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Nav is short for navigation. This is the bar/options near the top of a website that may have drop downs to find additional content.
Quicklinks (qlinks) are buttons that link to one location. These can be within the website or an external link.
Top bar is the header. Usually this is where the navigation, school name, and logo live.
Module refers to the features Edlio has like Shuffles, News, Calendar, Spotlight Message, etc.
Mobile menu bar are the 4 (sometimes less) icon buttons that only appear at the bottom of a mobile device. These are usually items like Staff Directory, Calendar, Directions.
Hamburger menu is the collapsed version of the navigation. It appears at the top of the tablet and mobile versions of the site. It looks like 3 horizontal lines.
Favicon, short for "favorite icon", is that little icon you see next to the address bar or in a browser tab next to the title of the page. Sites generally use the mark (or icon) from their logo.
Stroke is a design term for an outline around an image.
Drop shadow is a design term for the appearance of a shadow behind an image or text.
Fixed is a term that coders use for an item on a site that does not move even when scrolling or changing the size of the web screen.
Parallax is an image that remains fixed even as a user scrolls. Typically you will see this behind text or in between sections.
Fonts are typefaces in a particular style or size – e.g. Arial is a typeface, and Arial size 14 bolded is a font.
Serifs are typefaces that have small lines attached to the ends of letters, and sans-serif typefaces do not have these embellishments. Arial is a sans-serif typeface, while Times New Roman is a serif typeface.
Responsive web design is a style of design that is aimed at creating sites that look good on all screen sizes — 24” desktops and laptops all the way down to small tablets and smartphones. All new Edlio websites and redesigns include responsive design!
UX (User Experience) Design is the process of designing products that are easy-to-use, pleasing to the eye, and easily accessible for users of all capabilities. The user flow is the path that someone takes to complete an action using your product or website. This is usually visualized using a flow chart.
Above the fold is a term that comes from newspaper journalism, and it refers to everything visible on your site’s homepage before scrolling down. Content above the fold should be eye-catching and engaging!
A raster image is made up of tiny pixels (squares of color) – this means that it can be incredibly detailed but that it can become blurry if enlarged. A vector image is composed of points and lines connected via mathematical equations. As a vector image expands, the shape expands with it, so it is less likely to become blurry.
HTML stands for "Hypertext Markup Language" and is one of the most widely used languages for creating web pages. If you want to learn how to code a site, HTML is where you begin.
CSS stands for "Cascading Stylesheets" and is used to describe how a document written in a markup language (usually HTML) is meant to be displayed (or styled!) on a page.
Sass stands for "Stylistically Awesome Stylesheets" and has become a popular way to create CSS by offering features that CSS doesn't have yet. It not only keeps your CSS neat and tidy, it makes the whole CSS process a lot faster!
JavaScript is a programming script language that we use to create our sites. It's open-source, so if you feel inspired after reading our newsletter, you can dive right in!
Meta tags are small pieces of text that appear in your page's HTML code and describe the page's content. You don't see this text on websites – it's just a part of how the search engine bots learn about the content on your pages.
Single Sign On (SSO) is an option for user management if the school wants port user information from their existing staff database. These could include Google, Microsoft (Azure), Active Directory, LDAP, or ADFS.
LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. This hosts directory information for staff.
Active Directory hosts directory information for staff.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. These help a website appear higher in search results.
ADA The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. In the context of edtech, all electronic information and technology—i.e, your website—must be accessible/create a similar experience for a disabled person as a non-disabled person would have.
WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines defines how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
Alt tags are alternative text for screen readers to identify as an image does not have words normally to describe it. This is part of making a site accessible.