Glossary

The words that stop people, explained in plain English. No jargon used to explain jargon.

Building

Building software by describing what you want instead of writing it.

Where an app keeps the things it has to remember.

A folder that remembers every version of itself.

A secret an app needs to work that must never end up in the code.

The doorway one piece of software uses to ask another for something.

Putting the thing you made onto the internet so other people can reach it.

Renting the computer that keeps your site switched on for everybody else.

The address people type, and the one thing you should register in your own name.

A named room inside a domain somebody already owns.

The phone book that turns an address people type into the machine that answers.

Whether the words exist in the page before the visitor's browser does any work.

Whether Google has actually read your page and is willing to show it.