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| A document which can display text, graphics audio, video and other elements through a web browser. |
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| A language which means that special codes are used to define elements |
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| Special software that displays the page by reading the instructions in the web document. |
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| A computer that runs special software to serve up Web content by responding to requests. |
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| A collection of related web pages with a starting point or home page. |
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| Uniform Resource locator (URL) |
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| The address used for locating a document on the Web. |
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| Hypertext Transport Protocol (http) |
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| The underlying protocol for how content is communicated on the Web. |
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| Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses |
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| Internet Protocol (IP) Address |
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| A numeric string that identifies a device on a network |
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| A standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed |
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| World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) |
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| An international community that develops open standards for the Web. |
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| Web Accessibility initiative (WAI) |
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| A program for developing strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities |
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| A worldwide network of computers that communicate through http |
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| Putting an object inside another object; such as an HTML tag inside another HTML tag. |
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| Special codes which describe or define content in a Web document |
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| The opening and closing tags including the text in between. |
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| Provide HTML attributes with additional meaning and context. |
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| A language for defining how to display HTML elements |
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| The HTML element that you want to style. |
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| The Style property and value |
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| The style attribute you want to change |
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| The attribute you want applied to the property |
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| A link that specifies a complete path to a file, including the protocol, server, directors, filename |
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| A link that specifies the name of the file to be linked to as it relates |
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| Color values written with the # sign followed bt six digits using the numbers 0 to 9 and A to F to represent the amount of red, green and blue. |
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| Color values using the combination of red, green, and blue values ranging from 0 to 255 |
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| Refers to using existing techniques involving flexible grid layout, flexible images and media queries into a unified approach to web design. |
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| A simple count of the number of pixels across the entire width and height of a device |
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| A measure of screen density refers to the number device pixels on a physical surface. |
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| The tiniest physical unit in a display; also known as a phsical pixel |
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| The smallest unit of data in a raster image |
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| A W3C standard based on an optical reference unit that might be twice the size of a hardware pixel. This new pixel should look exactly the same in all viewing situations. |
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| The Number of device pixels on a physical surface; often measured in pixels per inch. |
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| The rectangular area (measured in pixels) that is viewable on a device screen. |
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| The width of the site is bound to a certain number of pixels |
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| The web design's dimensions are defined in percentages rather than pixels. |
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| 1 em equals the current font size; in a Web browser it equals 16 px |
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| Size is set in relation to surrounding elements |
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| A CSS specification that allows designers to target styles based on a number of device properties |
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| Scalable Vector graphics (SVG) |
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| Defines vector-based graphics that can be embedded directly into a Web page; SVG is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation. |
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| Type of graphic that does NOT lose quality when zoomed or resized. |
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