Monday, 28 January 2013

Web Design Project - Web Terminologies

ABBREVIATIONS & WEB TERMS

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) - link of the website

Voiceover Internet Protocol  (VOIP) - something to talk with, e.g. Skype

Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) - code that enables your site to the browser

Cookies - data stored in the users browser that notifies the site when the user next goes on the site and follows their activity (clicking on things, logging in, records of pages viewed)

Javascript, Perl, ASP, Java - plugins on the site that allow more functionality

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) - transfer files

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - describes the look of the site

Animation protocols for web e.g. Flash (FLV, SWF)- more interactivity on the site, used for videos, animation and games

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - The main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - A series of web accessibility guidelines pubilshed by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative

TYPES OF WEBSITE

Fixed - site that stays the same size

Fluid - increase/decrease elements on a larger screen

Elastic - sizing/elements on page based on typography (increase font size, site gets bigger)

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