Build your web design English vocabulary with this exercise. Understanding these terms will help you communicate with design and development teams and follow technical discussions about digital products.
📚 Key vocabulary responsive design — a web design approach that makes pages render well on a variety of devices and screen sizes SEO (Search Engine Optimization) — techniques used to improve a website's visibility in organic search engine results wireframe — a simplified visual guide representing the layout of a web page before full design is applied front-end — the part of a website or application that users interact with directly, built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript back-end — the server-side of a website or application that handles data processing, storage, and business logic CMS (Content Management System) — software enabling users to create, manage, and publish digital content without technical expertise HTML (HyperText Markup Language) — the standard language used to create and structure content on the web CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) — a language used to describe the visual presentation and layout of HTML documents domain name — the unique web address used to identify a website, such as businessenglishsite.com hosting — a service that stores a website's files and makes them accessible via the internet
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. Many companies want to ensure that their websites __________________ accessibility standards.
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2. Accessibility makes web services __________________ to everyone.
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3. __________________ (Chrome, Safari, etc.) can correct some errors in code, but not all of them.
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4. __________________ is a process of checking your documents against a formal web standard (such as the one set up by the W3C).
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5. I've created a CSS-based __________________ bar.
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6. Denny is a very talented web designer. He always comes up with great __________________.
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7. I don't like this __________________. You should use "Arial" instead.
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8. When will I receive the new __________________ for the site?
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9. The text that will appear on a site is known as the __________________. In a big corporation, the editorial department provides the web designers with the __________________.
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10. All our pages are currently __________________. We would like to make them dynamic.
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