404 Error

This message appears when URL has been removed or moved to another URL. Few other reasons for occurrence of this error can be
- Content was either deleted or moved without adjusting any internal links
- The URL was incorrectly written at the time of creation or typed in the browser.

Image ALT tags

Image ALT tags are short descriptions that can be assigned to images in a web page often used in HTML code. The Image ALT tag describes the appearance and function of the image displayed.

API (Application Programming Interface)

An API is a set of programming code that enables data transmission between one software product and another, which in simple language means it allows two applications to talk to each other.

CMS/Backend

Content Management System (CMS) is a software that helps users create, manage, and modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge like HTML. The best example for CMS is WordPress. This platform allows you to create a website with Zero knowledge about coding.

CMA/ CDA

Content management application (CMA) – It allows you to add and manage content on your site.
Content delivery application (CDA) – This is the backend, behind-the-scenes process that takes the content you input in the CMA, stores it properly, and makes it visible to your visitors.

Browser

A web browser is an application software for accessing the World Wide Web. It allows you to view webpages on your device and displays the necessary content from a web server.
Examples – Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari and Opera.

Bug

It is an error which prevents a website or an application from running. As a web developer you might often get list of bugs to be fixed to get the application running smoothly.

Caching

A cache is a temporary data that is stored in the systems’ storage mechanism that aids in site speed by storing relevant information on your system the first time you visit a website so that your computer does not have to reload that information each time you access the site again.

Call to Action

While scrolling through our Social Media pages we come across tabs/banners or buttons saying Donate Now/Book Now etc. This is nothing but Call to Action, it simple urges us to visit from one page to another and simply make an action.

Conversion

When a user takes a specific desired action using the Call to Actions placed on the website or an application like completing a web form, submitting a request for information, subscribing to a newsletter or making an e-commerce purchase, it is called as the conversion of a prospect.

Cookies

A small text file created by a website that is stored in the user’s computer either temporarily for that session only or permanently on the hard disk (persistent cookie). Cookies provide a way for the website to recognize you and keep track of your preferences. They are used to improve user’s experience and can increase the revisit numbers.

Domain Name

A website’s domain name is a unique ID or address of a website on the Internet. Every website can be identified by its IP addresses and the domain name is just user-friendly names to these IP addresses. Domains are split to two levels, for example in the website nuitsolutions.com, “nuitsolutions” is a part of the top-level domain and “.com” is a part of the second level domain.

DNS (Domain Name System)

It translates domain names to IP addresses so that the browsers can load internet resources. So, DNS Is just the phonebook of the Internet. We access information online through domain names, like if you type nuitsolutions.com web browsers interact through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and load the web page.

Favicon

It is the small icon of the company or the web page which displays title bar on the web browser. It is also known as the abbreviation for Favorite Icon.

Hosting

It refers to a web server where the files for your website are stored, served and maintained. Usually, a web server is a computer running web server software that is connected through the internet that allows visitors to access a website through an Internet connected web browser.

Front end

This is often known as client-side, as this is what is visible to the end user. As Back-end is everything that is going behind the scenes, in the same manner front-end is everything that is what end user sees and interacts with. Front-end languages include HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

HTTPS/SSL Certificate

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the primary protocol used to send data between a web browser and a website. HTTPS typically uses a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate to encrypt all communications between your browser and the website for added security.

HEX Colour

Also known as hex triplet is a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications to represent colors. The bytes represent the red, green and blue components of the color. One byte represents a number in the range 00 to FF (in hexadecimal notation), or 0 to 255 in decimal notation. This represents the least (0) to the most (255) intensity of each of the color components.

iFrame

An HTML structure that allows another HTML document to be inserted into an HTML page. The iFrame is set up as a window frame of a specified size that scrolls along with the rest of the page, but the iFrame’s content can itself be scrolled if it is larger than the iFrame window.

Meta Tag

It is an HTML tag that is used by search engines. Meta tags store information about a web page, such as its description, author and copyright. Search engines use this information to categorize websites and display information in search engine results pages (SERPs).

Navigation

This primarily refers to the menu bar located at the top of a website; it can also include textual links in the “footer” at the bottom of the page.

Page Speed

The length of the time taken for all the website contents to be displayed on the web page.

Resolution

It is a metric used to describe the size and quality of an image. It also refers to the display capabilities of a computer or mobile device — i.e. how many pixels a screen is able to display both horizontally and vertically. In a web development context, it’s important to think about how different images will render on different screen sizes.

Responsive Design

This ensures that the website viewed on any device, the user gets the same quality visual and ease of use. Regardless of whether they are using a computer, a tablet or a mobile phone.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

It means the process of improving your site to increase its visibility for relevant searches. The better visibility your pages have in search results, the more likely you are to garner attention and attract prospective and existing customers to your business.

Site Map

A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to crawl your site. A sitemap tells Google which pages and files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files.

jQuery

It simplifies the task of using JavaScript on your website by compacting several lines of JavaScript code into a single line. Rather than adding many lines of JavaScript code, one can simply take the “compact version” from the jQuery library.

Vector Graphics

The representation of a digital image as points, lines and other geometric entities. It is a fundamental structure for digital images. They are very space-efficient and they maintain all their detail when zoomed in and out because they are rendered in real-time

Wireframe

A visual guide to show the structure and content of a web page without any design elements. This helps to focus on the layout of content and hierarchy, without being distracted by design.

WYSIWYG

It stands for ‘What You See Is What You Get.’ It’s the interface inside a CMS that automatically applies styles to text and graphics and allows the user to see what the content will look like. This allows marketers to edit the content on their website without coding knowledge.

Bouncerate

It is single-page sessions divided by all sessions, or the percentage of all sessions on your site in which users viewed only a single page and triggered only a single request to the Analytics server. These single-page sessions have a session duration of 0 seconds since there are revisit after the first one that would let Analytics calculate the length of the session.

FTP

File Transfer Protocol is a set of rules that computers follow for the transferring of files from one system to another over the internet. It may be used by a business to transfer files from one computer system to another, or websites may use FTP to upload or download files from a website's server.