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Responsive Design
A design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience across a wide range of devices.
API
Application Programming Interface is a set of protocols and tools for building software and applications that specify how software components should interact.
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation.
Grid System
A grid system in web design is a structure comprising a series of horizontal and vertical lines used to arrange content. It helps designers to maintain consistency and alignment.
SEO
Search Engine Optimization involves optimizing a website to improve its ranking in search engine results pages.
SSL/TLS
Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security are cryptographic protocols designed to provide communications security over a computer network.
Bootstrap
A free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains design templates for typography, forms, buttons, and other interface components.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the standard language used to create web pages. It provides the structure of a webpage.
jQuery
A fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It simplifies things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, and animation.
AJAX
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of web development techniques using many web technologies on the client side to create asynchronous web applications.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get editors are a system in which content (text and graphics) onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product.
CMS
Content Management System is a software that helps users create, manage, and modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge.
404 Error
An HTTP standard response code indicating that the browser was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested.
UX
User Experience describes how a person feels when interfacing with a system, including a website or web application.
CDN
Content Delivery Network is a system of distributed servers that deliver pages and other web content to a user based on the user's geographic locations.
Domain Name
A domain name is a human-readable address that points to the IP address of a website and consists of a series of character strings separated by dots.
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, defining how messages are formatted and transmitted.
JavaScript
An object-oriented programming language used to create interactive effects within web browsers.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in HTML. It handles layout, colors, and fonts.
UI
User Interface is the series of screens, pages, and visual elements—like buttons and icons—that enable a person to interact with a product or service.
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