There seems to be a number of arche-typal designs or layouts for web-sites. I know I have terms for some of these, and I've encoutnered others, (fixed/fluid/elastic etc.). I was wondering if there is an actually "web-designers glossary" or some such thing for refrence, or if there are commonly acceptable names for differing layouts (position of content objects such as "footer"), and for the affect/behaviour of sites, and even for the graphical/visual design, such as block, projecting, interface. So if you understand the request, could anyone please point to such as refrence, or even list the names/definition you use to describe such things.
Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources by Smashing Magazine (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/21/web-design-industry-jargon-glossary-and-resources/) is a guide to web design industry terms. It also includes resources for each term to give more in-depth information. As for names of layout components, there are no strict rules for them, but the consensus is that they should be named semantically. For example, for a navigation bar on top of the page, you should use "navigation" instead of "top_bar." After all, the navigation could be moved to the side using the stylesheet. Here's a list of naming conventions used by popular web designers for their layout components: http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/naming_conventions_table.html Hope this helps!