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Chapter 1 Child keywords Subcategories of parent keywords Collections panel Panel used to group assets located in different locations into a single collection Compact mode A mode with a smaller, simplified workspace window Content panel Panel where thumbnails of the files from the selected drive and folder in the Folders panel appear Export panel Panel used to optimize images by saving them as JPEGs for use on the web Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) standard Used by Adobe products, such as Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and Photoshop, and is usually stored with the file name Favorites panel Panel to quickly access folders that you designate as folders you use frequently Filter panel Panel used for filtering files to view in the Content panel Folders panel Panel to navigate through and select a folder, and review its contents Keywords Words you add to a file to identify, group, and sort files Keywords panel Panel that lists the keywords assigned to a file Metadata File information you add to a file with tags (words) that are used to identify and describe the file Metadata panel Panel that lists the metadata for a selected file Parent keywords Keywords that are a higher level than child keywords Path bar Where you see the path for the selected folder in the Folders panel that you are currently viewing Preview panel Panel where a preview of a selected file appears Sub keywords Subcategories of parent keywords Glossary Chapter 2 Adobe AIR Used for developing content that can be delivered with a browser or as a desktop application. Adobe Community Help A collection of materials such as tutorials, published articles, or blogs, in addition to the regular help content. Application bar Located above the Document window, it includes menu names, a Workspace switcher, and other application commands. Assets Subfolders in which you store all of the files that are not pages, such as images and sound files. Banners Images that appear across the top or down the side of the screen that can incorporate a company’s logo, contact information, and links to the other pages in the site. Blue drop zone Heavy blue line that appears when the panel is in the correct position to be docked. Child page A page at a lower level in a web hierarchy that links to a page at a higher level called a parent page. Code view Shows the underlying HTML code for the page. Coding toolbar Contains buttons you can use when working directly in the code and is not visible unless you are in Code view. Debugging Correcting errors. Deliverables Products that will be provided to the client at the product completion such as new pages or graphic elements created, and a timeline for their delivery. Design view Shows the page as it would appear in a browser and is primarily used for designing and creating a web page. Dock Collection of panels or panel groups. Document toolbar Contains buttons and drop-down menus you can use to change the current work mode, check browser compatibility, preview web pages, debug web pages, choose visual aids, and view file-management options. Document window The large area in the Dreamweaver program window where you create and edit web pages. Domain name A web address that is expressed in letters instead of numbers and usually reflects the name of the business represented by the website. Dreamweaver workspace The screen that includes all of the menus, panels, buttons, inspectors, and panes that you use to create and maintain websites. Dual Screen layout The layout you would choose when you are using two monitors while working with Dreamweaver. Files panel A Dreamweaver management tool that can be used to create folders to organize and store the various files for your website, and to add pages to your website. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) The process of uploading and downloading files to and from a remote site. Home page The first page that users see when they visit your website. HTML The acronym for HyperText Markup Language. Hyperlinks Images or text elements on a web page that users click to display another location on the page, another web page on the same website, or a web page on a different website. Image map An image that has been divided into sections, each of which serves as a link. Images Graphics, such as photographs, on a web page. In a website they are known as assets. Insert panel Includes eight categories of buttons displayed through a drop-down menu: Common, Layout, Forms, Data, Spry, InContext Editing, Text, and Favorites. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Provide space on their servers for customers to publish websites. IP address An assigned series of numbers, separated by periods, that designates an address on the Internet. Links Images or text elements on a web page that users click to display another location on the page, another web page on the same website, or a web page on a different website. Live view Displays an open document as if you were viewing it in a browser, with interactive elements active and functioning. Local root folder Folder which houses all the files for your website. Local site folder A folder that will store all the pages or HTML files for the site. Menu bar Located above the Document window, it includes menu names, a Workspace switcher, and other application commands. Menu bars Contain multiple links that are usually organized in rows or columns. Navigation structure The way that menu bars and other internal links are used on your pages. Panel Tabbed window that displays information on a particular topic or contains related commands. Panel groups Sets of related panels that are grouped together. Parent page A page at a higher level in a web hierarchy that links to other pages on a lower level called child pages. Path Location of the open file in relation to other folders in the website. Properties pane Lets you view and change the properties (characteristics) of a selected object. Property inspector Lets you view and change the properties (characteristics) of a selected object. Publishing The process of transferring all the files for the site to a web server so that it is available for viewing on the Internet. Related files Files that are linked to a document and are necessary for the document to display and function correctly. Related Files toolbar Located below an open document’s filename tab and displays the names of any related files. Remote server A web server that hosts websites and is not directly connected to the computer housing the local site. Remote site A site that has been published to a remote server. Rich media content Comprehensive term that refers to attractive and engaging images, interactive elements, video, or animation. Root folder Traditional name for the local site folder, that will store all the pages or HTML files for the site. Scope creep Making impromptu changes or additions to a project without corresponding increases in the schedule or budget. Set up Using the Dreamweaver Site Setup dialog box to assign your site a name and specify the local site folder. Show Code and Design views The best view for debugging or correcting errors because you can immediately see how code modifications change the appearance of the page. Standard toolbar Contains buttons you can use to execute frequently used commands that are also available on the File and Edit menus. Status bar Located below the Document window and shows the tag selector on the left. Style Rendering toolbar Contains buttons that you can use to display data for different platforms, such as a cell phone. Tag selector Shows the HTML tags being used at the insertion point location. URL Domain name. View Particular way of displaying page content. Web browser A program, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, or Mozilla Firefox, which lets you display web pages. Web server A computer that is connected to the Internet with an IP address. Website A group of related web pages that are linked together and share a common interface and design. Wireframe An illustration that represents every page in a website. Workspace switcher Drop-down menu in the top right corner on the Application bar that lets you change the workspace layout. XHTML The acronym for eXtensible HyperText Markup Language, the current standard language used to create web pages. Glossary Chapter 3 Adobe BrowserLab Tool that checks pages by simulating multiple browsers and platforms. Background color The color that fills the entire page. Body The part of the page that appears in a browser window. Broken links Links that cannot find their intended destinations. Cascading Style Sheets Sets of formatting attributes that you use to format web pages to provide a consistent presentation for content across the site. Clean HTML code Code that does what it is supposed to do without using unnecessary instructions, which take up memory. Code Inspector A separate window that displays the current page in Code view. CSS layout block Section of a web page that is defined and formatted using a Cascading Style Sheet. Default font Font built into the program. Default link colors Colors used by the browser to display text, links, and visited links that are built into the program. Description Short paragraph that describes the content and features of the website. External links Links pointing outside of the website. Focus group Marketing tool that asks a group of people for feedback about a product. Font-combination A set of font choices that specify which fonts a browser should use to display the text on your web page. Head content Includes the page title that appears in the title bar of the browser and some important page elements, called meta tags, that are not visible in the browser. Hex triplet An RGB value in hexadecimal format. Hexadecimal RGB value Value that represents the amount of red, green, and blue present in the color. History panel Records each editing and formatting task you perform and displays them in a list in the order in which you completed them. JavaScript A web-scripting code that interacts with HTML code to create dynamic content, such as rollovers or interactive forms on a web page. Keywords Words that relate to the content of the website. Line break Places a new line of text on the next line down without creating a new paragraph. Mailto: link An email address that users with questions or problems can use to contact someone at the company’s headquarters. Menu bar An area on a web page that contains links to the main pages of a website. Meta tags HTML codes that include information about the page, such as keywords and descriptions. Multiscreen Preview Feature that allows you to see what a page would look like if it were viewed on a mobile hand-held device, such as a phone or tablet. Navigation bar An area on a web page that contains links to the main pages of a website. Point of contact Place on a web page that provides users with a means of contacting the company. POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Resources) An evaluation system for web pages developed with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that provides summary information about a website. Rendered Drawn on the screen. Rollover Special effect that changes the appearance of an object when the mouse moves over it. Rule of thirds A design principle that entails dividing a page into nine squares and then placing the page elements of most interest on the intersections of the grid lines. Slider Can be dragged on the left side of the History panel to undo or redo steps. Step Each task listed in the History panel. Tags The parts of the code that specify the appearance for all page content when viewed in a browser. Templates Web pages that contain the basic layout for each page in the site, including the location of a company logo or a menu of buttons. Unvisited links Links that the viewer has not clicked yet. URL Uniform Resource Locator Visited links Links that have been previously clicked. White space Which is not necessarily white, is the area on a page that contains no text or graphicsGlossary Chapter 4 Bullet Small dot or similar icon that precedes a point on a list. Bulleted list Unordered lists that contain bullets. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Sets of formatting instructions, usually stored in a separate file, that control the appearance and position of text and graphics on a web page or throughout a website. Class type A type of style that can contain a combination of formatting attributes that can be applied to a block of text or other page elements. Code hints Lists of tags that appear as you type. Compound type A type of style that is used to format a selection. Declaration Consists of a property (such as font-size or font-weight) and a value (such as 14 px or bold). External style sheet Collection of styles stored in a separate file that control the formatting of content on a web page. ID type A type of CSS rule that is used to redefine an HTML tag. Inline style A style whose code is placed within the body tags of a web page. Internal or embedded styles Styles that are part of an HTML page rather than comprising a separate file. Numbered lists Ordered lists of items that are presented in a specific sequence that are preceded by sequential numbers or letters. Ordered lists Numbered lists of items that are presented in a specific sequence that are preceded by sequential numbers or letters. Related files Files that are linked to a document and are necessary for the document to display and function correctly. Rules Sets of formatting attributes for page content. Sans-serif Block-style characters that are often used for headings and subheadings. Selector Name of the tag to which the style declarations have been assigned. Serif Fonts that are more ornate and contain small extra strokes at the beginning and end of the characters. Tag type A classification by type of style used to redefine an HTML tag. Unordered lists Lists of items that do not need to appear in a specific sequence. Glossary Chapter 5 Adobe Bridge Image file management program that is used across the Adobe suite applications. Aligning Positioning an image. Assets panel Displays all the assets in a website. Background images Image files used in place of background colors. Borders Frames that surround an image. Camera Raw Unprocessed data, not yet ready to be printed. Favicon Short for favorites icon. A small icon that represents your site, similar to a logo, that appears next to the title of a web page in a browser. Favorites Assets that you expect to use repeatedly while you work on the site. GIF Graphics Interchange Format Graphics Non-text items such as pictures or design elements that add visual interest to a web page. Image placeholder A graphic the size of an image you plan to use. JPEG or JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group No right-click script JavaScript code that will not allow users to display the shortcut menu by right-clicking an image. Opacity Various degrees of transparency. PNG Portable Network Graphics Smart Object An image layer that stores image data from raster or vector images. Thumbnail image Small version of a larger image, used so that more images will fit on the page. Tiled image A small image that repeats across and down a web page, appearing as individual squares or rectangles. Glossary Chapter 6 Absolute path Path used for external links that includes the complete address for the destination page, including the protocol. Blogs Websites where the website owner regularly posts commentaries and opinions on various topics. Breadcrumbs trail A list of links that provides a path from the initial page you opened in a website to the page that you are currently viewing. External links Links to web pages in other websites or to email addresses. Facebook Social networking site containing lots of text, images, and videos. Google Video Chat Free application that you use to communicate live with other people through video conferencing, using a high-speed Internet connection and a web camera. GPS (Global Positioning System) Devices used to track your position through a global satellite navigation system, and are popular to use for driving directions, hiking, and map making. Hotspot A clickable area on an image that, when the user clicks it, links to a different location on the page or to another web page. Image map An image that has one or more hotspots placed on top of it. Internal links Links to web pages within the same website. Item The name for a link on a Spry Menu bar. Social networking site. Named anchor A specific location on a web page that has a descriptive name. Online communities Are social websites you can join, such as Facebook and Twitter, where you can communicate with others by posting messages or media content. Orphaned files Files that are not linked to any pages in the website. Path The name and location of the web page or file that will open when viewers click the element. Pinterest Social networking site. It is an online pinboard for sharing crafts, recipes, and other items of interest. Podcasts (Programming On Demand) Digitally broadcasted files that users can download and play. Relative path Type of path that references web pages and image files within the same website. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Way to share information with viewers of a site. RSS feeds Distribution of news stories, information about upcoming events, and announcements. Site map A list of all the website’s pages. Skype Free application that you use to communicate live with other people through video conferencing, using a high-speed Internet connection and a web camera. Social networking The grouping of individual web users who connect and interact with other users in online communities. Spry framework Open source code developed by Adobe Systems to help designers quickly incorporate dynamic content on their web pages, also called Spry. Spry menu bar One of the pre-set widgets available in Dreamweaver that creates a dynamic, user-friendly menu bar that is easy to insert and customize. State The condition of the item relative to the mouse pointer. Target The location on a web page that a browser displays when users click an internal link. Tumblr Popular blog where you can post and share text, photos, music, and videos. Tweets Short messages of no more than 140 characters that are posted on Twitter. Twitter Website where viewers can post short messages, called tweets of no more than 140 characters. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) Address of the destination page. Vodcasts/Vidcasts Video podcasts. Web 2.0 Describes the recent evolution of web applications that facilitate and promote information sharing among Internet users. Web cam Short for Web camera. Widget A piece of code that allows a user to interact with a program, such as clicking a menu item to open a page. Wiki Refers to a site where a user can use simple editing tools to contribute and edit the page content in a site. (named for the Hawaiian word for “Quick”.) Wikipedia An online encyclopedia which allows viewers to post new information and edit existing information on any topic. YouTube Website where you can upload and share videos. Glossary Chapter 7 Adobe Business Catalyst A hosted application for setting up and maintaining an online business. AP div tag Creates a container that has a specified, fixed position on a web page. AP element The resulting container that an AP div tag creates on a page. Behaviors Simple action scripts that let you incorporate interactivity by modifying content based on variables like user actions. Browser Compatibility Check (BCC) Feature to check for problems in the HTML code for CSS features that may render differently in multiple browsers. Cell padding The distance between the cell content and the cell walls. Cell spacing The distance between adjacent cells. Cell walls The lines inside the cell borders. Cells Small boxes into which you can insert text and graphics. Child containers Containers whose code resides inside a parent container. Columns Vertical arrangement of cells. CSS Layout Box Model Padding, margins, borders, etc. of a selected layout. CSS page layouts Containers formatted with CSS into which you place web page content, such as images, blocks of text, Flash movies, or any other page element. Delimited files Database, word processing, or spreadsheet files that have been saved as text files with delimiters such as tabs or commas separating the data. Delimiter A comma, tab, colon, semicolon, or similar character. Deprecated HTML codes that are no longer within the current standard and in danger of becoming obsolete. Div tags HTML tags that allow you to position elements next to each other as well as on top of each other. Exporting To save data created in Dreamweaver in a special file format that can be opened by other programs. Fixed layout Expresses all widths in pixels and remains the same size regardless of the size of the browser window. Fluid Grid Layout A system for designing layouts that will adapt to three different screen sizes: Mobile, Tablet, and Desktop. Grids Provide a graph paper-like view of a page. Guides Horizontal or vertical lines that you drag onto the page from the rulers. Importing To bring data created in another software program into Dreamweaver. InContext Editing (ICE) This feature sets up editable regions on web pages that users can make changes to while the page is being viewed in a browser. Inheritance To let the properties from the existing CSS rules format the content, rather than applying additional rules. Liquid layout Expresses all widths in percents and changes size depending on the size of the browser window. Merge To combine multiple cells into one cell. Nested A table or tab that is placed inside another. Nested table A table placed inside another table. Parent container A container with other tags falling between its opening and closing tags. Rows Horizontal arrangement of cells. Split To divide a cell into multiple rows or columns. Table caption Appears at the top of a table and describes the table contents. Table headers Placed at the top or sides of a table containing data. Tables Placeholders made up of small boxes called cells. Tracing image An image that is placed in the background of a document. WYSIWYG The acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and means that your page should look the same in the browser as it does in the web editor. XML A language that you use to structure blocks of information, similar to HTML. It uses similar opening and closing tags and the nested tag structure that HTML documents use. XSL Stylesheet information that formats the containers created by XML. XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) Interprets the code in the XSL file to transform an XML document. Glossary Chapter 8 Adobe BrowserLab An Adobe online service for cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility testing. Apache web server A public domain, open source web server that is available using several different operating systems including UNIX and Windows. BaseCamp A web-based project collaboration tool. Cloaked When a file is excluded from certain processes, such as being transferred to the remote site. Cloaking Marks certain files for exclusion from several commands, including Put, Get, Synchronize, Check In, and Check Out. Copyright Protects the particular and tangible expression of an idea, not the idea itself. Dependent file File that another file needs to be complete, such as an image or style sheet. Derivitive work An adaptation of another work, such as a movie version of a book. Design Notes Separate files in a website that contain additional information about a page file or a graphic file. Download The process of transferring files from a remote site to a local site. Fair use Allows limited use of copyright-protected work; depending on the purpose of its use, the nature of the copyrighted work, how much you want to copy, and the effect on the market value of the work. LAN A local area network. Licensing agreement The permission given by a copyright holder that conveys the right to use the copyright holder’s work under certain conditions. Metadata Includes information about a file such as keywords, descriptions, and copyright information. Permissions process The process of obtaining permission to legally use content (such as text, photos, music, trademarks, and merchandise) in a work such as a website or book. Public domain Work that is no longer protected by copyright and can be used however you wish for any purpose. RDS A connection type that is used with web servers using Cold Fusion. Secure FTP (SFTP) An FTP option that lets you encrypt file transfers to protect your files, user names, and passwords. Site definition Contains important information about the website, including its URL, preferences that you’ve specified, and other secure information, such as login and password information. Synchronize command A Dreamweaver command that compares the names, dates, and times on all files on a local and remote site, then transfers only the files that have changed since the last upload. Terms of use Rules that govern how a user may use a website’s text and media. Trademark Protects an image, word, slogan, symbol, or design used to identify goods or services. Upload To copy your files from the local version of your site to the remote host. Validate markup A Dreamweaver command that searches through the HTML code to flag code that could cause errors to occur with different language versions, such as XHTML or XML. VSS A connection type used only with the Windows operating system with Microsoft Visual SafeSource Client version 6. Web server A computer with software that enables it to host websites and is connected to the Internet with an IP (Internet Protocol) address so that it is available on the Internet. WebDav This type of connection is used with the WebDav protocol. An example would be a website residing on an Apache web server. ................
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