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Website Terminology Glossary

Websites can be complicated. There are words like APIs, DNS, A records, cPanel, Hosting, Themes, it can all sound confusing and frustrating. This is why we’ve put together a list of common website-related jargon used in our industry and try to simplify each one for you.

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A

A Record
A/B Testing
Above the fold
Accessibility
Address Bar
Ajax
Alt Text
Anchor Text
Apache
API

B

Backend Development
Backlink
Backups
Bandwidth
Below the fold
Blog
Bootstrap
Breadcrumbs
Browser

C

Cache
Call to Action (CTA)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cloud Hosting
CNAME
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Content Management System (CMS)
Cookies
cPanel
Crawlability
Customization

D

Database
Dedicated Hosting
Digital Advertising
DNS (Domain Name System)
DNS Editor
Doctype
DOM
Domain Name
Domain Registrar
Drag and Drop
Drupal

E

eCommerce
Email Service Provider (ESP)
Error Message: 404 Page Not Found

F

Favicon
Featured Image
File Manager
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Focal Point
Footer
Front-end Development

G

Geolocation
GNU License

H

Hero Header / Hero Banner
Homepage
Hosting
Hotlinking
Hover State
Htaccess
HTTPS/HTTP
Hyperlink
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

I

Iframe
Information Architecture (IA)
Input Fields
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
IP Address

J

Javascript (JS)
Joomla
jQuery
JSON

L

LAMP
Landing Page
Layout
Linux
Localhost

M

Meta description
Meta tags
Mockups
MX Record
MySQL

N

Navigation
Navigation Dropdown

O

Open Source
Organic SEO

P

Pagespeed
Pageview
Pagination
Parallax
Permalink
PHP
Pixel
Privacy Policy
Proxy

R

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feed
reCAPTCHA
Responsiveness

S

Schema Markup
Screen Resolution
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs)
Search Query
Secure Shell (SSH)
Server
Shared Hosting
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Sitemap
SSL Certificate
Subdomain

T

Tap to Call
Title tag
Tooltip
Top-Level Domain (TLD)

U

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Usability
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
User Experience (UX)
User Interface (UI)

V

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting

W

Web design
Web development
Web Host Manager (WHM)
Web Hosting
Web Page
Webmail
Webmaster
Website Analytics
Website Builder
Website maintenance
Website Migration
Website strategy
Website Traffic
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
White Screen of Death
Whitespace
Widget
WordPress
WordPress Plugin
WordPress Theme