Glossary Terms List:

Graphic Design

User Experience (UX)

Often abbreviated as "UX" (for User eXperience), this is a catch-all term for the entire involvement a user has with your website. This includes their perceptions and feelings abou...

Image Alt Text

To a computer, an image exists as code. When rendered in a web browser, a human is able to discern the content of the image which conveys meaning visually. To a machine, the image ...

GIF

GIF, an acronym of Graphics Interchange Format, is a lossless digital image format. Due to its lossless compression, it is most beneficial for images containing low color counts....

Lossless Compression

Lossless compression is a type of digital image file compression which preserves all image data and quality when saved. Whereas Lossy compression can accumulate to significant comp...

Lossy Compression

Lossy compression is a type of digital image file compression which presents the potential of loss of overall image quality. When a digital image is saved in a format which utilize...

JPG (JPEG)

JPEG, shortened to JPG, is an abbreviation of the acronym Joint Photographic Experts Group. A JPG is a digital image file format characterized by small file size due to lossy compr...

Digital Image

A digital image is an image or photo which exists in a non-physical, computer readable format. Digital images are stored on a hard drive in binary format as ones and zeroes. When p...

WordPress Media Library

The media library, located within the WordPress dashboard, is the central location for uploading and managing all media types into your WordPress installation. From the media libra...

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