Term
|
Definition
| summarizing visualization designed to provide a lot of information at one glance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A proportional typeface contains glyphs of varying widths |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colors, styles (boldface, italic), sizes and special features (such as hyperlinks) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Groups of text aligned horizontally in a graph |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The amount of space between each cell in a graph |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The amount of space within a single cell in a graph |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Groups of text aligned vertically in a graph |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Page context is placed in columns |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A layout in which page content is arranged into sections |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A layout in which a page is broken into a number of pieces which are then reassembled like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A designer defines each table element size in absolute units eg. px, in, em, pt. It has the advantage of giving more precise control |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A page layout where some or all of the elements are sized in relative units eg. 50%. The benefit of this is that page elements conform to any sized browser window |
|
|
