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Our weekly web terms for this week are CSS Grid, HTTPS, FOUC and CTA. Take a look at what they mean and all our other terminology in the full glossary below.

HTTPS

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.

Definition from instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/https.html

CTA

A call to action (CTA) is a marketing term that refers to the next step a marketer wants its audience or reader to take. The CTA can have a direct link to sales. For example, it can instruct the reader to click the buy button to complete a sale or it can simply move the audience further along towards becoming a consumer of that company's goods or services.

Definition from investopedia.com/terms/c/call-action-cta.asp

HTTP

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the set of rules for transferring files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web.

Definition from techtarget.com

ES6

ES6 refers to version 6 of the ECMA Script programming language. ECMA Script is the standardized name for JavaScript, and version 6 is the next version after version 5, which was released in 2011. It is a major enhancement to the JavaScript language, and adds many more features intended to make large-scale software development easier.

Definition from makeuseof.com

DNS

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phonebook of the Internet. Humans access information online through domain names, like nytimes.com or espn.com. Web browsers interact through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load Internet resources.

Definition from Cloudflare

Cookies

A cookie is just one or more pieces of information stored as text strings on your machine. A Web server sends you a cookie and the browser stores it. The browser then returns the cookie to the server the next time the page is referenced.

Definition from howstuffworks.com

Web Browser

If you want to view web pages on different websites, you will need to use a program called a 'browser'. This acts as your door to the internet. Browsers are all slightly different, but they all allow you to 'surf' the internet and access different websites.

Definition from BBC

Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Responsive web design is a style of web development where both the layout and the content responds to the device on which it is being rendered and the size of the screen it is presented on. If you're viewing this article on a desktop browser, for example, try making your browser window smaller. The content column will shrink and the placement of the text will adjust. On our homepage, you'll see the image sizes adjust and the layout shrink from three columns, to two columns, to a singular column of content.

Definition from commonplaces.com

CSS

CSS is the language for describing the presentation of Web pages, including colors, layout, and fonts. It allows one to adapt the presentation to different types of devices, such as large screens, small screens, or printers. CSS is independent of HTML and can be used with any XML-based markup language. The separation of HTML from CSS makes it easier to maintain sites, share style sheets across pages, and tailor pages to different environments. This is referred to as the separation of structure (or: content) from presentation.

Definition from w3.org

Front-end Developer

A front-end developer architects and develops websites and applications using web technologies (i.e., HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript), which run on the Open Web Platform or act as compilation input for non-web platform environments (i.e., React Native).

Definition from frontendmasters.com

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