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.
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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