image quality and file size. Keyword: 1) A word (or more commonly, a phrase) that is used to search the Internet, via a search engine, when seeking a particular type of information. Search Engine Friendly: means ensuring that your web pages use code in their design that is understandable to the search engines. Search engines are one of the primary ways that Internet users find web sites. Many web designers know little or nothing about how search engines work, and may therefore build a website that gets poor results. Web Design: The arrangement and creation of web pages that in turn make up a web site. There are many aspects to this process, and due to the rapid development of the Internet, new aspects are continually being added. As far as business web sites go, the basics currently consist of (in order of importance):
Webmaster: A Webmaster is a person who either: Companies vary in their use of the term. In a smaller company, a Webmaster typically "does it all." In a larger company, a Webmaster tends to be someone with either a writing and/or graphics design background who has acquired Web site creation skills (mainly knowledge and experience with HTML) or a more technical person with some programming skills. Webpage: On the World Wide Web, a page is a single file written with the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Usually, it contains text and specifications about where images or other files are to be placed when the page is displayed by a browser. A webpage (also spelled - Web page) is part of a Web site. The first page you usually request at a site is known as the home page. (Most home pages have a default name like "index.html" that doesn't have to be specified; you only need to enter the domain name for the site itself.) With frames, multiple pages (HTML files) can be downloaded to a browser and presented on designated sections of the display screen at the same time. Website: (also called a site) A Web site is a collection of Web files on a particular subject that includes a beginning file called a home page. For example, most companies, organizations, or individuals that own Web sites have a single address that they give you. This is their home page address. From the home page, you can get to all the other pages on their site. |
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