(Talk Nerdy to Me)
Computer geeks like to use a lot of Jargon to explain very simple ideas. Here we try and make those simple ideas… simple
Accessibility
A measure of how easy it is to access, read, and understand the content of a web site (via visual browser, speech browser, indexing robot, etc).
CSS-Cascading Style Sheets
A feature used in HTML that allows a designer to control how information is formatted on a page. more info.
CMS-Content Management System
A system used to manage the content of a Web site. This allows the content manager or author (who may not know HTML) to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster.
Domain Name
A unique name for your website. eg. 6footdesign.com. Must be registered with ICANN and must not be currently assigned to anyone else.
Graceful Degradation
While standards based design is supposed to render the same in any browser, the fact of the matter is that browsers are imperfect. When a browser encounters tags it doesn’t understand or can’t display, degradation takes place. Whether this degradation loses accessibility determines if it is “graceful”.
HTML-HyperText Markup Language
The language used to create documents on the World Wide Web.
Standards Based Design
A method of coding web pages based on XHTML and CSS. This has several advantages.
Web Hosting
Providing space on Internet servers for the storage of World Wide Web sites which can be accessed by others through the internet. 6 Foot Design is able to offer this service through a partnership with another hosting service.
XHTML-Extensible HTML
The successor to HTML, XHTML is a strict code syntax that is valid as HTML and XML. It allows a page to display correctly regardless of browser or even device (PC, PDA, mobile phone, etc).