Boot Camp

Glossary
Comps: In design, a comprehensive layout (usually shortened to comp), is the page layout
of a proposed design as initially presented by the designer to a client. It shows the
relative positions of text and illustrations as a rough draft of the final layout.
Content: The ‘stuff’ that makes up a web site – text, images, links, lists, navigation, media,
etc.
Content Management System (CMS): A number of templates corresponding to standard
‘types’ of information and web pages in a website that are designed so that several
users can update the pages though a simple web-browser-based interface.
Cascading Styles (CS): CS is a style language used to describe the presentation semantics
(the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language – HTML,
XHTML, and XML. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content
(written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including
elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS): A file with standardized style rules that add style (e.g.
fonts, colors, spacing) to Web pages.
Database: Store and organize data for later retrieval, often used for managing accounts
and user information in dynamic websites.
Deprecated: Code that has been superseded by the W3C by more efficient or accessible
alternatives.
Domain Name System (DNS): Identifies each computer as a network point on the Internet
using an internet protocol address systems to translate from domain name to IP and
reverse.
Doctype: Determines a layout model used in a web page and lets a browser correctly interpret
the coded tags.
Dynamic HTML (dHTML): Dynamic HTML is an extension to the standard HTML
language introduced by version 4+ browsers (Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer).
“Dynamic” makes reference to changing the webpage display in response to user interaction.
Elements: When writing the code that creates a webpage (authoring), content (text, images,
etc.), is marked-up into elements. Element types include: headings, tables, images
and lists.
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