Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers. Advertisement In a day in age where there are just as many freelancers as there are university educated designers, developers, and all around web gurus, it is amazing to me how much many of us don’t know or have forgot about our trade.
As a self-taught designer, I will admit to you upfront that there is a lot I don’t know when it comes to official jargon or certain aspects of things like typography and graphic design. It is these reasons that I call upon glossaries from time to time. These glossaries are also especially useful for those of you who are just getting started in the online business world. By understanding that basics of the core materials that make up whatever it is you are getting into, you will be able to have a better understanding of what’s going on in your industry, as well as be able to learn faster.
But glossaries aren’t just for brushing up on old terms or for calling upon while you learn new things. Typography Glossaries Usability, UX and IA Glossaries SEO Glossaries. Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources. Advertisement There are specialized terms referring to all sorts of aspects of web design.
For someone just getting started in web design, or someone looking to have a site designed, all the technical jargon can be overwhelming. Especially the acronyms. Below is a guide to industry terms that should get you well on your way to understanding what web designers are talking about. In addition, we’ve provided some resources for each term to give you more in-depth information.
Accessibility Basically, this is the ability of a website to be used by people with disabilities, including visually impaired visitors using screen readers, hearing impaired visitors using no sound, color blind people, or those with other disabilities. Stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Anchor Text The text a link uses to refer to your site.
Binary prefix. A binary prefix is a prefix attached before a unit symbol to multiply it by a power of 2.
In computing, such a prefix is seen in combination with a unit of information (bit, byte, etc.), to indicate a power of 1024. The computer industry has historically used the units kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte, and the corresponding symbols KB, MB, and GB, in at least two slightly different measurement systems. In citations of main memory (RAM) capacity, gigabyte customarily means 1073741824bytes.
As this is the third power of 1024, and 1024 is a power of two (210), this usage is therefore referred to as a binary prefix. In most other contexts, the industry uses the multipliers kilo, mega, giga, etc., in a manner consistent with their meaning in the International System of Units (SI), namely as powers of 1000. The ambiguity of using the same unit prefixes for two different representations within the same industry has caused some confusion. History[edit] Main memory[edit] Disk drives[edit]
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