Web Page Elements

A textual or graphical component in a web page.

More terms you might want to know

Margin

The space that an item has around it.

Affordance

Affordances describe a relationship between the environment and an animate object, classified as either positive or negative.

Items, such as a car that leads to movement, have a positive affordance. Things like stairs that lead upwards have a negative affordance because they will not allow for any other form of movement other than up or down if used accordingly.

Raster

Commonly used to describe a 2D graphic that is made up of an organized grid of pixels, in other words, a bitmap.

Embossing

A decoration technique used primarily on paper, metal, and some plastics in which ink or another printing medium is pressed into the material's surface to create a three-dimensional effect.

Glassmorphism

The use of light or dark objects positioned over colourful backgrounds. Blurred backdrops allow bright colours to come through and convey a sense of frosted glass.

Widow

The last line of a paragraph following the rest, or a single line in a paragraph that is out of place with the rest.

System Font

A type of font that comes pre-installed in an operating system.

ID

A selector that can be applied to any HTML element. ID should be used when designing for a single instance, such as using the id="main" attribute on an <h1> tag.

User Interviews

The act of gathering qualitative data about a person's thoughts and feelings related to a product.

Foil Stamping

The process of applying a thin layer of foil to paper coated with adhesive on one side.

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