Website Design Glossary
Website design is a major factor in whether visitors to a website stay and look around, or click away.
It includes the internal navigation, the color schema, font selection and a myriad of other considerations.
Natural SEO SEM has compiled many of the website design terms that may be of use to our customers and to our website visitors. We hope you will find them to be of use in better understanding website design and design features.
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Website Design Glossary
Widow
A last line of a paragraph, shorter than a full line, that appears at the top of a webpage. See Orphan.
Wiki
A quick way for creating and editing documents through collaberative efforts.
WINZIP
A computer program for compressing and decompressing files.
Wireless Markup Language
A standard for information services on wireless terminals like digital mobile phones or pocket PCs, based on XML - similar to but stricter than HTML.
WMA
An audio data compression technology from Microsoft.
WML
See Wireless Markup Language.
World Intellectual Property Organization
A UN organization responsible for promotion of the protection of intellectual rights throughout the world.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get (pronounced whizzy-wig). Document creation and editing where the creator sees the document as it will appear in the final format. A web editor is used to create webpages instead of coding HTML. Knowledge of HTML is not necessary, as drop and drag is used while the application codes the HTML behind the scene.
Xenu
A tool used to find broken links on a webpage.
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Natural SEO SEM hopes that you find this Website Design information useful in understanding the Internet - and your place in it.