Friday 15 February 2013

Learning the Terminology and Software

Learning to use and be comfortable with specific terminology is a huge part of being able to design for the internet and comprehend the language therefore I will be using this Blog as a glossary for the concepts and functions that I am working with.

HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language- Language for web creating.
CODING: Text in the form of symbols and elements to create a website.
URL: Uniform resource locater- Global address for documents and resources on the web.
PRIMARY NAVIGATION: The horizontal bar that guides users through the site's content.
SECONDARY NAVIGATION: The side vertical bar that guides users through the site's content.
BARRIER ENTRY: A website where you must sign up before given access.
ELEMENTS: An individual component of a HTML document.
BROWSERS: An application that navigates to specific web pages.
CLIENT MACHINES: Device that requests pages from a server.
SERVERS: Programme that runs to serve the requests of other programmes.
IP ADDRESS: Unique number given to every device and machine.
ROUTERS: Route and direct web traffic accordingly.
HEXDECIMAL VALUES: Numerical system created for binary coded values in computing.
PADDING: Defines the space between an element border and the element content.
MARGIN: Defines the space around elements- top, right, bottom and left.
TAGS: Keyword assigned and linked to a piece of digital information.
CLASSES: Used to specify a style for a group of elements.
ID'S: Used to specify a style for a single, unique element.

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