Glossary

A website that is ADA Complaince has been designed and developed with ADA Standards so that it is as accessable as possible to people with disabilities, such as full blindness and color blindness.

An approach to software development that emphasizes incremental changes in design, development, research, and learning to maintain a web design or web development project.

The aggregated data that web designers and developers use to understand who their audience is and where they are coming from. Google Analytics is the most common service that can show you analytic numbers, but other services such as HotJar, SEM Rush, and HubSpot have their own versions of web analytic tools.

Functions and procedure that allow a application or website to access features, databases, or functionality of an operating system or 3rd party software.

Companies that primarily sell products and services to other companies. Often, these companies are manufacturers, distributors, business and tech consultants, or venture capital investors (among many others).

Companies that primarily sell products and services to end consumers such as super markets, restaurants, big box stores, and hotels.

1. In Widget Design: An unintended feature, error, or display of information in an application or website.
2. For Normal People: A small animal that crawls around like an insect or spider.

A report done by a QA representitive, user, or develope to document and fix any bugs in applications or websites.

Data storage that lives on servers online, instead of on your personal device. Common cloud storage solutions include Amazon AWS, Google Drive, and Dropbox.

Small pieces of software that tell a browser to do a specific task or remember a user. Cookies are commonly used to track people so ads can be displayed, but cookies can do many other things such as remember a user preferences for choices and locations.

The process of taking two seperate databases and merging them together.

The Domain Name System is a way for a computer to translate website IP addresses into more easily remembered websites domain names (such as lform.com).

The buying and selling of physical and digital goods online through economic transactions.

An interface made up of shapes, images, and text that allows a user to navigate through clicking navigational elements. Windows and OSX are both types of GUIs (pronounced "gooey").

A portable device, such as a smartphone or tablet, that can access the internet, applications, or both.

The act of reviewing, testing, and ensuring the quality of a product or service. In web design, QA is generally the role of finding, fixing, and reporting bugs to developers to ensure an app or website works as intended.

Subscription based software that fills a user need. Common SaaS services include G Suite, HubSpot, SharpSpring, the Adobe Creative Cloud, Dropbox, and Microsoft Office 365.

An interactive layout inteded to allow the user to do a task such as design a document, create a slide presentation, or navigate a website.

An application that primarily lives on the web, so no installation of storage of program files is nessesary to use.

A small application that does a specific task for a specific purpose. Widgets are intended to make people more productive and efficient.