Some techy webdesign terms explained, hope it helps. Simple terms nothing crazy.
Front end – this is the publicly viewable part of the website
Back end – the hidden behind the scenes workings of the website
Server – this is a computer(s) in a big building somewhere which holds the data of the website which is “served” to the internet
WordPress – some software which is uploaded to the server that is used to build a website (this site uses WordPress)
CMS – Content Management System, WordPress is a CMS platform
Plugins – software apps that add features to WordPress
HTML – the basic code that is used to construct web pages
CSS – Cascading Style Sheet, a file in the website that controls fonts and layout
Web Host – a company that owns servers on which the websites sit
Domain Name – the name up the top there in the address bar ie “GreylizardWebdesign.co.uk”
SEO – Search Engine Optimisation
Sitemap – a list of pages shown to search engines to help indexing on same
Responsive – means the site will reform to view on any size screen
More to come…