Here’s a short web design glossary of often used web design terminology that web designers use, which may come in handy when speaking with a web designer.

Some of which I’m sure you’re already familiar with.This post will be updated often, so feel free to bookmark it!

Accessibility – Context of a web site that is usable for people with disabilities, such as access for the visually impaired, hearing impaired, physically impaired and colour blind people.

Anchor – An anchor is a link that links within the same page of the web page.

Backlink – A backlink is a link from another website to your own. Links from related sites to yours can improve your ranking in search engines.

Blog – A blog is a website that an individual or group of users make frequent updates to, to record opinions and information on a regular basis.

CAPTCHA – A CAPTCHA is a part of a web form that attempts to validate that the person filling out the form is a person, and not a bot. Its objective is to reduce spam.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) – A style sheet language that defines the look and feel of HTML documents. Cascading Style Sheets can define fonts, colours, background images, layouts, and more.

CMS – A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. CMS allows publishing, editing and the modifying of content, whilst keeping design separate, making it easier for content authors to add content.

Ecommerce – Ecommerce is the sale and purchase of goods and services on the internet or through other electronic systems.

External link – External links or outbound links are links that link to another website on the internet.

Favicon – A favicon (short for favourites icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon is a small graphic that sits in your Favourites Menu after you bookmark a page.

Font – Typeface, defining the size, family, weight, and style of text.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) – A standard for the exchange of program and data files across a network.

GIF – A graphic format suited for flat colour images, often used for animated images.

HTML Editor – Software that allows you to create Web pages.

Host – Provides the infrastructure (servers and networking) for a Web site.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) – The language used to write Web pages. Its code is rendered by a browser to display Web page.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) – Allows Web browsers and Web servers to communicate.

Hyperlink – A graphic or piece of text that links to another web page.

Internal link – A link that links to another page of the same site or domain.

JPG or JPEG – Graphics file, usually used for photographs or images with many colours.

Meta Tag – A line of HTML coding that contains metadata about a webpage, which provides search engines with information about the website.

PNG – A raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – SEO is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s “natural” or un-paid (“organic”) search results.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) – The address of a web page or other resource on the internet.

WordPress – WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS).