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Web Design Glossary Part 1

30 May

It is common case where clients aren’t aware of certain terms you may use in presentation of company as custom web design service provider. Sometimes it is necessary for you to use certain technical terms in content of your web page which are little difficult for readers to understand hence have significant meaning on their use. Explaining all those terms in glossary is a good option where readers can have detail explanation on each technical word used in content. This post is the fist in sequence which we would post in future to include all possible important terms for our clients at web design Chicago Company.

SEO Friendly Web Design: it is the most common term used by web design service provider. As important of search engine optimization has been growing for website promotion, a website must get designed with keep in mind the design rules specified by major search engine. Building design with following those rules called SEO friendly website design.

Browser Compatibility:  Testing design of website in different web browsers and implementing changes to deliver the same experience is called developing browser compatible website. As different browsers have different rules, designers have to keep in mind those rules for creating same visual appearance in different browsers.

Mobile Friendly Website: As Smartphone has also become the medium of accessing web, it is good practice to design website by keep in mind the attributes of mobile browser and device like screen size of the mobile and mobile browser used and implementing changes in design which delivers good visual experience to mobile users instead of displaying the same website in mobile phone. Designing a separate layout especially for mobile device is primary requirement for creating mobile friendly website.

W3C Validation: Each thing you see on internet must follow the ideal web standard specified by World Wide Web for publishing on the web. Your website should also follow the same HTML document standard. Validating your website with these CSS and HTML standard called W3C validation. It helps in evaluating possible errors in your coding and search engine also gives more priority to websites which are W3C validated.

Custom Web Design or Web Template: There are main two ways to implement design, either designer design the website or layout form base and create entire layout on your own or he may make modification in design created by another person which is called web design template. It is easier to modify web design template and use the same structure in design compare to creating custom website design where designer has to brainstorm on each and every small to big elements in design.

Above are some basic terms in web design. In next part we would start with more technical terms which are difficult to understand.