Basic Glossary Of Web Design Terms For Non-Designers (Part 2)
There are so many jargon when it comes to web design that we’re breaking them up over a two-part series. In 45 Web Design Terms, we covered the terms organized alphabetically from letter “A” to letter “F”. In my final attempt to blow your mind with the glossary of web design, we present the left one.
H
Home Page
When visitors access your website, this is the first thing catching their eyes. The home page usually gives viewer an overall look of your company. Just like a saying that goes: “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”, first impression always matters, make sure it’s a good one!
Hosting
Hosting allows you to make your website accessible via the internet. This is the web servers where your website files are housed, served, and maintained.
HTML
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is the main language used to write webpages and used by your browser to display your site to the user. It allows the system to know what is supposed to be an image, and what is supposed to be text copy.
Hyper Links
Take this as an example: Designveloper. Clicking on that words and you will be taken to another web page. That’s how hyper links work. It’s a link from one web page to another, either on the same site or another one. Usually these are text or images and are highlighted in some way.
I
Infinite Scrolling
Its name already told it all! Infinite Scrolling refers to layouts with very long pages that require lengthy scrolling. It is actually a popular trend on the web design scene right now.
Information Architecture
It refers to the organization of the information, dealing with what pages go where in a website’s structure, what content is contained on each page and how each of these interact with other pages within the site
L
Landing Page
In the purest sense, a landing page is any web page that a visitor can arrive at or “land” on. Oftentimes, a special landing page is designed for a specific business purpose (usually in connection with an advertising or marketing campaign)
M
Mega Tags
Meta Tags are an HTML tag which provide information about a given web page such as description, author, copyright, etc. One of the reasons they are used is to assist search engines categorise a website correctly.
Mockup
Mockups are basically real size models of how your design is planned to look.
N
Navigation
The elements that appear on a website to take you to different pages. While it is most often thought of the “menu bar” located on the top or side of a website, it can also include text links at the bottom of the page.
P
Page Template
This term refers a unique page layout for a website. Your website can have multiple templates. For example, the homepage and contact page of a website look different and contain different elements, therefore they are two different page templates.
Plug-in
A plug-in is a bit of third party code that extends the capabilities of a website. It provides a way to extend the functionality of a website without having to redo the core coding of the site.
R
Responsive Design
Responsive design creates the layout magically adjusts itself to fit any sizes of the screen, whether desktop, mobile or smart phone.
Here is 5 Compelling Reasons Why Your Website Should Be Responsive!
RSS
It’s also referred to Really Simple Syndication. RSS allows content to be syndicated from one site to another. It’s most commonly used on blogs.
S
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
SEO is a crucial element of any website design and development and it is the method that help search engines (such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) understand the information on your website in order to rank higher in organic search results. This includes metatags and ALT attributes.
Single-page Sites
Basically, single-page sites are nothing but a single page without any additional pages.Instead of using main navigation, with single-page sites, the whole page exist on only one long page which offer a faster and clear reading experience.
