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.

.NET

A Microsoft operating system platform that incorporates applications, a suite of tools and services as well as a change in the infrastructure of the company's Web strategy. Microsoft views this new technology as revolutionary, enabling Internet users to do things that were never before possible, such as integrate fax, e-mail and phone services, centralize data storage and synchronize all of a users computing devices to be automatically updated.

NAVIGATION LINKS

A small section of a website, most generally under the masthead or to one side of the webpage, that allows you to jump from one page to another using hyperlinks.

NAVIGATION STRUCTURE

The realtionship between pages of a website used to determine the links that will appear in the navigational bar.

NETIQUETTE

Informal rules of ethics on the Internet between users and websites.

NETWORK

A group of compuers that communicate together through hardwear equiptment.

NEWBIE

A user who is new to the Internet or computer application.

NEWSGROUPS

Usually known as forum boards, users post messages of a related subject on a site with users of similar interest.

NO FRAMES

An element used on framed pages stating what text will be seen by the user with a browser that doesn't support frames.

NODE

A computer connected to the Internet, most often used to desscribe a web server.