TGM Designs

TGM Designs created this glossary of web design and related terminology to help our clients to know and understand what services we provide. The terms cited are used regularly throughout Web development and design documentation. If you are starting a new website project then you will find these terms very helpful. This glossary's intention is to be relevant and beneficial to your understanding rather than be comprehensive.

HEADER

The top half of a document, webpage, graphics, e-mails or messages.

HELPER APPLICATION

A plug-in or program that helps the browser to display or work with files that the browser cannot support on it's own.

HEXADECIMAL

Numbers in HTML and CSS as well as other computer software programs to represent CMYK and RGB colors. There are 216 web safe hexadecimal colors, those there are many more colors that can be used. Each byte within a colors represent the red, green and blue levels of a color. Each byte is read in a number range from 00 to FF (a hexadecimal notion) or 0 to 255 (a decimal notion). The system uses the numbers 0 through 9 and the letters A through F in any combination of six to represent the color. For instance, white's hexadecimal color is #FFFFFF whereas black's hexadecimal color is #000000. (White's decimal color is 255,255,255 whereas black's decimal color is 0,0,0.)

HIERARCHY

A top down organizational structure.

HITS

When a file is retrieved from a web server by a browser it is registered in the access logs as a hit. Each hit can be an instance of how many users have visited your site or website page loads.

HOME PAGE

The introductory page or index page to a website.

HORIZONTAL SCROLLING

Scrolling sideways within a web browser (from left to right instead of the normal vertical scrolling which scrolls up and down). When this bar shows up, it means there is an element within the webpage that is wider than the monitor's current resolution.

HOST

An ISP's computer that is used to connect to and access the Internet.

Hot Linking

Process by which one links to an image stored on one site yet it appears on one or more other sites. If done without permission, this is considered unethical since one is using bandwidth they are not paying for.

HTML

Acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). A cross platform formatting system used to create webpages including text, graphics, sounds, animation and more. HTML is read by the browser and rendered into what the user sees on screen.

HTML EDITOR

A software program used to edit HTML pages that allows you to edit, add or take away HTML elements. See also: WYSIWYG.

HTTP

Acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A common protocol for moving hypertext across the Internet. Adressing other webpages usually beings with "http://" and is followed by the domain name or IP address. The "http://" is not always necessary to access a webpage through your browser.

HTTP CLIENT

A program that requests a service from a web server.

HTTP SERVER

A program that provies services from a web server.

HUE

The name of a distinct color of a spectum.

HYPERLINK

Hyperlinks (or links for short) are a feature of HTML that allows one document to be "linked" to another location. A hyperlink appears most commonly in the form of a text link, but graphics and video may also be hyperlinks.

HYPERTEXT

Any text that a user can click on (words or phrases) which causes another document to be retrieved.

Hyper-V

A hypervisor-based Windows Server virtualization platform that is included as part of Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V enables you to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server using a broad range of services ranging from resource-intensive services like Microsoft SQL Server to third-party applications that may run on previous versions of Windows or Linux. Also known as Viridian.