The area of an image or website that the principal objects or foreground sits.
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 An abnormality occuring in gradations causing a stair-stepped appearance. Introducing noise to a gradient will help to reduce banding.
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| The measure of the speed of information or data as it flows between two points along a communications pipeline. Usually measured in bits per second or bps.
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 An imaginary line determined by the flat base of a lowercase letter such as "m". The baseline establishes the base of a block of text. All upper and lowercase letters rest on this imaginary line.
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| Applying this attribute to a character of type moves it up or down from the baseline.
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 A type of curved line between two points (called control points). The curved line is defined by a mathematical formula and is used primarily in drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand.
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| A data file or document that corresponds bit for bit with an image displayed on a screen. A bitmap image is resolution dependent, opposed to vector graphics which are resolution independent.
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 Printing that extends to the edge of the paper. This is done by printing beyond the trim marks on an oversized sheet and then trimming back to the desired size.
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| A blue photographic proof, made from actual printing plates, used to check positioning of images and text before a piece goes to print.
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| A dot at the beginning of a line or phrase used to get attention.
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| Website advertising which uses animation to attract people's interest. Ads will contain a link to either a different section of the website or a different website altogether.
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| A website which replicates a printed brochure, in that the content is purely static. Often implemented as an organisation's first web presence.
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| Business to business. Refers to a website which sells products primarily to other businesses.
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| Business to customers. Refers to a website which sells products primarily to customers.
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| (Bits-Per-Second) -- A measurement of how fast data is moved from one place to another. A 28.8 modem can move 28,800 bits per second.
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| client program (software) that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources, such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera.
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| A set of Bits that represent a single character. Usually there are 8 Bits in a Byte, sometimes more, depending on how the measurement is being made.
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