6 Foot Web Design

Glossary

(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).

Doss, Glover, 6Foot Design