Weebly is probably one of the easiest site builder tools available on the web allows you to create site in minutes. Though site building is easy with Weebly, they uses their own terms through out the platform and understanding those terms is necessary to make the site building experience fun and quicker. Here is the complete list of Weebly glossary terms for webmasters and site owners with simple explanation to read and understand each terms.
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| Weebly Term | Detailed Description |
|---|---|
| App Center | Weebly app center is an official marketplace for Weebly developers and third party companies to sell their products to millions of Weebly users. |
| Apps | Apps are generic elements offering any kind of features to Weebly users and can be sold on App Center. For example, “Price Chart” is an app allows users to add pricing tables on their site. |
| Assets | Assets section in the Weebly code editor contains core theme files like main_style.css, manifest.json and other images which users can view and modify to create a custom theme. |
| Authorize.net | Authorize.net is one of the payment gateways offered by Weebly for business plan users to accept payment from customers. Authorize.net allows integrated checkout on your online store and needs separate merchant account to be created outside Weebly. |
| Backend Service | Weebly backend service is an app sold in App Center which can be a drag and drop element on site editor or a service like mailing list which directly integrates with Weebly. Developers and third party companies can develop backend services and sell in App Center marketplace. |
| Business Plan | Weebly business plan is a premium plan offered by Weebly targeting ecommerce users want to have online web store and cost $25 per site per month. |
| Button Element | Button element is used to add four different styles of buttons on your Weebly site and grouped under “structure” category of elements. |
| Call to Action | Call to action is an element used to prompt a user to carry out a desired activity by the site owner. This is generally a button placed on the landing page of a website requesting users to do a defined action. Site owners use call to action buttons to provide directives to users in order to achieve the main objective of the site. |
| Designer Platform | Weebly designer platform is a version of Weebly site builder for webmasters who want to manage their own clients with white labeling. Weebly offers site and code editor similar to the standard Weebly platform. The site editor is referred as builder and the code editor is referred as coder. The code editor named as RubyGem coder will allow designers to modify the content and preview the changes instantly. |
| Developer Platform | Weebly developer platform is a platform for developers to create apps, elements and backend services to sell on the app center marketplace on revenue sharing basis. |
| Divider Element | Divider element is a default Weebly element users can drag and drop on the content area to add a horizontal divider with predefined width. |
| Edit HTML / CSS | "Edit HTML / CSS" is the option available in Weebly site editor to access code editor and modify core theme files or upload custom files to the theme. The code editor can be accessed under "Theme > Edit HTML / CSS > Code Editor". |
| Editors | Weebly "Editors" option allows site owners to offer editing and dashboard managing permissions to any additional users they want. |
| Education Platform | Weebly education platform is a version of Weebly for teachers to create classroom websites and blogs for students. Teachers can create their own sites as well as classroom sites for students. Similarly students can access their sites and carry out the work assigned by the teacher. |
| Elements | Elements are general objects which can be sold as an app in Weebly App Center. They can be connected to individual sites and dragged and dropped like default Weebly elements on site editor. |
| Embed Code Element | "Embed Code" is an element in Weebly site editor classified under "Basic" category. It is used to embed any HTML, CSS or JavaScript code on the page. |
| Favicon | Favicon is a favorite icon shown in the browser tab and Weebly offers this as a paid feature. You can upgrade to one the premium plans and add favicon from your site settings. |
| Footer Code | Footer code is the section available in Weebly site editor facilitating users to add custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript code in the footer section of a page, site or blog. |
| Gallery Element | Gallery element is the default Weebly element to add image gallery to a Weebly site which is grouped under "Basic" category in site editor. Users can drag and drop the element and upload the images to the gallery. |
| Header Code | Header code is the section available in Weebly site editor facilitating users to add custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript code in the header section of a page, site or blog. |
| Header Type | Header type is the name of page layouts in Weebly and users can choose one of the default layout or create a custom layout as per their need. |
| Image Element | Image element is the way to upload images on a Weebly page and is grouped under “Basic” category in site editor. After drag and drop the element, users can click on it and choose one of the options to upload images. |
| Imageperfect | Imageperfect is the name of the image editor part of Weebly's site editor which allows users to modify their images online within the Weebly site during creating or editing pages. After the image is being uploaded on the page, click on the image to see additional options and chose "Edit Image" to open imageperfect editor. |
| Landing Page | Landing page is one of the header type or page template offered by Weebly to create a landing page for a Weebly site. |
| Lightbox | Lightbox is a pop-up overlaying window shows the original size of an image or a video when clicked on it. The outside area in the page is dimmed out and clicking outside lightbox will exit the popup. |
| main_style.css | Main_style.css is a single external cascading style sheet for a Weebly site available under "Code Editor" having style definition for all standard Weebly elements. |
| Map Element | Map element in Weebly site editor helps the users to add Google maps on their site and customize the display, size, maker, pan, width, height, etc. |
| Responsive Themes | Weebly responsive themes are auto-aligning themes on all devices based on the browser’s view port. Users can preview and choose the required theme for their site. |
| RSVP Element | RSVP stands for Répondez S’il Vous Plaît in French which means request for response, is a site element in Weebly editor to help site owners to add a form on their users. |
| SEO | SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization is an art of optimizing a site more friendly to search engines like Google and Bing to improve the search ranking. |
| Short Header | Weebly offers many header types for a page and short header is one of the header layout having a short image on the header section of a page. |
| Slideshow Element | Slideshow is a Weebly element used to add slideshow on a page and grouped under "Basic" category in site editor. It allows to add six different styles of slideshow with additional customizing options. |
| Social Icons Element | Social icons element in Weebly allows users to add links of popular social networking sites on their site so that they can follow the updates. This element only allows to add the follow link and not the share link. |
| Spacer Element | Weebly spacer element is used to create empty space around any other elements and grouped under "structure" category in site editor. It can be drag and dropped beside any other element and adjusted for height to create the required empty space. Space element does not have any additional settings other than adjusting height manually. |
| Square | Square is one of the payment gateways offered by Weebly for business plan users to accept payment from customers. It allows integrated checkout on your online store and allows to accept credit cards instantly. |
| Starter Plan | Weebly starter plan is one of the premium plans offered by Weebly targeting small-scale consumers with limited features costing $8 per month. |
| Stats | Weebly stats is the analytics feature that enables users to monitor their site's traffic on the Weebly dashboard. |
| Stripe | Stripe is one of the payment gateways offered by Weebly for store owners to accept payment from online customers. It allows integrated checkout on your online store and all Weebly users can enable it including free plan users. |
| Tall Header | Tall header is a type of page layout in Weebly site builder which has a larger image on the header section of the page. |
| Text Element | Text element is the way to addText element is the way to add paragraphs on a Weebly page grouped under “Basic” category in site editor. It can be drag and dropped on the content area similar to all other elements and then customized with additional options. paragraphs on a Weebly page grouped under “Basic” category in site editor. It can be drag and dropped on the content area similar to all other elements and then customized with additional options. |
| Theme | Theme is a packaged app and can be offered through Weebly App Center by any developers. Users can install the theme from App Center on their site similar to default themes. At this moment only Weebly offers default themes and there no themes sold by third parties in App Center. |
| Theme Editor | Weebly theme editor is the user interface to access backend services in order modify source code of the site like HTML header type, main_style.css and other elements. |
| Title Element | Weebly title element is used to add titles on pages and grouped under basic category in site editor. The titles added will be by default considered as H2. |
| Un-publish | Un-publish is the option available for webmasters and site owners in Weebly site builder to take down the publicly available site from online to offline mode. |
| Visibility | Visibility is the option for Weebly users to restrict the page access with a password or to particular members. Visibility of each page can be changed under “Pages” menu for individual pages. |
| Weebly | Weebly is a private web company founded in 2007 offering various tools for building a web site. It was founded by three college friends David Rusenko, Dan Veltri and Chris Fanini who build Weebly to provide an easy platform for the people to publish their work online. It became quickly famous among webmaster’s community with the simplest WYSIWYG drag and drop site editor and powers over 30 million website. |
| Weebly Pro | Weebly pro plan is one of the premium plans offered by Weebly targeting medium scale consumers which will cost $12 per site per month. |
| WYSIWYG | WYSIWYG is a short form of “What You See Is What You Get” and in webmaster’s glossary means a site editor providing a close feel of the published content. Weebly WYSIWYG Visual editor is very useful especially for building content directly online without the need of copy paste or publishing from third party tools. |
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