Website Terms
This is for designers and coordinators to know more about websites and how they are built, so that they can talk to confidently to clients and developers.
Header
This area of your website is located at the top of every page. The header is where you would find your site title or a business logo, and navigation links.
Foooter
This area of your website is located at the bottom of every web page. This area is where your site contact details, social media, or copyright information would usually be found.
Mobile Responsive
Websites have to adapt their layout to fit on all different screen sizes and devices. From desktop to mobile, to tablet. This is actually quite complex to achieve for a designer and developer and that is why we use prebuilt website templates and very simple designs, to avoid hand-coding.
WordPress Website
A WordPress website is any website that uses WordPress as its content management system (CMS). WordPress powers both the backend of the website (the interface where a user logs in to make changes or add new content) and the frontend (the visible part of the website that your visitors see on the web). Learn more.
Templates and Themes
These are premade websites that you download into WordPress, and then you can change around to fit your needs. Our library of templates
Sections
A page is divided into horizontal sections. Each section usually has a distinct piece of content and a distinctive layout. There may be between 3 and 8 sections on a page. Visit our Sections Layout library.
Elementor
Elementor is a drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. This plugin helps you create beautiful pages using a visual editor. Learn more.
Plugins
A WordPress plugin is a piece of software that “plugs into” your WordPress site. Plugins can add new functionality or extend existing functionality on your site, allowing you to create virtually any kind of website, from ecommerce stores to portfolios to directory sites. Learn more.
Content Management System
A content management system, (CMS) is software that helps users create, manage, and modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge.
WP Admin
The WordPress admin dashboard, (WP Admin) is the control panel for your entire WordPress website. It’s where you create and manage content, add functionality in the form of plugins, change styling in the form of themes.
HTML
This is the layout construction coding language that is used to make template layouts or a hand-coded website layout.
CSS
This is a styling language. It’s the counter-part to HTML—and information about colors, fonts, spacing to browsers.
PHP
This is the engineering language that WordPress is written in. It’s a backend coding language. Developers need to know this language if they are going to develop or fix plugins.