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Web Design Acronyms Glossary

Find out the meaning of common terms in the web design community

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W X Y Z

A

ACSS
Atomic Cascading Style Sheets
ADN
Advanced Digital Network
AJAX
Asynchronous Javascript and XML
AMP
Accelerated Mobile Pages
API
Application Programming Interface
ARIA
Accessible Rich Internet Applications
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP.NET
Active Server Pages (dotNET framework)

B

BEM
Block Element Modifier
BL
Backlink
BLOB
Binary Large Object
BLOG
Better Listings On Google

C

CAD
Computer Aided Design
CDA
Content Delivery Application
CDN
Content Delivery Network
CGI
Common Gateway Interface
CLI
Command Line Interface
CMA
Content Management Application
CMS
Content Management System
CNAME
Canonical Name
CPC
Cost Per Click
CRAP
Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
CRO
Conversion Rate Optimization
CRUD
Create, Read, Update, Delete
CSS / CSS3
Cascading Style Sheets / 3.0
CSSOM
Cascading Style Sheets Object Model
CSV
Comma Separated Values
CTA
Call To Action
cURL
client URL

D

DA
Domain Authority
DB
Database
DHTML
Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
DNS
Domain Name System
DOM
Document Object Model
DPIA
Data Privacy Impact Assessment
DRY
Don't Repeat Yourself
DTD
Document Type Definition

E

ECMAScript
European Computer Manufacturers Association Script
EM
EM (CSS font size unit)
EX
EX (CSS font size unit)

F

FF
Firefox
FOSS / FLOSS
Free, Libre, Open Source Software
FPE
Front Page Extension
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
FTU
First Time User

G

GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
GMB
Google My Business
GSAP
Greenstock Animation Platform
GUI
Graphical User Interface
GraphQL
Open-source data query and manipulation language

H

.HTACCESS
Default configuration file on Apache servers
HAML
HTML Abstraction Markup Language
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act
HTML / HTML5
Hypertext Markup Language / Version 5.0
HTTP(S)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Secure)
HTTP/2
Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2.0

I

ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IDE
Integrated Development Environment
IE
Internet Explorer
IIFE
Immediately Invoked Function Expression
IIS
Internet Information Services
IP
Internet Protocol
ITCSS
Inverted Triangle Cascading Style Sheets
IaaS
Infrastructure-as-a-Service

J

JAMstack
JavaScript, APIs, and Markup
JDK
Java Development Kit
JPEG / JPG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
JS
JavaScript
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation

K

KISS
Keep It Simple Stupid
KPI
Key Performance Indicator

L

LAMP
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
LSI
Latent Semantic Indexing
LTR / RTL
Left to Right / Right to Left

M

MAMP
Mac Apache, MySQL, PHP
MEAN
MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js
MSSQL
Microsoft Structured Query Language
MVC
Model View Controller
MVP
Model View Presenter / Minimal Viable Product

N

NLP
Natural Language Processing
NaN
Not a Number

O

OAuth
Open Authentication
OOP
Object Oriented Programming
OS
Operating System
OSS
Open Source Software

P

PA
Page Authority
PDF
Portable Document Format
PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
PPC
Pay Per Click
PaaS
Platform-as-a-Service / Application Platform-as-a-Service

R

REGEX
Regular Expression
REM
root EM (CSS font size unit)
REST
Representational State Transfer
RGB
Red, Green, Blue
ROI
Return on Investment
RSS
Really Simple Syndication
RWD
Responsive Web Design
RoR
Ruby on Rails

S

SCM
Source Control Management
SCSS
Semantic Cascading Style Sheets
SDK
Software Development Kit
SEM
Search Engine Marketing
SEO
Search Engine Optimization
SERM
Search Engine Relationship Management
SERP
Search Engine Results Page
SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language
SLA
Service Level Agreement
SLD
Second Level Domain
SMACSS
Scalable and Modular Architecture for Cascading Style Sheets
SMART Goal
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL
Structured Query Language
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
SaaS
Software-as-a-Service

T

TLD / ccTLD
Top Level Domain / country code
TLS
Transport Layer Security
TaaS
Testing-as-a-Service (Software Testing)

U

UI
User Interface
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
UTF
Uniform Transmission Format
UTM
Urchin Tracking Module
UX
User Experience

W

W3 / WWW
World Wide Web
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
WAMP
Windows Apache, MySQL, PHP
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get

X

XAMPP
Cross-Platform Apache, MariaDB, PHP, Perl
XHTML
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML
Extensible Markup Language
XSS
Cross Site Scripting

Y

YAML
YAML Ain't Markup Language

Z

ZMOT
Zero Moment of Truth