#if your ai is trained on free to use images its fine i still hate it im still not going to call it art but i dont think youre evil for

[aromanticannibal]

ok but i dont care about the japanese lady that ai generated pictures of her cat. trying to gotcha ppl by saying "oh so the old lady who wanted pictures of her cat is a thief and should die then?" i literally have never gave a fucking shit. you are taking people's hard work and making an image with it in seconds and pretending it's worth as much. fuck you

[jbbarnesnnoble]

Chaser - Downdraft (Part One)

Chapter Title: Downdraft

Series Summary: Storm chasing is your passion. You decided in high school to study atmospheric science and spend your life studying storms. An accident leads you to the Avengers compound. A mother hen Tony Stark, a confused and concerned supersoldier, and some meddling friends, life is taking a new and unexpected turn.

Part Summary: You and your team head out to track a storm, putting you on a collision course with danger. 

Features: Storms and storm chasing, incorrect science

Pairing: Eventual Bucky Barnes/Reader

Notes:  In this part, we’re introduced to reader and her ragtag team of storm chasers. We also see a bit more of her relationship with Tony. We haven’t met Bucky yet. 

Word Count: 1866

Log #15042018

Location: Lynchburg, Virginia 

Downdraft (n.) - “a column of cool air that sinks toward the ground. It is most often accompanied by rain.” 

The air was heavy with the promise of a storm. You knew the conditions were perfect for tornado formation. Usually you didn’t venture too far to the east in the midst of tornado season but you’d been tracking the storm system and knew the potential for fireworks was there.

For as long as you could remember, you were obsessed with the weather. Your mother would recall how you could tell it was going to storm without ever looking at a radar map when you were a child. You almost wondered if you had some kind of mutation. It was an ability that persisted into adulthood. Your mother’s favorite story to tell was about how you begged her to go home one day when the weather was clear and rain wasn’t in the forecast. Three hours later a storm rolled in that knocked out power for most of the town and brought down some of the bigger trees. 

“What’s the game plan, Twister?” Sheridan asked you. Casey Sheridan was one of your partners in the field. The man was a trained first responder, volunteering back home with the local EMS. You had a small team assembled, all with the goal of studying storm systems to advance the science communities understanding of them.

“Thanks to our generous benefactor, we don’t have to pull a Jo Thornton and get right up with the tornado. The AI system will control the flight of the probes into the tornado and give us perhaps the most comprehensive data to date. The more storms we do this with, the more complete the data set becomes. Even if the probes become damaged entirely, the data will hopefully transmit. They have a home base they’ll return to and enough energy for a three day trip. Thanks to Stark we have them,” you explained. 

“I hate that we work for a billionaire,” Deacon grumbled. No one was fully sure of what Deacon’s real name was. You knew it because you hired him. He adopted his nickname from Fallout 4 and stuck with it.

“We don’t work for him Deacon. We’re an independent group of scientists with funding from Stark Industries…there’s a difference,” you argued. He raised an eyebrow in your direction.

“Potay-to, Potah-to, Twister. Stark pays our bills, and I for one say, eat the rich,” Deacon replied. You shook your head at him. 

“Well when you’re done plotting how you’re going to overthrow the bourgeoisie, I need you to finish a last check on the probes, Deacon. You know. Your job,” you said. You saw him roll his eyes and laughed to yourself. 

You had two modes of transport. The van followed the pickup truck. The probes would be launched from your truck closer to the tornado. All you had to do was press a button on a remote you had in the cab of the truck. It was the first time the probes were going to be used. Up until then, your research had depending on distance analysis and observing the damage after a storm.

“National Weather Service just issued a tornado warning. It’s go time. Radar indicated rotation about two miles south,” Cody said. She was your eyes and ears on almost everything. She and Casey worked together tracking the radar and any warnings. Your main job was ensuring your team stayed safe and analyzing the data that came in. 

You had a degree in meteorological and atmospheric sciences. It was your passion. You had graduated from Cornell and had your master’s, with a dream of getting your PhD eventually. Your encounter with Tony Stark had changed your life for the better. 

Anxiety was setting in as you and your team headed south toward Lynchburg. You had a good idea of where the tornado would touch down based on the radar imaging. Cody and Casey remained in the van with Deacon driving. You were on your own in the pickup. You always worried going into a storm. About your safety. About the safety of your team. It was only natural.

“FRIDAY what’s the radar looking like?” you asked the AI as you drove. Tony had outfitted your truck with access to FRIDAY. You argued at first but she was helpful in a pinch. He had done a lot to add protection to your truck and the van. You knew he worried about you, which still shocked you. 

“There is rotation approximately a half mile south,” she said. You nodded to yourself, and opened up the comms, another gift from Tony.

“We’re about a half mile out. There’s definite upward motion on that cloud up ahead. Pull off to the left coming up. We don’t want to get too close to this thing,” you said.

“Rain. We need to be ready to move. If this thing is rain wrapped,” Cody said her voice trailing off. 

“Looks like we’ve got touch down. I’m deploying the probes. FRIDAY’s sensors will guide them toward the tornado,” you said as you pressed the button. You watched as the probes flew off toward the storm, praying they worked. When confirmation came from the team you had silent moment of celebration.

“Twist, I think we gotta go, this thing is going to come up toward us and we don’t want to get caught out,” Casey said.

“Copy, Sheridan. Let’s continue moving to the south. We can avoid running into it and still gather images. Keep your eyes up Deacon, you never know when something will pop up,” you said. 

You drove forward, keeping an eye on the storm as you tracked it’s path, doing your best to judge what a safe distance was. You didn’t expect the debris that knocked into the truck that made you swerve off the road and flip. 

——————————————————————————————————–

Tony was pacing around the lab. Bruce was doing his best to reassure Tony. Most of the team had never met you, but Bruce had. Your innate curiosity always managed to turn things around and diffuse the tension when Bruce and Tony would argue.

“We have a problem,” FRIDAY said, breaking the tense silence.

“What’s going on?” Tony asked, trying not to sound panic.

“Sensors in her truck indicate that there was an impact and the truck has flipped on its side,” FRIDAY said.

“Is she alert?” Tony asked.

“In and out, sir. I will patch you in to their comms,” the AI said. Tony knew as soon as he was patched in.

“Status report,” Tony said.

“Christ Stark a little warning,” Sheridan snapped.

“Noted. Now, status report,” Tony said.

“A piece of debris hit the pick up. We were about one hundred feet back. She went careening off the side of the road and the truck flipped. EMS ETA is about ten minutes. She’s been in and out of consciousness but there doesn’t seem to be major external injury,” Cody replied. 

It didn’t take Tony long to get to Virginia, not with a quinjet. He was grateful to have Helen Cho on his payroll now, because as soon as you were stable, you were going to the compound, no arguments. There were few people Tony cared about on a deeper level. You were one of them. 

“Kid’s in surgery, but the doctors think she’ll be fine,” Tony said. He called Pepper as soon as he had news.

“She won’t be happy about being dragged to the compound,” Pepper pointed out.

“Tough. She needs to recover, not be out on the next chase. Her team agrees. They’re all going on vacation to be with their families, no argument. She needs to rest. And we both know she won’t do that if she’s not at the compound,” Tony said.

“You’re on your own then. Because we both know she’s not going to like it,” Pepper said. Tony sighed. 

“She’ll be on board when I give her free reign of the lab,” Tony said.

After talking to Pepper it was a waiting game.Tony had to pull serious strings to be able to see you. Your family was hours away and they weren’t going to come. He knew that. If you were awake, you’d know that. It had been that way for a long time. Another reason Tony worried about you, why he looked out for you. 

“Hey kiddo,” he said once you were awake. 

“Tony?” you asked, your voice raspy. 

“Yeah. You had a bit of an accident,” he said. He watched your expression change as the memory of what happened came back. You groaned. He wasn’t sure if it was in pain or annoyance.

“How’s the truck?” you asked. He snorted. 

“I’m having it brought back up to New York. Too much Stark Tech in that thing to let it go to a salvage yard,” he said.

“So it’s totaled?” you asked.

“Afraid so, kiddo. Gert is no more,” he said. You had named the truck, something that amused Tony to no end. 

“And the others?” you asked.

“They’re fine. A little shaken, but fine.  The van’s coming back up to the compound too while you recover. Your team is taking time off too. Visiting their families,” he said. You looked at him. He knew an argument was brewing. It was prime time for tornado season. You didn’t want to miss it.

“Tony,”  you started to say. He shook his head.

“Kid, you broke your leg. You’re down for the season. You need to rest and recover,” he said.

“But you have that cradle thing,” you argued.

“That we only use for life threatening injuries or if we desperately need someone back in the field. There’s no shame in letting things heal the old fashioned way,” he said. 

“I need to be back out there,” you argued.

“No. You need to rest. Your team needs time to rest. They thought you were a goner, kid. You’re lucky it seems to only be a minor concussion and a broken leg,” Tony retorted. A nurse soon came in, ending the standoff between the two of you. It wasn’t long before you were being brought up to the roof, where a quinjet was, and loaded in to be brought to the compound. Tony hadn’t come alone.

“Romanoff, meet Jo Thornton. I think you two will be spending a lot of time together,” Tony said. You glared at him.

“That’s not my name,” you snapped before offering your real name up. Tony had a habit of calling you by the name of the main character from Twister. You preferred the nickname Twister or Twist, if for no other reason than it being the nickname of a character from Rocket Power.

“Well, you know what they say Dorothy. There’s no place like home,” Natasha said as the aircraft began making its descent. Tony had opted to pilot it, leaving you to get acquainted with Natasha. You had a feeling she was one of the people Tony was going to rope into looking after you. 

You allowed yourself to relax and drift off into a light sleep, dreaming of your next chase and the thrill that came with it. 

[tonimartz]

It’s a universal truth that there’s more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you’re just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead. So here it is: here’s what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn’t want you to know. Read this article, and you’ll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn’t that swell? .htaccess A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site. AJAX The practice of making all your content dependent on JavaScript to load in the first place; this never goes wrong. API A system whereby enterprising young developers make money from your users’ data. Remember that you can always destroy them by “tweaking” the API for “performance” because you “hate chronological timelines”. Accessibility The practice of building websites that a human might, with a little time to study, actually be able to use. Agile A development methodology that advocates self-organizing teams and flexibility, allowing startups to more efficiently realize they’re building something that no one wants. Back End The part of a website where you deal with a lot of crap. Backlink Before experimenting with dogs, Pavlov trained online marketers to salivate whenever he said “backlink”. It still works. Bandwidth A measurement of the speed with which Google can access your personal data. Bounce Rate A measurement of the speed with which users realize you don’t have what they want. Breadcrumbs The contextual navigation pattern preferred by nine out of ten ducks. CMS The system that is supposed to solve all your problems and get you to the top of Google. This is accomplished by leaving it alone until an update breaks a plugin, or something. CSS That thing they want to implement with JavaScript, now. Cache Space on other people’s computers where you can temporarily store some of that crap from the Back End. Call to Action Begging the user for money and/or attention. Code The stuff they show on computer screens in the less-offensive Hollywood representations of hacking. Comments (in Code) In-jokes and clever insights that only total nerds will ever see. One day, someone will achieve true enlightenment, and the secret will written down as a code comment, and lost to an obscure GitHub repository. DHTML See: Deprecated Deprecated Anything we forgot how to use while we were learning Flexbox. Design Research Browsing Pinterest for a few hours to steal color palettes. Design Thinking Thinking, but like, when designers do it? If you’ve ever touched MS Paint, you can put this on your resume and ask for a raise. Doctype A needlessly complex way to tell the browser what kind of HTML you’re using. Seriously, would have worked just fine. DOM, The A useful reference word for programmers, and anyone who wants to sound a bit smarter. Example: Can’t you just throw some more “div” thingies into my DOM, or something? E-commerce A fancier way to say that you’re selling stuff you don’t want on Ebay. Fold, The The part of the website everyone already knows to scroll past if they want to get to the good stuff. Framework The thing you’re supposed to learn instead of development languages, now…I guess. Front End The part of a website where you tell users what you think they want to hear, based on research, surveys, and indiscriminate guessing. Graceful Degradation The practice of building your website so it doesn’t completely fall apart at the first sign of a bug. Clearly superior to Progressive Enhancement. (See: Progressive Enhancement) HTML The easiest way to tell other people that you’re a coder, now. iframe You’d think these were Deprecated, but they’re not. Image Map One more thing that will never work on a responsive website without a jQuery plugin. Inbound Marketing See: Backlinks Inheritance The part of CSS that keeps confusing people. JavaScript The be-all and end-all. The ultimate development language. Will replace HTML and CSS because some people can’t be bothered to learn the simplest “languages” ever invented. Landing Page The page that designers let marketers have their way with so they won’t touch the actual home page. Landing pages typically outperform the painstakingly-crafted home pages, infuriating designers. Meta Data What we have to use while we wait for AI to get smarter. Navigation The quickest and easiest way for a customer to get lost. Online Marketing The business of lies, damned lies, and statistics. Open Source A socially acceptable way to just use other people’s code. Also the greatest thing since sliced bread. I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.  Pixels Work as a designer long enough, and you’ll start to notice when even one of these things is out of place. It will haunt you. Progressive Enhancement The practice of building your website so that it works anywhere, but looks better on newer devices and browsers. Clearly superior to Graceful Degradation. (See: Graceful Degradation) Prototype The terrible temporary code you write that will inevitably be used in the final project, and you’ll always be just a little bit ashamed. RSS See: Deprecated [I’m just going to cry in the corner, for a bit.] Responsive Design The reason web designers have to do maybe three times as much work for each project as we used to. Semantic Markup The practice of writing HTML a human might, with study, actually be able to read. Server-side Anything that is officially the developer’s problem. Sitemap A thing that used to be used by people that is largely used by search engines, now. Theme A socially acceptable way to use other people’s graphical assets and code. URL U R Lost. [Hehehe, ahhhh… the classics still get me.] UX Design Everyone is an expert in this, now. Apparently. Usability It’s like Accessibility, but for people who get embarrassed when they see wheelchair ramps. Validation What we all desperately want from our fellow designers. See: Web Standards  Web Standards A good idea that so many of us are outright ignoring. XML Oh right, that’s still a thing.   Featured image via DepositPhotos.

https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/10/the-alternative-dictionary-of-web-design-terms/

[iyarpage]

The Alternative Dictionary of Web Design Terms

It’s a universal truth that there’s more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you’re just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead.

So here it is: here’s what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn’t want you to know. Read this article, and you’ll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn’t that swell?

.htaccess

A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site.

AJAX

The practice of making all your content dependent on JavaScript to load in the first place; this never goes wrong.

API

A system whereby enterprising young developers make money from your users’ data. Remember that you can always destroy them by “tweaking” the API for “performance” because you “hate chronological timelines”.

Accessibility

The practice of building websites that a human might, with a little time to study, actually be able to use.

Agile

A development methodology that advocates self-organizing teams and flexibility, allowing startups to more efficiently realize they’re building something that no one wants.

Back End

The part of a website where you deal with a lot of crap.

Backlink

Before experimenting with dogs, Pavlov trained online marketers to salivate whenever he said “backlink”. It still works.

Bandwidth

A measurement of the speed with which Google can access your personal data.

Bounce Rate

A measurement of the speed with which users realize you don’t have what they want.

Breadcrumbs

The contextual navigation pattern preferred by nine out of ten ducks.

CMS

The system that is supposed to solve all your problems and get you to the top of Google. This is accomplished by leaving it alone until an update breaks a plugin, or something.

CSS

That thing they want to implement with JavaScript, now.

Cache

Space on other people’s computers where you can temporarily store some of that crap from the Back End.

Call to Action

Begging the user for money and/or attention.

Code

The stuff they show on computer screens in the less-offensive Hollywood representations of hacking.

Comments (in Code)

In-jokes and clever insights that only total nerds will ever see. One day, someone will achieve true enlightenment, and the secret will written down as a code comment, and lost to an obscure GitHub repository.

DHTML

See: Deprecated

Deprecated

Anything we forgot how to use while we were learning Flexbox.

Design Research

Browsing Pinterest for a few hours to steal color palettes.

Design Thinking

Thinking, but like, when designers do it? If you’ve ever touched MS Paint, you can put this on your resume and ask for a raise.

Doctype

A needlessly complex way to tell the browser what kind of HTML you’re using. Seriously, <html version=”5″> would have worked just fine.

DOM, The

A useful reference word for programmers, and anyone who wants to sound a bit smarter.

Example: Can’t you just throw some more “div” thingies into my DOM, or something?

E-commerce

A fancier way to say that you’re selling stuff you don’t want on Ebay.

Fold, The

The part of the website everyone already knows to scroll past if they want to get to the good stuff.

Framework

The thing you’re supposed to learn instead of development languages, now…I guess.

Front End

The part of a website where you tell users what you think they want to hear, based on research, surveys, and indiscriminate guessing.

Graceful Degradation

The practice of building your website so it doesn’t completely fall apart at the first sign of a bug. Clearly superior to Progressive Enhancement. (See: Progressive Enhancement)

HTML

The easiest way to tell other people that you’re a coder, now.

iframe

You’d think these were Deprecated, but they’re not.

Image Map

One more thing that will never work on a responsive website without a jQuery plugin.

Inbound Marketing

See: Backlinks

Inheritance

The part of CSS that keeps confusing people.

JavaScript

The be-all and end-all. The ultimate development language. Will replace HTML and CSS because some people can’t be bothered to learn the simplest “languages” ever invented.

Landing Page

The page that designers let marketers have their way with so they won’t touch the actual home page. Landing pages typically outperform the painstakingly-crafted home pages, infuriating designers.

Meta Data

What we have to use while we wait for AI to get smarter.

Navigation

The quickest and easiest way for a customer to get lost.

Online Marketing

The business of lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Open Source

A socially acceptable way to just use other people’s code. Also the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Pixels

Work as a designer long enough, and you’ll start to notice when even one of these things is out of place. It will haunt you.

Progressive Enhancement

The practice of building your website so that it works anywhere, but looks better on newer devices and browsers. Clearly superior to Graceful Degradation. (See: Graceful Degradation)

Prototype

The terrible temporary code you write that will inevitably be used in the final project, and you’ll always be just a little bit ashamed.

RSS

See: Deprecated

[I’m just going to cry in the corner, for a bit.]

Responsive Design

The reason web designers have to do maybe three times as much work for each project as we used to.

Semantic Markup

The practice of writing HTML a human might, with study, actually be able to read.

Server-side

Anything that is officially the developer’s problem.

Sitemap

A thing that used to be used by people that is largely used by search engines, now.

Theme

A socially acceptable way to use other people’s graphical assets and code.

URL

U R Lost.

[Hehehe, ahhhh… the classics still get me.]

UX Design

Everyone is an expert in this, now. Apparently.

Usability

It’s like Accessibility, but for people who get embarrassed when they see wheelchair ramps.

Validation

What we all desperately want from our fellow designers.

See: Web Standards

Web Standards

A good idea that so many of us are outright ignoring.

XML

Oh right, that’s still a thing.

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[unixcommerce]

The Alternative Dictionary of Web Design Terms

It’s a universal truth that there’s more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you’re just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead.

So here it is: here’s what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn’t want you to know. Read this article, and you’ll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn’t that swell?

.htaccess

A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site.

AJAX

The practice of making all your content dependent on JavaScript to load in the first place; this never goes wrong.

API

A system whereby enterprising young developers make money from your users’ data. Remember that you can always destroy them by “tweaking” the API for “performance” because you “hate chronological timelines”.

Accessibility

The practice of building websites that a human might, with a little time to study, actually be able to use.

Agile

A development methodology that advocates self-organizing teams and flexibility, allowing startups to more efficiently realize they’re building something that no one wants.

Back End

The part of a website where you deal with a lot of crap.

Backlink

Before experimenting with dogs, Pavlov trained online marketers to salivate whenever he said “backlink”. It still works.

Bandwidth

A measurement of the speed with which Google can access your personal data.

Bounce Rate

A measurement of the speed with which users realize you don’t have what they want.

Breadcrumbs

The contextual navigation pattern preferred by nine out of ten ducks.

CMS

The system that is supposed to solve all your problems and get you to the top of Google. This is accomplished by leaving it alone until an update breaks a plugin, or something.

CSS

That thing they want to implement with JavaScript, now.

Cache

Space on other people’s computers where you can temporarily store some of that crap from the Back End.

Call to Action

Begging the user for money and/or attention.

Code

The stuff they show on computer screens in the less-offensive Hollywood representations of hacking.

Comments (in Code)

In-jokes and clever insights that only total nerds will ever see. One day, someone will achieve true enlightenment, and the secret will written down as a code comment, and lost to an obscure GitHub repository.

DHTML

See: Deprecated

Deprecated

Anything we forgot how to use while we were learning Flexbox.

Design Research

Browsing Pinterest for a few hours to steal color palettes.

Design Thinking

Thinking, but like, when designers do it? If you’ve ever touched MS Paint, you can put this on your resume and ask for a raise.

Doctype

A needlessly complex way to tell the browser what kind of HTML you’re using. Seriously, would have worked just fine.

DOM, The

A useful reference word for programmers, and anyone who wants to sound a bit smarter.

Example: Can’t you just throw some more “div” thingies into my DOM, or something?

E-commerce

A fancier way to say that you’re selling stuff you don’t want on Ebay.

Fold, The

The part of the website everyone already knows to scroll past if they want to get to the good stuff.

Framework

The thing you’re supposed to learn instead of development languages, now…I guess.

Front End

The part of a website where you tell users what you think they want to hear, based on research, surveys, and indiscriminate guessing.

Graceful Degradation

The practice of building your website so it doesn’t completely fall apart at the first sign of a bug. Clearly superior to Progressive Enhancement. (See: Progressive Enhancement)

HTML

The easiest way to tell other people that you’re a coder, now.

iframe

You’d think these were Deprecated, but they’re not.

Image Map

One more thing that will never work on a responsive website without a jQuery plugin.

Inbound Marketing

See: Backlinks

Inheritance

The part of CSS that keeps confusing people.

JavaScript

The be-all and end-all. The ultimate development language. Will replace HTML and CSS because some people can’t be bothered to learn the simplest “languages” ever invented.

Landing Page

The page that designers let marketers have their way with so they won’t touch the actual home page. Landing pages typically outperform the painstakingly-crafted home pages, infuriating designers.

Meta Data

What we have to use while we wait for AI to get smarter.

Navigation

The quickest and easiest way for a customer to get lost.

Online Marketing

The business of lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Open Source

A socially acceptable way to just use other people’s code. Also the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Pixels

Work as a designer long enough, and you’ll start to notice when even one of these things is out of place. It will haunt you.

Progressive Enhancement

The practice of building your website so that it works anywhere, but looks better on newer devices and browsers. Clearly superior to Graceful Degradation. (See: Graceful Degradation)

Prototype

The terrible temporary code you write that will inevitably be used in the final project, and you’ll always be just a little bit ashamed.

RSS

See: Deprecated

[I’m just going to cry in the corner, for a bit.]

Responsive Design

The reason web designers have to do maybe three times as much work for each project as we used to.

Semantic Markup

The practice of writing HTML a human might, with study, actually be able to read.

Server-side

Anything that is officially the developer’s problem.

Sitemap

A thing that used to be used by people that is largely used by search engines, now.

Theme

A socially acceptable way to use other people’s graphical assets and code.

URL

U R Lost.

[Hehehe, ahhhh… the classics still get me.]

UX Design

Everyone is an expert in this, now. Apparently.

Usability

It’s like Accessibility, but for people who get embarrassed when they see wheelchair ramps.

Validation

What we all desperately want from our fellow designers.

See: Web Standards

Web Standards

A good idea that so many of us are outright ignoring.

XML

Oh right, that’s still a thing.

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The Alternative Dictionary of Web Design Terms

It’s a universal truth that there’s more than one meaning to just about every word. This is doubly true for industry lingo. If you’re just getting started in web design, you need to know what everything really means, if you want to get ahead.

So here it is: here’s what the Secret Web Design Illuminati doesn’t want you to know. Read this article, and you’ll be able to dab on the haters with your hip new slang. Isn’t that swell?

.htaccess

A file that sits on your web server which, if ever touched, is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to break your whole site.

AJAX

The practice of making all your content dependent on JavaScript to load in the first place; this never goes wrong.

API

A system whereby enterprising young developers make money from your users’ data. Remember that you can always destroy them by “tweaking” the API for “performance” because you “hate chronological timelines”.

Accessibility

The practice of building websites that a human might, with a little time to study, actually be able to use.

Agile

A development methodology that advocates self-organizing teams and flexibility, allowing startups to more efficiently realize they’re building something that no one wants.

Back End

The part of a website where you deal with a lot of crap.

Backlink

Before experimenting with dogs, Pavlov trained online marketers to salivate whenever he said “backlink”. It still works.

Bandwidth

A measurement of the speed with which Google can access your personal data.

Bounce Rate

A measurement of the speed with which users realize you don’t have what they want.

Breadcrumbs

The contextual navigation pattern preferred by nine out of ten ducks.

CMS

The system that is supposed to solve all your problems and get you to the top of Google. This is accomplished by leaving it alone until an update breaks a plugin, or something.

CSS

That thing they want to implement with JavaScript, now.

Cache

Space on other people’s computers where you can temporarily store some of that crap from the Back End.

Call to Action

Begging the user for money and/or attention.

Code

The stuff they show on computer screens in the less-offensive Hollywood representations of hacking.

Comments (in Code)

In-jokes and clever insights that only total nerds will ever see. One day, someone will achieve true enlightenment, and the secret will written down as a code comment, and lost to an obscure GitHub repository.

DHTML

See: Deprecated

Deprecated

Anything we forgot how to use while we were learning Flexbox.

Design Research

Browsing Pinterest for a few hours to steal color palettes.

Design Thinking

Thinking, but like, when designers do it? If you’ve ever touched MS Paint, you can put this on your resume and ask for a raise.

Doctype

A needlessly complex way to tell the browser what kind of HTML you’re using. Seriously, would have worked just fine.

DOM, The

A useful reference word for programmers, and anyone who wants to sound a bit smarter.

Example: Can’t you just throw some more “div” thingies into my DOM, or something?

E-commerce

A fancier way to say that you’re selling stuff you don’t want on Ebay.

Fold, The

The part of the website everyone already knows to scroll past if they want to get to the good stuff.

Framework

The thing you’re supposed to learn instead of development languages, now…I guess.

Front End

The part of a website where you tell users what you think they want to hear, based on research, surveys, and indiscriminate guessing.

Graceful Degradation

The practice of building your website so it doesn’t completely fall apart at the first sign of a bug. Clearly superior to Progressive Enhancement. (See: Progressive Enhancement)

HTML

The easiest way to tell other people that you’re a coder, now.

iframe

You’d think these were Deprecated, but they’re not.

Image Map

One more thing that will never work on a responsive website without a jQuery plugin.

Inbound Marketing

See: Backlinks

Inheritance

The part of CSS that keeps confusing people.

JavaScript

The be-all and end-all. The ultimate development language. Will replace HTML and CSS because some people can’t be bothered to learn the simplest “languages” ever invented.

Landing Page

The page that designers let marketers have their way with so they won’t touch the actual home page. Landing pages typically outperform the painstakingly-crafted home pages, infuriating designers.

Meta Data

What we have to use while we wait for AI to get smarter.

Navigation

The quickest and easiest way for a customer to get lost.

Online Marketing

The business of lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Open Source

A socially acceptable way to just use other people’s code. Also the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Pixels

Work as a designer long enough, and you’ll start to notice when even one of these things is out of place. It will haunt you.

Progressive Enhancement

The practice of building your website so that it works anywhere, but looks better on newer devices and browsers. Clearly superior to Graceful Degradation. (See: Graceful Degradation)

Prototype

The terrible temporary code you write that will inevitably be used in the final project, and you’ll always be just a little bit ashamed.

RSS

See: Deprecated

[I’m just going to cry in the corner, for a bit.]

Responsive Design

The reason web designers have to do maybe three times as much work for each project as we used to.

Semantic Markup

The practice of writing HTML a human might, with study, actually be able to read.

Server-side

Anything that is officially the developer’s problem.

Sitemap

A thing that used to be used by people that is largely used by search engines, now.

Theme

A socially acceptable way to use other people’s graphical assets and code.

URL

U R Lost.

[Hehehe, ahhhh… the classics still get me.]

UX Design

Everyone is an expert in this, now. Apparently.

Usability

It’s like Accessibility, but for people who get embarrassed when they see wheelchair ramps.

Validation

What we all desperately want from our fellow designers.

See: Web Standards

Web Standards

A good idea that so many of us are outright ignoring.

XML

Oh right, that’s still a thing.

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