Category: Web Design & Development

Above the Fold

Above the fold is the upper half of the front page of a newspaper or tabloid where an important news story or photograph is often located. Papers are often displayed to customers folded so that only the top half of the front page is visible.

Anchor Text

The text within which a hyperlink is embedded that is visible to the user. For example, in the string, “WebInFive is a Limassol web design firm,” the anchor text is “Limassol web design firm”.

Apache Solr

Apache Solr is an open-source enterprise search platform written in Java from the Lucene project. Solr is a popular search platform for Web sites because it can search within PDFs and Word docs, as well as display recommendations for related content based on the search query’s taxonomy. Other features include faceted search, real-time indexing and …

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Application Program Interface (API)

API stands for “Application Programming Interface”. APIs let your product or service communicate with other products and services without having to know how they’re implemented. This can simplify app development, saving time and money.

Breakpoint

Used in software development, a breakpoint is the stopping place in a program that specifies when a certain change should occur. For example, in responsive web design, a developer would typically include at least three breakpoints: desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Cache

A cache is a reserved storage location that collects temporary data to help websites, browsers, and apps load faster. Whether it’s a computer, laptop or phone, web browser or app, you’ll find some variety of cache. A cache makes it easy to quickly retrieve data, which in turn helps devices run faster.   Takeaways How …

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Click-to-Call

When an HTML call link is embedded within text or an image, and, upon selection, the user is prompted to dial the phone number that is hyperlinked. An example of this would be the main office number for WebInFive.

Compass

Compass functions as a framework for CSS. Sometimes CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) can become overly complicated; Compass addresses this problem by offering ways to simplify the coding process.

Cookie

HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user’s computer or other device by the user’s web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, …

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CSS

Cascading Style Sheets; while HTML dictates the content of page, CSS regulates the format, including headers, footers, navigation bars, etc. While all of these elements can be created in HTML, such a method would have to be repeated on every web page. CSS on the other hand, is applied to all pages of a website.