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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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Handmade
Prepared by hand rather than by machine.

Hatching
A series of parallel lines used as shadings in drawings and prints.

Home Page
The document displayed when you first open your Web browser. Home Page can also refer to the first document you come to at a Web site.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
HTML is the code that tells browsers how to display a page on your screen. This code, sometimes called "markup", uses "tags" that instruct a browser to make text a certain size or style, display an image, or link to another page or web site.

HTML Editor
A software program that makes creating a web page nearly as easy as typing a memo using a word processor. Instead of learning HTML commands, users can format web pages using a menu.

Hyperlink
An element found on web pages and other electronic documents that, when clicked with a mouse, automatically opens a file or web page in your web browser. A hyperlink may be a word, button, or graphic.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
The set of standards that allows computer users to access the Internet or the World Wide Web. HTTP:// is the command that tells the web browser that the document found at this address is HTTP-compatible, and to display it in HTTP format.

Hue
The actual color of an object. Hue is measured as a location on a color wheel, expressed in degrees. Hue is also understood as the names of specific colors, like blue, red, yellow, etc.