Web Design Glossary
New to Web Design? Are you just an administrator that wants to know what the heck your web designers are saying without asking them? This page will help. We’ve taken some of the most common web design acronyms and terms and defined them.
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| Term | Definition |
| Spam Bot | Also know as an e-mail harvesting bot, this is a program that surfs the internet finding as many e-mail addresses as it can. these e-mails are then sold or used by the bot owner to send spam to. |
| Form Spam | The practice of filling out the contact (or other) forms of web sites to send unwanted commercial messages. This is some times done manually but most often done by automated software. |
| Proof | A proof is the final draft of a web project, presented to the client for approval before adding the clients real content and publishing. It often contains “gibberish” filler text of some sort just to show what the layout will look like with text in it. |
| Form | A section of a web page that accepts input form the user. A form can be invisible and gather information from the user without their knowledge. In a Microsoft .NET technology, everything in the body section of a web page is usually a form. |
| Title | This text is included in a special tag in the HTML source of a web page that causes the a web browser to display the text inside the tag in the “Title bar” section of the web browser when the page is opened. |
| Server | A computer that holds the files that make up a web site. It servers them to web browsers when requested. If there is server side processing done, it does that before it “servers” them. All known as a Web Host. |
| SEO | Search Engine Optimization, is the art and driving traffic to web sites from search engines (the natural listings, not the advertisements). |
| Bounce | When a visitor arrives at a web site and only views one page. This usually means they didn’t feel the web site had what they were looking for or they found the information they were looking for easily and left. |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is used to control the format (colors, sizes, positions) of elements of a web site. One of the main advantages is that it’s stored in one place separated from the actual content of a web site. this make it easy to change one line and change the color of the text in every paragraph on your web site for instance. |
| Embed | A way to include something that is not within the HTML specification into a web page. A video for example. |
| Analytics | A system of counting the number of visits and information about the behavior of those visitors. |