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Dreamweaver Vocab
Vocabulary words for the Dreamweaver exam and Honors Web Design
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wireframe | version of a website that depicts the navigational concepts and page content. |
| Padding | - a property that allows the author to specify the amount of space that will be inserted between the element border and element content |
| absolute positioning | one element is positioned according to another element |
| consistency | easy to navigate a website; consistency of a site |
| usability | when a website is easy to use for customers; decreased download time,etc. |
| hyperlink | a highlighted image or text that connects a document to another document |
| pathname | a string of characters that describes what directory the file is in and name of the file |
| absolute link | contains the full URL |
| relative link | a link that isn’t complete and can only link to an area on the site, not an external source |
| multimedia | media types like sounds, movies, images, etc. |
| accessibility | degree of which a website is usable by different people , or like people with disabilities. |
| embedded link | like a hyperlink, but an embedded link jumps to a specific part in a file |
| readability | Readable text affects how users process the information in the content |
| site structure | overall layout of a website |
| compatibility | compatibility of a website with browsers and platforms |
| latent behavior | behavior of which the site user is unaware; web analytics |
| root folder | folder where the site contents are stored |
| cache | cached files are saved or downloaded by a web browser, so the page loads faster the next time the user visits the site |
| FTP | stands for file transfer protocol. It’s the process of uploading and downloading files to and from a remote folder |
| local host | the copy of the site on your machine |
| remote site | the copy of the site online |
| site map | visual model of a website’s content that allows the users to navigate through the site to find the info they are looking for |
| get files | returns the names of files in the specified directory |
| put files | after editing a file, you will “Put” it to publish it and make it available on the server |
| tag | markup of characters that show the start or end of an element |
| Source code | a text listing of commands to be compiled or assembled into a computer program |
| URL | - Stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It’s the address of a document or other resource on the internet |
| Align | putting things in relative position |
| Design view | gives an idea of how a webpage will look on the web. Provides a more accurate depiction |
| Code view | shows the underlying HTML code for the page |
| Code and Design view | combination of code and design view |
| Live View | previewing the web pages as it would appear in a browser without leaving Dreamweaver |