vocab module 12# Flashcards
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goals (website)
are the results you want your website to accomplish within a specific time frame. Goals might include sales, number of visitors, or social media interactions
Objectives
are those methods you will use to accomplish the website’s goals.
purpose statement
website’s goals and objectives to ensure they meet the audience’s expectations and needs.
call-to-action (CTA)
a suggestion or offer that requires the website visitor to interact with the website by purchasing a product, making a donation, sharing or commenting on an article, requesting an appointment, signing up for an account, or registering for an event. or program.
target audience profile
is a research-based overview that includes information about potential website visitors’ demographic and psychographic characteristics.
subsidiary pages
provide detailed content and interest.
landing page
which is the page that a browser navigates to when you click a link in an ad, email message, or other online promotion from a different website.
Search engine optimization (SEO)
refers to tools to allow search engines to better find or index your website.
Meta tags
HTML specification tags that tell search engines what data to use.
storyboard
is a series of pages originally developed to present scenes graphically for a movie or television program.
breadcrumb trail (websites)
shows a visitor the path from the home page to the currently viewed page.
text link
should clearly identify its target, which is the web page or content to which the link points.
An image link
assigns a link to a visual element, such as an illustration or a photograph.
hosted website search provider
is another popular navigation tool for websites with multiple pages.
formal website usability test
an evaluation that generally takes place in a structured environment, such as a testing laboratory.
informal usability test
involves using a team of friends, family members, co-workers, or other interested parties to test a website’s navigation system or other website features and then report on their experiences.
text editor
software used to create plain (ASCII) text files.
HTML editor
is a text editor enhanced with special features that easily insert HTML tags and their attributes.
markup language
is a coding system that uses tags to provide instructions about the appearance, structure, and formatting of a document.
integrated development environment (IDE),
such as WebStorm, is a powerful web development tool to create and manage complex, interactive, and animated web pages; it also includes website design, publishing, and management capabilities.
content management system (CMS)
software that provides website creation and administrative tools that enable the management of web content development, including authoring, reviewing, editing, and publishing.
widget
is an object, such as a web app, that is embedded in a web page and provides access to resources that are stored elsewhere.
plug-in
third-party program that extends the built-in functionality of an application or browser
HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language
markup language for the web that defines the structure of web pages. Extensible Markup Language(XML) is a markup language that provides rules to define any data.