Web Design Glossary: 38 Terms & Definitions You Need to Know

Are you in the process of purchasing a new website for your business? Do you struggle to understand some of the terminology being used?

We share a glossary of website design terms in this info-graphic.

Here’s what you’ll learn what the following mean:

1. Above the Fold
2. Analytics
3. Backend
4. Browser testing
5. Call to action (CTA)
6. Content Development
7. Content Management System
8. Conversion Rate
9. CSS
10. Customer Personas
11. Domain Name
12. Flat Design
13. Front End
14. FTP
15. Grid System
16. Hosting
17. HTML
18. Infinite Scrolling
19. Information Architecture
20. Jquery
21. Landing Page
22. Lead Form
23. Localisation
24. Meta Tags
25. Mobile First
26. Mockup
27. Parallax Scrolling
28. Photoshop
29. Responsive Design
30. QA
31. SEO
32. Sitemap
33. SVG
34. Template
35. UI Design
36. UX Design
37. Whitespace
38. Wireframe

Check out the info-graphic for definitions.

This article was originally published in 8 February 2018. It was most recently updated in November 28, 2022 by