ARTD 333 Web Page Design: Student Built Glossary of Terms
- Word
- Definition of the word
- Repeat
- And repeat the process
Bill Frietag:
- Repeat
- And repeat the process
- AIFF
- Short for Audio Interchange File Format, a common format for storing and transmitting sampled sound
- Bookmark (web)
- A marker or address that identifies a document or a specific place in a document.
- CSS Positioning
- Short for Cascading Style Sheets, a new feature being added to HTML that gives both Web site developers and users more control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These style sheets can then be applied to any Web page.
- Extension
- n DOS and some other operating systems, one or several letters at the end of a filename. Filename extensions usually follow a period (dot) and indicate the type of information stored in the file. For example, in the filename EDIT.COM, the extension is COM, which indicates that the file is a command file.
- HTML Filters
- A pattern through which data is passed. Only data that matches the pattern is allowed to pass through the filter.
- Java
- A high-level programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. Java was originally called OAK, and was designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes. Oak was unsuccessful so in 1995 Sun changed the name to Java and modified the language to take advantage of the burgeoning World Wide Web. Java is an object-oriented language similar to C++, but simplified to eliminate language features that cause common programming errors. Java source code files (files with a .java extension) are compiled into a format called bytecode (files with a .class extension), which can then be executed by a Java interpreter. Compiled Java code can run on most computers because Java interpreters and runtime environments, known as Java Virtual Machines (VMs), exist for most operating systems, including UNIX, the Macintosh OS, and Windows. Bytecode can also be converted directly into machine language instructions by a just-in-time compiler (JIT). Java is a general purpose programming language with a number of features that make the language well suited for use on the World Wide Web. Small Java applications are called Java applets and can be downloaded from a Web server and run on your computer by a Java-compatible Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- Navigation Bar
- The bar that lets you move around in the application in which you are using.
- QuickTimeVR
- QuickTime VR is Apple's award-winning photorealistic cross-platform virtual reality technology that makes it possible to explore places as if you were really there. All major applications that play QuickTime movies can also play QuickTime VR movies.At the intersection of commercial photography and new media technology, QuickTime VR moves the photographic image from the flat, 2D world into a more immersive experience, complete with 3D imagery and interactive components.Interactive content design and immersive imaging allow the viewer to explore and examine detailed virtual worlds using a computer and mouse, not cumbersome goggles, headsets or gloves.
- Style Sheet
- In word processing and desktop publishing, a style sheet is a file or form that defines the layout of a document. When you fill in a style sheet, you specify such parameters as the page size, margins, and fonts. Style sheets are useful because you can use the same style sheet for many documents. For example, you could define one style sheet for personal letters, another for official letters, and a third for reports.
- Visual Basic
- A programming language and environment developed by Microsoft. Based on the BASIC language, Visual Basic was one of the first products to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces. Instead of worrying about syntax details, the Visual Basic programmer can add a substantial amount of code simply by dragging and dropping controls, such as buttons and dialog boxes, and then defining their appearance and behavior.
Jeremiah Duehring:
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- Adaptive Palette
- generates a color table based on the part of the color spectrum that represents most of the color in the original image.
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- Block-level Tag
- is used to format whole blocks of text.
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- Content Negotiation
- is for messaging services based on E-mail. The server can receive information about client.
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- Event Handler
- , which is the event name with the word 'on' at the beginning (onload), allows you to define what should happen when a particular event is detected.
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- HTML
- , Hypertext Markup Language, used to contain the whole HTML document. It defines the start and end of the entire page, a cross-platform text-formatting system for creating web page. It has two essential features - hypertext and universality.
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- InterNIC
- is an organization which is assigned to the user an internet addresses. The user register his/her address with InterNIC as both a name, or domain, and a number, or IP address or IP number.
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- Multicasting
- is a communication multipoint.
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- QuickTime
- is, like AVI, a video and animation system.
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- Structural Tag
- is an appearance controlled by the browser's preferences.
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- Videoconferencing
- is an end-to-end video communication that allow you to meet face to face with multiple customers, employees, or vendors around the world.
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Joel McKinney:
- Bit Depth
- Sampling of an analog signal consists of two parts, the sampling rate, how often you take measurements (usually a value given in mhz) and how detailed your measuring device is. Take the analogy of a ruler mapping a puddle: the more places I measure the more detailed my map will be. That is the sampling rate. Also, however, the more detailed my ruler is, eighth inch marks rather than quarter inch marks, the more detailed my map will be, this is bit depth.
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- Client Side Processing
- This term refers to calculations that are carried out by the user's computer rather than the server that hosts the web page.
- ECMAScript
- Scripting language that conforms to ECMA standards. Both JavaScript and ActionScript (Flash) are based on ECMAscript.
- Hexadecimal
- A base-sixteen numerical system used to define specific colors for RGB output (what you see on your monitor). The numbers, in pairs, represent the specific value of red, blue, and green. Any color that can be shown on your monitor can be defined in hexbin.
- Internet
- The loose conglomeration of web routers and servers and the infrastructure that supports communication between them.
- MIDI
- Musical instrument Digital Interface, this is a set of blueprints for sound generation. Rather than recording the wave forms (and creating a very large file) MIDI tells what note to play, what duration to play it for, and what voice to play it in.
- PNG
- New image file type that supports transparency and is free. Intended to replace GIF format.
- Start Tag
- The opening tag. Text between opening and closing tags will be affected by the tag.
- Variable
- A value that can be changed. For example, in the BODY tag the TAG ATTRIBUTE "BGCOLOR" can have a value of "red" or "AA0036".
- z-Index
- In three dimensional space (cyber or real) the z-axis refers to forward and backward depth, as opposed to height (up and down depth) and width (right and left depth). The three axes are called x, y, and z although some computing systems assign the names to the x and y axes differently.
Kristina Sabby
- Attributes
- Contains information about the data in the document, without being that data itself. This is usually in quotation marks.
- Class (in HTML)
- You can give your HTML elements either a unique name or one that identifies them as belonging to a particular class.
- Downloadable Font
- A font that is copied. The advantage to these fonts is that they can be erased. The disadvantages is they take disk space and printer memory.
- Gopher
- A system that pre-dates the world wide web for organizing and displaying files on the internet servers. A gopher server presents its content as a hierarchically structured list of files.
- Inline Frame
- This allows you to mix text, graphics, and a frame all on one page.
- Map File
- A file showing the structure of a program after its been compiled.
- Transparency
- This allows you to create complex layouts by making one image move behind another.
- WYSIWYG
- "what you see is what you get" A myth with using different browsers. Netscape, and Internet Explorer have two different looks when you view your page.
- Server-Side Processing
- Anything that happens on the web. These computations that your computer does sends it to the server to crunch numbers (code and Java) instead of sending the information to the client-side server.
- PGML
- A 2D graphics language meant to satisfy both the Web's scalable lightweight vector graphics needs and the precision needs of graphic artists who want to ensure that their graphic designs appear on end user systems with precisely the correct fonts, color, layout and compositing that they desire.
Jesse Heinz
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- Animated GIF
- A single file that contains a collection of images that are shown in sequence, one after another.
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- Browser
- Software used to view a web page.
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- Design Specifications
- A detailed plan.
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- Forum
- An open place where information and ideas are freely exchanged.
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- Hyperlink
- Linking to another web page or practically anything else on the internet.
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- Java Virtual Machine
- It is the software that allows you to run Java applets.
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- Object Based Graphics
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- Sample (verb)
- To judge the quality by sampling.
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- Subsetting (fonts)
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- VRML
- The developing standard 3D modeling language for use on the internet.
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Eliot Lucas
- API
- This is an abbreviation for "Application Programming Interface," by which an
application program (a complete program that performs a specific function
directly for the user) can access the computer's operating system.
- Cache
- RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually
updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different
characteristics .
- Dithering
- A technique that is used to add more colors or shades of gray to an existing
image, the goal being to improve the appearance of the image. Can be thought of
as the inverse to quantization.
- Frameset
- This element represents the meta structure of a document using frames. By
replacing the BODY element in the document structure, the FRAMESET element
defines the document layout in terms of areas of the screen containing
sub-document URLs.
- Internet Imaging Protocol
- information is transferred over the Internet via CGI or server modules. A user
then makes a connection through TCP/ IP sockets.
- JScript
- A scripting language developed by Microsoft to enable Web page designers to
design interactive sites. Although it shares many of the features and structures
of the full Java language, it was developed independently. Jscript can interact
with HTML source code, better enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with
dynamic content.
- OpenType
- A font format jointly developed by Microsoft and Adobe Systems, Inc. to allow
for the addition of Type 1 (PostScript) font data to a TrueType font.
- Scripting Language
- A scripting language differentiates itself from other typical languages in that
they are usually simpler to learn and use as well as not needing to be compiled.
The language is interpreted at run-time so you can execuate instructions
immediately.
- TCP/IP
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the basic communication
protocol that is the foundation of the Internet. All the other protocols, such
as HTTP, FTP, and Gopher, are built on top of TCP/IP.
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium. An international industry consortium formed to lead
the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that
promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
Gwen Meyer
- AppleScrip
- Is another word for a program, just like Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop.
- Cascading Style Sheet
- Is made up of one or more rules, each rule is comprised of a selector, which identifies the parts of the web page that should be affected.
- !doctype
- The kind of markup that describes the information. Lets browsers know what to expect.
- FTP
- (file transfer protocol) Files that you want visitors to be able to download, newsgroups and messages or creating a link to an email address.
- Indexed Color
- When pixels aren't assigned color values directly. Instead the colors values are stored in a palette also known as Clut or color look up table that contains up to 256 colors.
- Liquid Audio
- Music file format and the company that developed and owns the format. Liquid audio files are copy-protected, and mostly unavailable on file-sharing networks.
- Page Architecture
- Layout broad categories as soon as uncovered. Use cross links judiciously and consistently. Promote a few standard page elements. Provide for users in different cognitive states with different purpose styles and pre-existing knowledge.
- Search Engine
- Automated keyword finder. General web search engines scour web pages for keyword matches. In music search engine helps members find music by artist, song title, and album title.
- Telnet
- A terminal emulation program for TCP/IP networks like internet. Program runs on your computer and connects your PC to a server on the network. You can enter commands through the Telnet program. d
- WAIS
- (Wide area Information System) Supports retrieval of documents from databases via full-text search.
Jeremy Smith
- Avatar
- A graphical icon that represents a real person in a system.
- Client
- A client is an application that runs on a pc or workstation and relies on a server to perform some operations.
- DTD
- Short for document type definition. A DTD states what tags and attributes are used to describe content in an SGML, XML or HTML document, where each tag is allowed, and which tags can appear within other tags.
- Head
- A part of the webpage containing the title and certain page attributes but otherwise nothing else displayed in the document.
- Inline Graphic
- A graphic embedded in a text container, causing the graphic to behave (more or less) as if it were a single text character.
- MBONE
- Short for Multicast Backbone on the Internet, MBone is an extension to the Internet to support IP multicasting -- two-way transmission of data between multiple sites.
- Phrase-markup tag
- A phrase-markup tag manipulates the text of a document.
- SGML
- Short for Standard Generalized Markup Language, a system for organizing and tagging elements of a document.
- URL
- Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
- XML
- Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.
Class Roster:
- Richelle R. Braun
- Nicklaus C. Davis