An Overview of the 50 Highest-Ranking Web Design and Development Glossaries · Jens Oliver Meiert
Disclosure: I’m the author and publisher of The Web Development Glossary, an updated web development glossary ebook series, as well as the corresponding companion site, WebGlossary.info. That said, this article makes it easy to verify the information given.
When you’re searching for web development glossaries (as well as web design and software development glossaries), you find a surprisingly large number of options. “Surprising,” because web development is so massive, running a glossary is not a 10-minute stint. You can have someone work on this full-time.
To provide a missing overview of the web development glossary landscape (which goes beyond a friendly but casual list), I’ve collected the best-ranking glossaries, and added data on how comprehensive they are, whether they’re maintained, and whether there’s anything special to call out (all of which is also available as a Google spreadsheet):
You may have some questions now: Why do a few companies—like Clutch, Coursera, and Digital Silk—maintain several glossaries, when these could so beneficially be merged? Why do so many agencies have a glossary? Why are most glossaries so short (cf. the sorted spreadsheet)? Why are few being maintained? That’s not something this overview answers. But it should give a better idea, of the web development glossary landscape.
