web design

File Tabs - Small tabs across the top of the Expression Web workspace, which offer a convenient means to bring open Web documents into view within the workspace.

Folder List - A task pane in Expression Web that shows the files and folders of the current project.

IIS (Internet Information Services) - The server feature necessary to support the many controls and features provided by ASPX.NET.

Id Selector - Used to define a set of properties for a single item or block of items on a Web page.

Inline Style - Used to define a set of properties for a single element or block of elements on a Web page that is not typically used on other elements.

Interactive Button - An Expression Web feature that enables the designer to create graphical-image buttons and associate them with Behaviors or hyperlinks.

Layer - A Web page container that can hold Web elements and be easily positioned on the page.

Master Pages - An ASP.NET feature similar to Dynamic Web Templates, which enables the designer to create a consistent layout for a Web site.

Metadata - Information stored in special folders within the Expression Studio Web site project used to manage the dependencies within the site required for some hyperlink management features, Dynamic Web Templates, and certain Web site reports.

Non-editable Region - An area on a page created from a Dynamic Web Template (DWT) that cannot be changed.

Option Button - An interactive Web element presented in groups to allow the user to choose one option from the group. In a group of option buttons, only one may be selected at a time.

PHP - A scripting language used to produce dynamic Web pages.

Relative Position - Position of Web page content in relation to its default position using attributes of top, right, bottom, and left to alter the position.

SPAN Element - Similar to the div element, but applied to inline styles.

Target Frame - The window into which the link destination will be displayed. Choices include Same Frame, Whole Page, New Widow or Parent Frame.

Task Pane - A term given to the many small windows within the Expression Studio work environments that provide access to specific Web elements for creating and modifying the element.

Toolbox - A task pane containing icons for the elements that can be added to the page with drag-and-drop actions.

Tooltip - Supplementary information provided in a "hover box" that appears when the user hovers the cursor over an element on a Web or application window.

Views - The designer can work with the Web page content in three views: Design view, Code view, or Split view.

Web Form - Similar in purpose to a form on paper, except that it exists online and is used to gather information from Web site visitors through fields and input buttons.

WYSIWYG - A what-you-see-is-what-you-get work environment that usually involves a drag-and-drop design interface.