Webaddress Also known as URL. It is your domain name.

Web host A Web host company stores all of the pages of your websites and makes them available to computers all over the internet. Some web hosting companies other than Wealthy Affiliate are BlueHost, NameCheap, GoDaddy. When you join WA, you need to purchase your domain through like NameCheap or GoDaddy, but than you will transfer your name servers over to Wealthy Affiliate where your websites will be hosted. The domain purchase is a different process than the continued monthly maintenance of hosting your site.

Webmail Every time you log into an email system such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. you are using a Webmail system. Wealthy Affiliate has a webmail system where you can create email addresses using your domain name as your email domain.

Webmaster A webmaster is a developer who creates websites in a easy to navigate eye catching format

Web page A web page is a single page on your entire website. For example, you might have a web page that is About Me which is one page on your whole site.

Web site A website is a collection of web pages to create a fully functional website with navigation links, images, content, etc.

Widget You will hear this word mentioned as you begin to consider ways to utilize the side bars of your website. In WordPress, you can create side widgets which can contain the code within your Dashboard but in the browser, you will see your Advertisements, Banners, Pinterest Board Widgets, etc.

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi is a wireless way of connecting to the internet

Wireless Wireless refers to connecting to the Internet without connecting cables and wires.

WordPress WordPress is the website building platform that you will use to develop your site through Wealthy Affiliate.


Word processor - A word processor is a software program that allows you to write text and content that you can either save as a word processing file or copy and paste it into your WordPress dashboard as one of your posts to your website.



Join the Discussion
Write something…
Recent messages
MrsT Premium
Hi Steph, thanks so much for this the information is invaluable. There are a couple of other terms I see being mentioned but am unsure what they are - backlinks and meta bar. Would you be able to explain these for me please?
Thanks! Stacey
Reply
stephhill Premium Plus
I could do that. Thank you for the heads up. It is hard to remember all of them when first getting it started. I am hoping more people will contribute add'l words for me to add so the list can grow. :)

I will add backlinks and metadata.
Reply
stephhill Premium Plus
I added them just now.
Reply
Rodwell Premium
Thanks Stephanie, that was a good reference and VERY laid out.
Regards,
Tony
Reply
stephhill Premium Plus
Thank you Tony. I am glad you liked how it was laid out.
Reply
Rodwell Premium
You are more than welcome Stephanie - keep up the good work.
Tony
Reply
Rich908 Premium
What a super idea not only is this valuable but a must have for those who forget the terminology. One thing I noticed s that posts are being displayed with what looks like html any ideas? Thanks for that


Activity Dashboard This pretty much the “home” page of Wealthy Affiliate. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/home It lists the most recently joined
Reply
TJamil Premium
Posts displayed look like html? I'm kinda lost here, my friend.
Reply
stephhill Premium Plus
I noticed that too and when I first published this resource there was much more of those special characters. It is not HTML. HTML looks like <html> ....<head>...</head>....<body>...</body>...</html>

These are some special characterization and I do not know what is causing them. I have to go and edit them individually.
Reply
Adreamlife Premium
Thanks for the lessons
Reply
stephhill Premium Plus
You're welcome.
Reply
jaydeb08 Premium
Hey Stephanie great training, this should be in the intro lessons from Kyle, thank you for all you do here at WA, cheers John
Reply
stephhill Premium Plus
Thank you John. I appreciate it.
Reply
Top