Some “Need to Know” Web Design Definitions.
August 17th, 2010 - by BAWalkerIf you are the average consumer, words like bit-mapped images, Javascript and markup languages can sound a lot like Greek. Even worse are the acronyms, HTML, JPEG, and GIF.
Here’s a quick break down on a few of those “need to know” phrases, acronyms and words that make up the world of web design and development.
Hyperlinks – a hyperlink is a link that the reader can directly follow to another website or page of a website. Some links may take you further down the page you are currently on. It may be a highlighted word, picture, or other object to link you to the other page.
JPEG – or also JPG, stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. It is a common format for storing and saving photos and images on the Web.
GIF –Graphics Interchange Format is another common image format for saving and storing images on the web, most commonly used for webpage graphics like logos, etc.
HTML- stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the markup language used for building web pages. It creates the structural semantics for the page.
Javascript – is a scripting language used to enhance HTML pages, allowing a webpage to be interactive with the user. It runs on the “client-side” allowing it to interact with the user/visitor without having to do constant downloads from the website or webpage refreshes.
Flash – is a multimedia platform used to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images.
Bandwidth – in computer networking a Bandwidth is a system of measure of the amount of information that can be transmitted between a website visitor and the website host. Also seen as “bits per second” (bps) it is a measure of the speed of a webpage.
Those are just a few of the more common terms and phrases. The good news is if you choose to use a professional web developer its information that is good to know instead of need to know.







