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Glossary
Plain-English meanings of the words used in NijeesWeb and in these docs — from A record to x-default.
A record — a DNS setting that points a domain to a server's address. You add two (for @ and www) to connect your domain.
Account (NijeesWeb account) — your login at www.nijeesweb.com/account, for buying, renewing and upgrading websites. Separate from a website's admin login.
Admin panel — where you edit a website, at yourdomain/admin.
Alt text — a short description of a picture, read aloud by screen readers and used by search engines.
Banner — a large full-width picture or video; several in a set become a slider.
Blurb — an element with an icon or image, a title and short text.
Breakpoint — the screen width where the design switches between desktop, tablet and phone settings.
Canonical address — the one official address of a page, so search engines don't count copies separately.
Column — a vertical division of a row; rows hold one to six.
DNS — the internet's address book, which turns your domain into the server address your site lives on.
Domain — your website's address, such as yourbusiness.in.
Element — a building block in a column: heading, text, image, button, form and so on.
Favicon — the small icon in a browser tab.
hreflang — tags telling search engines which language version of a page suits which visitor.
llms.txt — a plain-language summary of your website for AI systems, generated automatically.
Media library — where all your uploaded images, videos and PDFs are stored.
Meta title / meta description — the title and short description search engines show for a page.
Mega menu — a wide menu panel with columns, pictures and buttons.
Overlay — a coloured layer over a background picture, used to make text readable.
Parallax — a background that moves more slowly than the page as you scroll, giving depth.
Row — a horizontal band across a page; rows stack top to bottom.
Sitemap — sitemap.xml, a list of all your pages for search engines, generated automatically.
Slug — the part of a page's address after the domain: in yourdomain/about-us, the slug is about-us.
SSL / HTTPS — encryption between your site and its visitors, shown as a padlock. Free and automatic on NijeesWeb.
Structured data — machine-readable facts about your business on each page, read by search engines and AI assistants.
Theme — your website's colours, fonts and shapes, set in Design › Theme.
Website ID — a short internal name for your website, chosen at set-up.
Website theme — a complete ready-made website design you can install.
WebP — a modern image format, smaller than JPG and PNG; your uploads are converted to it.
x-default — the language version shown to searchers whose language your site doesn't have.
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