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affordance


When a control behaves as its appearance suggests.
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Animation


A simulation of movement by the rapid appearance of images in sequence.
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ANTI-ALIASING


Smoothing the jagged appearance of diagonal lines in a bitmapped image. The pixels that surround the edges of the line are changed to varying shades of gray or color in order to blend the sharp edge into the background. This technique is also called "dithering."
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Background images


Images, pictures or patterns that appear behind graphical user interface elements on a web page.
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Banner


Banners are graphic images that commonly function as Web-based billboards. Banner ads generally appear toward the top-center of the screen, and are used as attention-grabbing links to other sites.
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Bitmapped


An image that follows a pattern of square shaped pixels.
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cascading style sheets


Code that defines how to display HTML elements in externalstyle sheets that enable you to change the appearance and layout of all the pages in a Web site by editing one single file.
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Clickability cues


A visual indication that a given word or item on a Web page is clickable. Cues that can be used to indicate the clickability of an item include color, underlining, bullets, and arrows.
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Color depth


How many colors a computer screen can display, based on the number of bits per pixel.
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Data entry field


A visually well-defined location on a page where users may type data.
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