Glossary

I have decided to write a glossary for those who might be confused with certain terms and technobabble in the PSD coding space. This list will grow periodically with new terms and more buzz words so you can better understand how we do our job. As your design coding service, CodeFromPSD.com will make every possible attempt to inform you in the easiest to understand terminology. Just let us know if there is something you do not understand.

PSD

Adobe’s proprietary design file format. Of course there is also AI from adobe illustrator but as of recently, the gold standard in design file formats is the .PSD file.

HTML

HyperText Markup Language – The web standard markup language that is part of the structure of a website. We are currently in Version 4, Although Version 5 is around the corner and is nothing like it’s previous version. HTML 5 will allow certain interactive elements to be placed on your website, such as video.

XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language – A newer, extended version of HTML. XHTML improves on the HTML standard and adds stricter standards for certain fields and attributes. The current version is 1.0, either strict or transitional. At CodeFromPSD.com, we use 1.0 Strict to keep the highest and best compliance standards.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets – CSS is used to build the style component of a web design’s structure. A Must-Have skills in today’s web design industry, CSS has a class and id based system to label certain HTML elements of a webpage and creating certain attributes, such as colors, backgrounds, font-sizes, font groups and even interactive drop down menus. There is constant additions added to the newest version, CSS3 which is being used, but many ideas are in draft as we speak…

WordPress

WordPress is a Content Management System that is widely used and is a swiss army knife for developers who need a website fast and seamlessly. Associated primarily as the engine for blogging, WordPress can be used in numerous situations, such as regular content websites, blogs, review sites, landing pages, membership sites, communities and even e-commerce as well! That is why us developers call WordPress a swiss army knife. The sky is the limit with the expandability with custom themes and plugins. CodeFromPSD.com also does plugins as well, for a price depending on what you want and your timeline…

Table Based Design

For the longest time, data on a website or an overall structure was based on using HTML table tags with fixed heights and widths. This was good for a while but became inefficient and obsolete. More and more developers prefer a div based tableless code structure.

Tableless Design

Building the bones, a ‘structure” of the website using DIV’s and no fixed width/height tables that were the previous standard. DIV’s allow for expandability and faster loading times, not only that but customizable and easier once the developer learns how to do a tableless based layout.