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Glossary

Plain-English meanings of the words used in NijeesWeb and in these docs — from A record to x-default.

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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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