Terminologies used in Website Design

As soon as you take even the smallest step into the world of web design you start hearing “Can You share with the URL of your website?”, “What web hosting do you want to use?” and you’re left wondering what it all means. We know that it can be pretty overwhelming trying to figure out all the key web design definitions and terms, especially if it’s all new.

Lets begin to look at the commonly used terms in web design;

• A website. Is a collection of related web pages.
• A webpage. Is a document on a website, which can contain text, pictures, sound, and video (multimedia). It is also defined as a document available on the web that is created using HTML and viewed with in a web browser. Each webpage has a unique address called a URL.
• A web designing program is a computer program used to create, edit and update web pages and websites. Examples include; HTML Editor, Web Studio 5.0, HTML-Kit Tools, Web Easy Professional, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Desktop Publisher, Microsoft FrontPage, among others.
• A web browser. Is application software which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information on a Web page (Examples: Opera, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc)
• Hyperlink is a text or graphic on a webpage that when clicked on allows a user to quickly navigate from one document or website to another.
• Home page (Index Page) is a welcome page that identifies the website and contains links to other pages of the site.
• A Tag HTML tags are codes, of keyword elements enclosed by the lesser than (<) and greater than (>) brackets, which give commands to a browser. eg <u> is an HTML tag that tells the browser to underline text on the webpage.
• A web designer/webmaster is a person responsible for developing web pages and maintaining a website.
• Web publishing is the development and maintenance of websites, i.e. availing the website on the World Wide Web. This process involves; web designing, website hosting and website content management.
• Web hosting is a service that allows individuals and organisations to have their own websites accommodated on a particular web server from which they are accessed by others on the World Wide Web.
• Bookmark A bookmark is an anchor tag that defines and links to a specific location in an HTML document. Bookmarks are useful when you have long pages that are divided into logical sections, or when you want to jump from one central list of links to multiple locations on a page.
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP) The protocol used for copying files to and from remote computer systems on a network using TCP/IP, such as the Internet.
• HTML(Hypertext Markup Language) A tagging system used to code documents so that they can be published on the World Wide Web and viewed with a browser.
• HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) The client/server protocol used to access information on the World Wide Web.
• HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is a combination of HTTP with the SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server. HTTPS connections are often used for payment transactions on the World Wide Web and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems.
• DOMAIN NAME The unique name that identifies an Internet site. A domain name is an identification label that defines a dominion of control on the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
• IP ADDRESS :An (Internet Protocol address) is a numerical label that is assigned to any device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes.
• JPEG / JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) A graphics format used for photos and other graphics with more than 256 colors.
• URL(Uniform resource locator) The alphanumeric address that Web visitors use to locate your Web site on the World Wide Web.
• WEB MAILPROVIDER A hosting company that primarily provides end users access to internet services such as e-mail.
• WEB SERVER A computer that stores and delivers (serves up) websites and their related files for viewing on the Internet.
• WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) implies a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document is being created.

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Of course, it’s not necessary to know all of these web design definitions and terms to start designing a website—either on your own or with the help. Ultimately, web design is a learning process, and the best designs are iterative works of art that are constantly being improved as you learn new things