Cheat sheet: Site builders and themes
The 32 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.
1. A front end that is already made
- Themethème
- a ready-made front end for a platform, with layouts, components and styles that you adapt with your own content.
- Website buildercréateur de sites
- an online service, such as Wix or Squarespace, where you make a site from ready-made blocks, for a monthly fee.
- Platformplateforme
- a ready-made online service where many organisations run their site or shop, such as Shopify or HelloAsso.
- Pluginplugin, extension
- an add-on, often made by another company, that gives a tool such as WordPress a new feature.
- WebflowWebflow
- a paid online service that combines a design tool, hosting and content editing in one subscription.
2. WordPress and its themes
- WordPressWordPress
- a popular tool that builds pages on a server, keeps the content in a database and gives an admin screen to edit it.
- Child themethème enfant
- a small separate layer of changes to a theme, which the theme's updates don't erase.
- Page builderconstructeur de pages
- a drag-and-drop editor added to a tool such as WordPress, which also adds code to every page.
- Security updatemise à jour de sécurité
- a new version of a piece of software that fixes a weakness attackers could use.
- Open sourceopen source, logiciel libre
- describes software whose code is public and free to use, which you can run yourself or pay someone to run.
3. Webflow, Wix and Squarespace
- Website buildercréateur de sites
- an online service, such as Wix or Squarespace, where you make a site from ready-made blocks, for a monthly fee.
- WebflowWebflow
- a paid online service that combines a design tool, hosting and content editing in one subscription.
- CMSCMS
- the admin screen where people write and publish a site's content without editing its code, such as WordPress.
- Lock-indépendance au fournisseur
- the situation where leaving a tool is hard, because your site and data only work inside it.
- Data exportexport des données
- a copy of your data that a service lets you download, so you can move it to another tool.
4. Shopify and its themes
- ShopifyShopify
- an online service that rents you a ready-made shop, with payments, stock and delivery, for a monthly fee.
- Checkouttunnel de paiement
- the last steps of an online purchase, where the customer gives their address and pays.
- Add-onmodule complémentaire
- an extra feature that you install on a platform, such as a Shopify app, often for a monthly fee.
- Headlessheadless
- a setup where a platform keeps the data and the payments, and the front end is built separately with a framework.
5. When a builder wins, and when it doesn't
- Website buildercréateur de sites
- an online service, such as Wix or Squarespace, where you make a site from ready-made blocks, for a monthly fee.
- Frameworkframework
- ready-made code, such as React, Vue or Svelte, that redraws the screen from the state automatically.
- Running costscoûts récurrents
- the money a site costs every month or year after launch, such as hosting, subscriptions and maintenance.
- Maintenancemaintenance
- the regular work that keeps a site working after launch, such as updates, fixes and renewals.
6. Choosing a theme that lasts
- Themethème
- a ready-made front end for a platform, with layouts, components and styles that you adapt with your own content.
- LighthouseLighthouse
- a free audit in Chrome's developer tools that scores a page's speed and accessibility and lists its problems.
- Page weightpoids de la page
- the total size of all the files a page downloads, measured in megabytes (MB).
- Tab keytouche Tab
- the key that moves from one link, button or form field to the next, so that a page can be used without a mouse.
- Accessibilityaccessibilité
- how well people with a disability can use a site, for example with a screen reader, the keyboard or larger text.
7. What to ask
- Pluginplugin, extension
- an add-on, often made by another company, that gives a tool such as WordPress a new feature.
- Security updatemise à jour de sécurité
- a new version of a piece of software that fixes a weakness attackers could use.
- Lock-indépendance au fournisseur
- the situation where leaving a tool is hard, because your site and data only work inside it.
- Domain namenom de domaine
- the readable name of a website, such as
leboncoin.fr, which its owner rents by the year.
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