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Website Development Glossary

Website Development

DNS (Domain Name Service)

Websites are located by their IP address rather than domain names – which they are commonly remembered as. DNS helps to translate domain names to IP addresses when requesting a website.

Website Development

Domain

The name of the website that people type into a browser to visit it. For example, our domain is circlesstudio.com.

Website Development

Domain Name

a unique name that identifies a website. Each website has a domain name that is used to access the website

eCommerce

Drop shipping

Drop shipping is the process of an online store working with wholesale suppliers for the delivery of products by passing them shipping information about each customer order.

Website Development

Easter Egg

noun a hard-boiled egg that is dyed and often decorated as part of the Easter celebration. an unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or a bonus. :egg:

Web3

EIP- Ethereum Improvement Proposal

a standard format for presenting a new feature or process to the Ethereum community.

eCommerce

Email marketing

Promotion of your products and services to a targeted audience through email. Email marketing gets one of the highest ROIs when compared to other marketing channels. See how CM Commerce can enhance your ecommerce email strategy with automation and workflows. See Email Marketing Glossary

Agile Methodology

Epic

An epic is a large user story.

Web3

ERC- Ethereum Request for Comments

the standard smart contract outline on which Ethereum-based smart contracts are built.

Web3

ERC-1155

an Ethereum token standard which allows for fungible, non-fungible, and semi-fungible tokens to be managed by a single smart contract simultaneously. These are commonly used in gaming and collectible trading to reduce the number of necessary transactions.

Web3

ERC-20

the Ethereum token standard, providing a standardized smart contract structure for fungible tokens.

Web3

ERC-721

an Ethereum token standard that allows for the formation of unique tokens, otherwise known as NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Unlike the ERC-20 standard, ERC-721 tokens have specific properties that allow each to be uniquely identified and valued independently of one another.

Website Development

Error 404

an error message indicating the server cannot find what was requested by the user. For example: landing on a page that does not exist on a website.

Agile Methodology

Estimation

In software development, an “estimate” is the evaluation of the effort necessary to carry out a given development task; this is most often expressed in terms of duration.

Web3

Ethereum

a public blockchain serving as the foundation for decentralized applications. Ethereum is a turing complete language, allowing for users to write and deploy complex, self-executing smart contracts which live on the blockchain.

Development Operations (DevOps)

Event-Driven Architecture

A software architecture pattern where events or messages are produced by the system, and the system is built to react, consume, and detect other events.

eCommerce

Event-triggered email

Event-triggered emails are sent to subscribers based on specific events, such as a special offer tied to a subscriber’s birthday or wedding anniversary. Also known as transactional or automated emails. CM Commerce sends event-triggered emails with zero effort for any Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or PrestaShop stores.

WordPress CMS

Excerpt

An Excerpt is a short blurb to describe your post (or page). It’s typically used on your main blog page where a list of all your recent posts are displayed and gives readers a hint as to what your posts are about. By default WordPress will automatically use the first 55 words of your post […]

Agile Methodology

Exploratory Testing

Exploratory testing is, more than strictly speaking a “practice,” a style or approach to testing software which is often contrasted to “scripted testing.”

Development Operations (DevOps)

Exploratory Testing

A manual testing strategy where human testers have the freedom to test areas where they suspect issues could arise that automated testing won’t catch.

Agile Methodology

Extreme Programming

Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile software development framework that aims to produce higher quality software, and higher quality of life for the development team. XP is the most specific of the agile frameworks regarding appropriate engineering practices for software development.