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The act of updating your live site to reflect new design changes.

Meta keywords are words or phrases you can include in your web page's metadata.

Width defines how wide an element can be. This can be defined in absolute terms (pixels) or relative terms (ems, rems, percentages, viewport-height, or viewport-width).

The “max-height” CSS property defines an element’s maximum height.

A rich text field is an input tool for formatting or applying text styles, such as bold, colors, font sizes, italics, underline, and other visual modifications.

The flex-grow CSS property defines how much an element grows relative to other flexible items inside the same flex parent.

The flex-shrink CSS property defines how much an element shrinks relative to other flexible items inside the same parent element.

A comparison shopping engine (CSE) is a search engine that compares ecommerce pricing, shipping costs, and customer reviews.

Content you create once, then publish in many different places across your website. As you update this content in the CMS, it automatically updates wherever it exists on your site, making it convenient to create and manage larger websites.

A 404 page is an error page a visitor sees when they try to access a non-existent or broken URL on a website.

A Webflow component that displays a pane of content associated with a tab menu button.

AI credits are the metered unit used to track usage of AI-powered features, with usage typically visible by user, project, or date range.

When you have more unhosted sites in your Dashboard than your Workspace plan allows, those additional sites past your limit will be “locked” until you upgrade your plan. When you upgrade, you’ll be allowed more unhosted sites (up to the limit for your Workspace plan) and will be able to access your previously locked sites.

Inline style applies CSS to an individual HTML element using the "style" attribute within the HTML tag.

A visible "Made in Webflow" badge displayed in the bottom right corner of Webflow sites on Starter plans.

A 16x16 px image that displays in browser tabs, bookmarks, and other browser areas. It's typically a simplified version of the site's logo.

Checkboxes are HTML structures that allow visitors to input data.

A static page is a document with fixed content that makes up an individual web page on your site.

DNS records store important information about domains and hostnames. They function like maps, directing DNS queries to the desired endpoint.

A link block operates much like a div block, an HTML element for grouping and organizing other HTML elements (like text, images, and forms) into block-level containers. But in the case of a link block, what’s inside the block becomes a link.

An element that shares the same parent of another element.

The most flexible display property in CSS is the aptly named display: flex, which allows you to create flexible layouts with elements that you can align and distribute vertically or horizontally.

In cryptography, a cipher is a digital security algorithm that encrypts and decrypts data.

"Safe" is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) method that doesn't modify the server's state or resources.

A class is a template that defines variables for objects with similar properties.

A media query is a CSS technique that applies different styles to a website or an app based on the characteristics of the device displaying it, such as screen size, resolution, and browser viewport.

Dithering is a design technique that simulates additional colors on a display to smooth transitions in images with limited color palettes.

When a search engine crawls your site's Webflow subdomain (e.g., your-site.webflow.io).

Display properties operate like instructions that tell a browser how to display the different parts of a webpage. You can customize an element’s appearance and layout by changing its display property.

CSS filters apply visual effects to HTML elements and their children using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Middleware is software that links different programs and applications, allowing them to interact and communicate effectively.

An argument is an independent value a function receives to deliver a specific output.

A section of the Add panel that holds multimedia elements like images, video, and Lottie animation.

The place to go when you need help using Webflow.

A Webflow canvas setting that lets you create styles for viewports with a minimum width of 480px and a maximum width of 767px. Also known as the mobile landscape media query.

A field label is descriptive text that helps users understand what information to enter in an input field on a web form.

A document type definition (DTD) defines the structure, validity, and attributes of standard generalized markup language (SGML) documents, such as GML, HTML, and XML.

The total weight of your site's HTML, CSS, JS, and images.

Inheritance describes a principle where child elements adopt the style properties of parent elements.

Account notifications update you about activity in your account. New notifications appear on your Webflow Dashboard after you log in.

The UI state changes how Collection lists display when you’re designing. The Items state is the default option, and shows the items that you have within the Collection. The Empty state doesn’t show these items and gives the designer the opportunity to design for a circumstance if/when there is no data to be displayed in the Collection list.

A breakpoint, or media query, is the width at which a website’s design and layout adjust to fit screens of different sizes. When designing in Webflow, breakpoints for smaller devices inherit styles from the base — or desktop — breakpoint by default.

An element that contains content.

You can exclude pages from being published to your site by setting them as drafts. These can be unfinished pages, internal pages such as style guides, archived pages saved for backup, etc. Learn more about drafted pages.

A form element that allows you to make a selection in a dropdown list.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is a visual medium that enables visual interaction with software applications or electronic devices through elements like icons, buttons, and menus.

Available in CMS Collections. With this field, you can upload images from your computer and use them as dynamic items in your individual Collection item.

A Facebook button is a clickable element on a website that allows users to connect to or share content on the social media platform.

A header is a section at the top of a webpage.

JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, is a human-readable, lightweight format for recording, storing, and exchanging data.

SSL (secure socket layer) is the standard method for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser.

The fold distinguishes the visible portion of the webpage immediately visible to users without scrolling from the remaining content viewable by scrolling down.

Java is an object-oriented programming language for building dynamic, interactive web applications across platforms

An HTML input field, represented by the syntax <input>, is a web page element where users input data, like text and numbers.

A Webflow element that embeds a Twitter Follow or Tweet button into your site.

Email confirmations you receive upon making Webflow payments.

An HTML attribute you can use to give a short description of the contents of a webpage. Search engines often&nbsp;display this in results pages (SERPs).

The type of element you're working with, i.e., H1, link, button, etc.

The amount of pages your site currently has.

By default, Collection lists display all items in a Collection, but you can add limits to control the number of Collection items that display.

Right margin is a CSS property that defines the space between the right edge of an element and its surroundings.

A typography element used for displaying multi-sentence text content.

A Webflow&nbsp;element that displays graphical files on your website.

Left To Right (LTR) describes a text layout that starts from the left and proceeds to the right.

Client-side is the user-facing part of a web app, responsible for processing user input and displaying content.

Available in CMS Collections. You can add videos via a link — not an embed code — from an online video host like Vimeo or YouTube. Just paste in the video link and it’ll appear in the native video format from the 3rd-party video player.

Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, is a file format for displaying scalable vector graphics on the web.

A digital certificate is a data file embedded in the site that signals the site’s safety to visitors, internet service providers (ISPs), and servers.

A section of the Add panel that houses form elements like inputs, checkboxes, and radio buttons.

A slug, also known as a URL slug or a website slug, is descriptive text that appears at the end of a URL and identifies a web page.

An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique string of characters identifying devices connected to the internet.

A Webflow component you can use to embed HTML to display external content, plugins, or applications.

The color-coded borders of elements you'll see in the Webflow Designer.

Compile time is the length of time it takes for a compiler to convert high-level code into low-level code.

In object-oriented programming (OOP), abstraction conceals irrelevant details so they don’t interfere with the task at hand.

A link, short for hyperlink, is a clickable website element that enables navigation between different web resources.

A list is a Webflow element that displays multiple pieces of content in a structured, visually appealing way. The individual elements that make up the list are called list items.

The CSS border property delineates an HTML element.

An Adobe Fonts API token protects and supports your data from Adobe Fonts with other programs you may be using to personalize your website’s fonts.

Adding a Google site verification meta tag to your website's HTML code allows Google to verify that you own the site.

Domain name forwarding is a process that automatically redirects visitors from your domain name to a different web address.

A smoke test, also called build verification testing or confidence testing, is a preliminary examination to determine the basic functionality of a software, website, or application.

The title of a page in your site. This is visible in the Pages panel.

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) are a layered rule-set that influence how designers and developers create a more accessible internet.

Field-sizing is a CSS property that lets form elements like text areas and inputs grow or shrink automatically to fit their content instead of staying locked to a fixed size.

A typography element that is used to link to other pages or sections of a webpage.

You can sort your Collection items in multiple ways — select the field from the Collection you wish to filter from, then select the ordering option.

Any element that is further up the element hierarchy of the document tree. For example, the Body element is the ancestor of all elements on the Designer canvas.

An end user is an individual or group who directly interacts with a particular product, service, or user interface (UI), such as a website or application.

A buffer is a temporary storage area that holds data while transferring it between different components or systems.

The part of a domain that comes before the root domain (e.g., blog.yourwebsite.com is a subdomain whereas yourwebsite.com is the root domain).

The "height: auto" CSS property automatically adjusts an element’s height based on its content.

A user interface (UI) is any visual element humans interact with on a device, webpage, or application.

A cipher suite is a collection of encryption algorithms that work together to secure a network connection.

A child element is an element nested within a parent element in a hierarchy.

Display: none is a CSS property that hides website elements. This code tells the document flow to ignore the element entirely, making it invisible.

A sidebar, typically positioned on the left or right side of a website or app, is a vertical component that contains supplemental information to enrich a webpage’s primary content.

A parameter is a programming variable or value that transfers data between functions.

A Collection list is a Webflow element that lets you dynamically display content from a CMS Collection.

The last time your site was published.