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.

Query

A search request submitted to a database such as the search engine or directory database to find a particular piece of information or all records that meet the search criteria.

Quicktime

technology created by Apple that allows video, digitized sound and music, 3D, and virtual reality to be viewed on your web site. It's available for Macintosh and Windows-based computers.

Quirks Mode

Using an incomplete or outdated DOCTYPE - or no DOCTYPE at all - throws browsers into "Quirks" mode, where the browser assumes you have written old-fashioned, invalid markup and code per the depressing industry norms of the late 1990s. In this setting, the browser will attempt to parse your page in backward-compatible fashion, rendering your CSS as it might have looked in IE4, and reverting to a proprietary, browser-specific DOM .