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77 Website Terms You Should Know

Website terminology glossary

If you create or manage websites, interact with people who create or manage your website, or are about to start the process of working with someone to create your website, you should be well-versed in common website terminology. We created a glossary of 77 common website terms and wrote definitions for the terms that would be easy to understand for a beginner. Here are the 77 terms you can learn in our glossary:

404 Error
Accessibility
Alt Attribute
Backend
Backlink
Blog
Bounce Rate
Breadcrumbs
Cache
CMS
Cookie
Cross Browser Testing
CSS
CTA
Customer Personas
Database
DNS
Domain Name
Drag and Drop
Drop-down
E-Commerce
Favicon
Flat Design
Flyout Navigation
Fold
Front End

GIF
Grid System
Head and Body
Hero
Hosting
HTML
HTTP/HTTPS
Hyperlink
Information Architecture
JavaScript
Keyword
Landing Page
Lead Form
Metadata
Meta Tags
Mobile First
Mockup
Navigation
Open Source
Opt-In
Organic Search / Organic Results
PHP
Pixels and Tags
QA
Responsive Design
Rollover

RSS Feed
SaaS
Search Engine
SEO
SERP
Servers
Sitemap
Skeuomorphic Design
SSL
Style Guide
Subdomain
Title Attribute
TLD
UI Design
URL
User Flow
UX Design
Web Browser
Web Server
Website Content
White Space
Widget
Wireframe
WordPress
WYSIWYG Editor

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