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Cheat sheet: What kind of site

The 41 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.

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1. Days, weeks or months

Order of magnitudeordre de grandeur
the rough size of a number, such as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of euros.
Showcase sitesite vitrine
a site that presents an organisation or a product with pages to read, and perhaps one simple form.
Featurefonctionnalité
something the site does for visitors, such as a contact form or project filters.
Accountcompte
the record a site keeps for one person on its servers, which they reach by logging in from any device.
Loginconnexion
the step where a person proves who they are to a site, usually with an email address and a password.
Personal datadonnées personnelles
any information about a person who can be identified, such as a name or an email address.
Integrationintégration, connecteur
a connection that lets a site exchange data with another system, such as stock software, by itself.

2. From days of work to a budget

Day ratetaux journalier, TJM
the price of one day of a person's work, which agencies and freelancers use to price a project.
Rangefourchette
a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.
Budgetbudget
the amount of money you can spend on the project.
Estimateestimation
an approximate price or duration, given early, which can still change.
Agencyagence
a company with a team that designs and builds sites for clients.
Freelancerfreelance, indépendant
a person who works alone for several clients, paid per project or per day.
Running costscoûts récurrents
the money a site costs every month or year after launch, such as hosting, subscriptions and maintenance.

3. Two quotes for two different projects

Quotedevis
a firm written offer with the price, the dates and the work included, signed before the work starts.
Price driverfacteur de coût
a piece of work that raises a project's price more than the rest, such as payments or a connection to other software.
APIAPI
a way for one program to ask another for data or actions, such as a shop asking its stock software what is left.
Accessibilityaccessibilité
how well people with a disability can use a site, for example with a screen reader, the keyboard or larger text.
European Accessibility Actacte européen sur l'accessibilité, EAA
the European law that, since June 2025, requires most companies that sell online to have an accessible site.
Content migrationreprise de contenu
moving the texts, pictures and pages of an old site into a new one.
Redirectredirection
a response that tells the browser to go to another address, for example from http to https.
Itemised quotedevis détaillé
a quote that gives the price of each part of the work on its own line, so you can see where the money goes.
Scopepérimètre
everything a version of the project includes, written down so that everyone agrees on it.

4. "Just one small thing"

Change requestdemande de modification
a change to the brief, asked for during the work, which may cost time and money.
Phasephase, lot
one stage of a project, with its own scope, estimate and budget, such as a second phase after launch.
Share linklien de partage
a plain link that opens an app such as WhatsApp with a message ready to send, without tracking anyone.
Trackertraceur, tracker
a script that records what visitors do on a site, often to show them targeted ads.
App store reviewvalidation sur les stores
the check that Apple and Google make on each new version of an app before it appears in their stores.
Launchlancement, mise en ligne
the moment a site first opens to the public, with real users and real data.

5. Try it on your portfolio

Version 1V1, première version
the first version that goes online, with only the features chosen for it.
MVPproduit minimum viable
a minimum viable product, the smallest version that is already useful to its visitors.
Roadmapfeuille de route
the list of what comes after the first version, in order.
Day ratetaux journalier, TJM
the price of one day of a person's work, which agencies and freelancers use to price a project.
Rangefourchette
a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.
Showcase sitesite vitrine
a site that presents an organisation or a product with pages to read, and perhaps one simple form.

6. What to ask

Rangefourchette
a low and a high figure, such as €3,000 to €6,000, given instead of one exact number.
Running costscoûts récurrents
the money a site costs every month or year after launch, such as hosting, subscriptions and maintenance.
Itemised quotedevis détaillé
a quote that gives the price of each part of the work on its own line, so you can see where the money goes.
Price driverfacteur de coût
a piece of work that raises a project's price more than the rest, such as payments or a connection to other software.
Change requestdemande de modification
a change to the brief, asked for during the work, which may cost time and money.
Phasephase, lot
one stage of a project, with its own scope, estimate and budget, such as a second phase after launch.

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