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Ready to build your first website but confused by the technical lingo?

In this post, we’ll provide a glossary of terms you might encounter as you build a website. We recommend bookmarking this page for easy reference—like a pocket dictionary you can return to whenever you encounter an unfamiliar term. 

We’ll focus on WordPress websites throughout, but most of the principles and definitions apply to websites built on any platform.

1. Technical parts of a website
   1. Website hosting
   2. Domains
   3. URLs, permalinks, and slugs 
   4. CDN
   5. XML sitemap
   6. Content management systems (CMS)
2. Website code
   1. HTML
   2. CSS
   3. JavaScript
   4. PHP
3. Website metadata
   1. Title tags
   2. Meta descriptions
   3. Schema markup 
4. Navigational elements
   1. Menu
   2. Links
   3. Breadcrumbs
   4. Buttons
   5. Sharing buttons
   6. Header
   7. Footer
5. Website content
   1. Text and copy
   2. Images
   3. Video
6. Page elements
   1. Headline
   2. Tagline
   3. Body content
7. Common website pages
   1. Homepage
   2. Product and service pages
   3. About page
   4. Contact page
   5. 404 error page
8. Blog
   1. Posts
   2. Categories
   3. Tags
9. Contact and content sharing
   1. Contact forms
   2. Newsletter signup…