Glossary of graphic-web-print design terms -
Krishnadasan Design, India New Delhi
These are the information about the concepts related to graphic design, website design, print design, multimedia and internet.
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Cache
To store on a computer user's hard disk a local copy of a web page accessed via the Internet. The web browser compares the cached copy of the page to the original, and if there have been no changes, the browser will use the cached copy rather than reloading the page onto the client, saving processing and download time.
CD-ROM
Compact Disk-Read Only Memory; an optical disk from which information may be read but not written.
CD-R or Compact Disk-Recordable
Refers to computer peripheral disk drives that allow the user to record content on to a blank compact disk.
Cascading Style Sheet, CSS
A cascading style sheet (CSS) is a collection of style definitions derived from multiple sources with a defined order of precedence where the definitions of any style element conflict.
Content
That's what a Website, report or information is about. Currently, many authors stress the importance of content for Websites. Following their arguments, information design (or information architecture and information architects) will become more and more important in the future.
Configuration
This is a general-purpose computer term that can refer to the way you have your computer set up.
CMYK
CMYK are process colours used to create full colour projects.
Colour Separating
The processes of separating the primary colour components for printing.
Crop Marks
Markings at the edges of original to indicate the area desired in reproduction.
Client
Computer hardware or software used by an end user on a computer network or the Internet to query a remote server. A web browser is an example of client software.
Client-Server
A computing network in which the functions are divided between clients (or personal computers or terminals), and servers that store, process, and transmit the information.
Client-Side Program
A computer program that is downloaded from a server and executed or run using the end user's computer hardware. Java and JavaScript are examples of client-side programs.
CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
A server-side communication standard supported by all web servers for accessing external programs. Since HTML allows only one-way communication from the server, which is read by the web browser or client, CGI permits communication and interaction from the client to the server for two-way, dynamic web pages.
Cookie
A unique string of letters and numbers that the web server stores in a file on your hard drive. This method is used by web designers to track visitors to a web site so the visitors do not have to enter the same information every time they go to a new page or revisit a site. For example, web designers use cookies to keep track of purchases a visitor wants to make while shopping through a web catalog. Cookies may work through a single visit to a web site, such as when tracking a shopping trip, or may be set to work through multiple sessions when a visitor returns to the site.
Creative
Basically advertisements and campaigns.
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