Web Design Terms

Common
Web Design
Terms
&
Acronyms

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Common Web Design Terms and Acronyms
Whether you're a web designer, someone studying web design, or
someone who is just working on the web design for a website you
plan to commission, from time to time you're likely to come across an
industry term that truly seems to be in a foreign language, or a an
acronym that you just can't make head or tail of.

If someone's just told you that you're HTML, JPEG and PHP for your
CMS is not SEF or accordant with W3C guidelines and you have no
idea what they're talking about, here's a quick rundown on common
web design terms and acronyms for you:


BROWSER
• A browser is computer program that
displays websites on the internet.

• Without browsers there would be no web
design.

• Examples: Internet Explorer, Google
Chrome, Firefox, Safari.


CMS
• CMS translates to Content Management
System.

• CMS is a system used in web design to add
or amend text on a web page.

• Example: Joomla.


DATABASE
• A database is a collection of data stored on
a web server.

• Databases are used in the web design of
search pages.

• Types of databases are:
Analytical, Data Warehouse,
Distributed,
End-User, External, Hypermedia and
Operational.

E-COMMERCE WEBSITE
• E-Commerce websites are those that are
specifically established to enable the purchase or
sale of products or services over the internet.

• Examples: Amazon.com, Ebay.com


FLASH
• Flash is a Plugin produced by Adobe that
enables rich functionality in web design.

• Flash is often used in the design of games
and other animated features.


HTML
• HTML translated to HyperText
Markup Language.

• It is the primary scripting language
used to write web pages.


HOMEPAGE
• A homepage is the first page that is
displayed when a user opens a web browser
or selects the "home" button on the browser
menu.

• People often have their home page set to
popular or useful sites such as Google or a
news feed such as MSN or CNN.


HOSTING COMPANY
• Hosting companies offer space on their web
servers for public sale or rental.

• Every website must have a host so
operating a hosting company can be a
lucrative business enterprise.


HYPERLINK
• A hyperlink is a link to another image,
document, download or website that is
embedded in a web page.

JPEG
• JPEG translates to Joint Photographic Experts
Group.

• JPEG is a type of image file and is the
common image format required for images used
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PHP
• PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocesser.

• It is another computer language mainly used
to create dynamic (moving or interactive) web
pages.

SEF
• SEF translates to Search Engine Friendly and
refers to any element of a website that works
toward optimizing the visibility of a website on
popular search engines such as Google.

SEO
• SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization
that is a system of methods used to boost a
website's placement in search engine results
listings.

Search Engine
• A Search Engine is a website that has been
specifically designed to allow users to search
for information on the internet by entering key
search terms to direct the search and order
the results according to their relevance.

• Google is the most well-known search
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W3C
• W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium.

• The W3C is an organization that dictates
standards of web design and development on an
international scale.


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