AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
Amaya – The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) web editor cum web browser.
Analogous Colors – Colors that sit beside each other in the color wheel.
Applet – A small application such as those typically provided with operating systems.
Attributes – Additional information that extend the capabilities of elements, such as to control fonts, border spacing or text alignment.
Backward compatibility – Remains usable in previous versions
Basic Tables Module – A set of instructions to define the basic table elements.
Bi-directional Text Module – A set of instructions that defines an element which can be used to declare the bi-directional rules for the element’s content.
Browser – A program to surf the Internet.
Citation – The quoting of an authoritative source for substantiation.
Client-side – Processing on local computer.
Client Image Map Module – A module defining browser side image map elements.
Complementary colors – Colors opposite each other in the color wheel.
Compression – Process of reducing redundancy of the image data in order to be able to store or transmit data in an efficient form.
Cookies – Collections of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web.
CSS - Cascading Style Sheet is made of rules which tell your browser how to present your webpage.
DHTML - Dynamic HTML is collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites.
Disclaimer – Legal notice of responsibilities not covered by the producer.
DOCTYPE - Document Type.
DOM - Document Object Model is a platform and language-independent standard object model for representing HTML or XML and related formats.
Dreamweaver – A commercial web building software by Adobe.
DTD - Document Type Definition is used to define the legal productions of a particular markup language.
Embedded styles – Style information stored in the HTML enclosed by the style tags.
External styles – Styles attached to a HTML document in a separate file.
GIF - Graphic Interchange Format.
GIMP - General Image Manipulation Program is an open source image editing software.
Glossary – A list of terms with accompanying definitions.
HTML - HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages.
Hypertext – A user interface paradigm for displaying documents and a way of organizing material that attempts to overcome the inherent limitations of traditional text and in particular its linearity.
Iframe – A HTML element that allows other HTML document to be embedded inside the main document.
Image map – A list of coordinates relating to a specific image created in order to link areas of the image to external locations.
In-Line Styles – Style declared in style attribute of a HTML tag.
IPIX - Interface Processor for Imagery Exchange is a virtual reality program.
Jargons – Technical words used by a group of people, usually a profession.
Javascript – A scripting language based on the concept of prototype-based programming.
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group.
Leading – The vertical space in a text block.
Markup – A method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document.
MathML – Mathematical Markup Language.
Nebulas – Clouds of gases in space.
Nesting – Containing elements within other elements.
Nvu – An open-source WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Object Oriented Programming – A programming paradigm that uses objects to design applications and computer programs.
Parsers – Component of Compiler which analyzes code.
PNG - Portable Network Graphics.
Podcast – A web-based audio broadcast acquired via an RSS feed, accessed by subscription over the Internet.
Primary Colors – Red, Green, Blue.
Reference – A note in a publication referring the reader to another passage or source.
Scripting – A computer programming language that is typically interpreted.
Secondary Colors – Colors that are obtained by mixing two adjacent primary colors.
Server – A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents.
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents.
Simpletext – The native text editor for the Classic Mac OS which allows for text formatting.
Site Map – A textual or visual index of a Web site’s contents.
Splash Page – A page which a viewer would see prior to entering the main page.
Split Complementary Colors – Sets of colors opposite each other on the color wheel.
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics.
Template – An electronic file that is pre-designed.
Transcript – Something transcribed in a written, typewritten form.
Typeface – A set comprising of an alphabet of letters, numerals, punctuation marks, ideograms or symbols.
Typography – Typography is the balance and interplay of letterforms on the page, a verbal and visual equation that helps the reader understand the form and absorb the substance of the page content.
URL - Uniform Resource Locator, a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet.
UTF-8 – UCS transformation format 8.
Validating – The process of checking if a document fulfills the current standards.
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium.
WEBDAV - Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning refers to the set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that the group defined which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.
Well-formed – A document is well-formed when it is structured according to the rules defined in Section 2.1 of the XML 1.0 Recommendation
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get.
XHTML - Extensible HyperText Markup Language is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but a stricter syntax.
XML - Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that supports a wide variety of applications.
