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Web Design Glossary

Explore some of the most common terms related to website design and development. Click on a term to see its definition and learn more.

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301 Redirect

a

Accessibility

Action

API

ASCII

Ajax

b

Body Copy

Brand Guide

Brandmark

Breakpoint

Breadcrumb

c

Call to Action (CTA)

Class

CMYK

Composition

Compression

Content Management System (CMS)

Contrast

CSS

d

Design System

Developer

DIV

DOM

e

Embed

f

Font

font-family

font-size

font-style

font-weight

Footer

Front End

Favicon

Focal Point

g

GIF

GitHub

GPL

Grid

h

Heading

Headless CMS

Hero

Hex Code

Hierarchy

Homepage

HTML

Hue

i

Infinite Scroll

ID

IDE

iFrame

Imagery

Import

Icon

j

JavaScript

Jetpack

JPG

jQuery

k

Kerning

l

Lazy Loading

letter-spacing

line-height

m

Meta Tag

Metadata

Mockup

n

Navigation

Navigation Menu

o

Open Source

Opacity

p

Persona

PHP

PNG File

Propagation

Prototype

Proximity

r

Rasterization

Resolution

RGB

Rule of Thirds

Responsive Design

s

Saturation

Scale

Search Bar

Security Key

Semantic Markup

Serif/Sans Serif Font

Slider

Splog

SVG

t

text-decoration

TIFF

Typography

u

Unicode

Usability

User Interface

v

Vector File

Visual Balance

w

WAMP

White Space

Wireframe

WooCommerce

WYSIWYG Editor

Wordmark