Components

Your cheatsheet to website building!!

Introduction

As you delve into the world of the web developer, the amount of terms and labels you are familiar with will play a crucial role. Too much of what sounds like mumbojumbo can throw one off. After all, even the best secret agents are briefed before a mission. This chapter is aimed at making you, the reader, familiar with the terrain. Consider this a survey highlighting the lay of the land, in case you ever get lost. Treat it like a glossary: if ever you read something and draw a blank, refer back to this chapter and you should be good to go.

The more you know..

Consider the following a compendium of beginners’ essential web terminology, literally anything that has anything to do with websites, in alphabetical order.

Accessibility - This term refers to how easy it is to use a website, across different situations, say, on the various screen sizes of different devices, and for visually or otherwise technologically challenged users. This is an important component of a website emerging from the design choices.

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a code that assigns values to symbols and actions (of the keyboard) so that it can be mapped to what is displayed on the screen.

Attribute - Attributes are additional properties that can be specified inside the html tags of an element. They specify information about the element that can be crucial to its functioning, which are given by values following an ‘=’ sign. For example, the href attribute specifies the target address when using the tag, as in Digit Home .