Glossary
The words you meet while building and launching a site, each explained in a sentence or two.
Building#
- Page: one HTML file of your site. See "Pages and components".
- Component: a block such as a header, written once and placed on many pages.
- Design token: a named value such as the brand colour, defined once and used everywhere. See "What are design tokens?".
- CMS: where content such as blog posts lives, so it can be edited without touching the page code.
- Collection and entry: in the CMS, a collection is a type of content (posts, team members) and an entry is one item in it.
- Metadata: the title and description search engines and link previews show for a page.
Checking#
- Scan: an automatic check of one part of the site, such as accessibility, links or SEO.
- Get Ready checklist: the ordered list of what stands between your site and launch, under Checks in the editor.
- Contrast: how far text stands out from its background. Too little is hard to read.
Publishing and launching#
- Staging link: the review address of your site, such as
your-project.weblooks.site. - Publish: put the current site on the staging link. See "Publishing and releasing".
- Release: put a published version on your own domain.
- Custom domain: your own address, such as
yourcompany.com. - DNS: the public directory that tells browsers where a domain lives. See "Domains and DNS".
- DNS record: one entry in that directory, such as a CNAME or an A record.
- SSL certificate: what gives your site the padlock and
https://. Weblooks handles it for you.
Working with others#
- Client portal: the page where a client reviews the project, its readiness and comments.
- Handoff: the step that hands a finished site to your client, with a maintenance guide and a report.
- Sync: the paid plan that adds the cloud, collaboration, publishing and hosting.
- MCP: the standard way AI apps such as Claude connect to Weblooks to work on your site.