Terminology for web page elements

Beth Agnew beth.agnew at senecac.on.ca
Fri Aug 18 17:19:13 MDT 2006


We do have some style agreement. Web pages have three parts: a header, 
body, and footer. There is a left nav bar or navigation bar or sidebar, 
a title, banner,or navigation tabs across the top, sometimes a right nav 
bar or sidebar too, some below the fold elements, links in the footer, a 
title bar, a toolbar, text, etc. There could be breadcrumbs, hotspots, 
separators, various buttons, a menu bar, a siteID or logo, pop-up  or 
fly-up (down/out) menus, pop ups, pop overs and pop unders, frames, 
opt-in boxes, media players, forms, tags, tag clouds, and even a link 
roll. If there isn't a frequently-used term for what you're trying to 
express, you might as well invent one. That's how we got all these other 
terms.
--Beth

From:   dodd at teleport.com

> I'm looking for a resource that shows the names of typical 
> web page elements. 

Bonnie Granat wrote:
>  the content on webpages is 100% optional.
>   



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