Front end
Everything the visitor sees and clicks
Words that go with it
- Back endThe work behind the scenes, like saving orders
- BrowserThe program that requests and displays pages (Chrome, Safari)
- CSSThe look of a page: the clothes
- DatabaseAn organised place to store information
- DevToolsChrome's built-in tools for looking inside a page
- DNSThe internet's phone book: turns domains into IP addresses
- DomainThe name people type, like adjoaskitchen.com
- HostingRenting space on a server (Vercel is your host)
- HTMLThe content and structure of a page: the skeleton
- HTTPSA secure, encrypted connection; shown by the padlock
- IP addressThe numeric address of a server, like 76.76.21.21
- JavaScriptThe behaviour of a page: the muscles
- Request / ResponseThe browser asks (request), the server answers (response)
- ServerA computer that's always online and stores website files