Boot Camp

Web Authoring Boot Camp
appendix 1
Glossary of Terms and Phrases
Here are some basic phrases, terms, and acronyms you will encounter in this book and
your web authoring studies. This glossary is not exhaustive, though it looks like it.
Above the fold: The part of a webpage that is visible in the Web browser window when
the page first loads is described as being ‘above-the-fold’.
Accessibility: Design of websites that focuses on being accessible to people with different
kinds of disabilities and the difficulty they can experience due to physical and or technological
barriers.
Alt text: The alternative text (alt) attribute provides a text-only description of an image
on a web page.
Anti-alias: Aliasing is the distortion of a continuous line due to the nature of screen display,
which relies on a matrix of pixels. Anti-aliasing visually corrects this by introducing
additional colored pixels to give the impression of a continuous line or curve.
Authoring: The process of designing and, at a technical level, building a website.
Back-end: The information structure or application part of web authoring – programming,
database admin, etc.
Bandwidth: The amount of data that can be transferred over the network in a fixed
amount of time, such as bits per second (bps). A hosting server will allocate your website
a fixed amount of bandwidth usage within a regular period of time.
Blog (web log): A website comprised of date-related entries (or posts).
Browser: A web browser is an interface used to access the World Wide Web and to view
web pages. Examples include Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and others.
Character Encoding: Unicode and its parallel standard, the ISO/IEC 10646 Universal
Character Set together constitute a modern, unified character encoding (per Wikipedia).
This is to establish a universal set of characters that can be encoded in a variety of ways,
like readable HTML generated web pages.
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