Tauseef FayyazA to Z
Glossary
Every concept in this sheet, plus the smaller terms it uses. Select a concept to open its card.
B
- Box model in Webflow
- Every element is a box with content, padding, border and margin.
- Browser DevTools
- The browser panel that shows the HTML, the CSS rules applied to any element, network requests and console errors, with live editing.
C
- Classes and combo classes
- Classes hold styles you reuse across elements.
- CMS collections
- A collection is a content type (Blog posts, Team, Projects) with fields.
- Components
- Reusable pieces such as a navbar or a card, edited once and updated everywhere.
- CSS for tweaks
- Selectors pick elements, properties style them, and the cascade and specificity decide which rule wins.
D
- DNS records
- Entries that tell the internet where a name points:
Ato an IP address,CNAMEto another name,MXto mail servers,TXTfor verification and email security such as SPF. - Domain and registrar
- A domain is the name people type, such as
example.com.
F
- Flexbox, grid and breakpoints
- Flexbox and grid arrange children.
H
- Hosting models
- Self-hosted software such as WordPress runs on a server you rent (shared, VPS or managed).
- HTML structure
- Elements that give a page meaning: one
h1, headings in order,nav,main,footer, realalinks andbuttonelements,alttext on images. - HTTPS and SSL certificates
- HTTPS encrypts traffic between browser and server using a TLS certificate for the domain.
S
- Site plans and Workspace plans
- A Site plan (per site) sets hosting, CMS item limits and features.
W
- Webflow Designer
- The visual canvas where you build with real HTML elements and CSS properties: the Navigator shows the element tree, the Style panel sets CSS.
- What a CMS does
- A CMS stores content (pages, posts, products) in a database separately from the design (a theme or template), and lets non-developers edit content through an admin.