Glossary
Anchors are special types of links and can be thought of as a bookmark on a page. Many times with a very long page, an anchor can bring the user to an exact point on it (such as time lines, glossaries, transcripts, etc.). For example, to go to the "Links" entry, click here.
API tags are tags that the system uses to pull in information from one part of the site to another. An example is the use of an API tag to display events from your calendar onto the homepage.
Blogs are essentially online journals that the site admin can post. These blogs can either allow visitor comments or block them. Blogs have become both a popular and powerful vehicle for internet business and communication.
Breadcrumb trail is a collection of links, usually towards the top of a page, that show the user how they got to the current page, often in reference to the home page. These links allow the user to easily go back to a higher level in the website.
Collections are essentially a group of items (images, videos, etc.), that are categorized and can be called upon. Common uses of collections are for slideshows and galleries.
Content blocks are used in templates to divide your content into easier to manage sections. When you create a new page you will have available all the content blocks assigned to the template.
Content Management System (or CMS) is a computer application used to add, edit, manage, and publish content in an organized manner. Our CMS is of course web-based, meaning that you access it through your browser.
CSS (or Cascading Style Sheets) is the language of presentational markup for the internet. This is how color, text-decorations, alignment, and layout is possible for websites.
Dashboard can be thought of as the "home page" for the administration. Starting here, you navigate to the other apps for editing your website.
Editor (or Rich Text Editor) is what is used to add text and other content to the site. Using an interface similar to normal text editors (such as Microsoft Word), the editor actually writes the (X)HTML portion of the code for you.
File Browser refers to the window that opens allowing you to manage file such as images and documents. The file browser included here allows you to upload, edit, browse, and otherwise manage your files easily.
Float is a common CSS property that can be applied to almost any element. Giving it a value of either "Left" or "Right" makes the element shift all the way to that side of it's containing element. In addition the adjacent content (such as text), flow around it rather than shifting down under the element. The Float property is assigned every time you assign an image to be "Aligned" either "Left" or "Right".
HTML or (X)HTML is the language that the internet is written in to give websites structure. Using a series of "tags", pages are built, organized into hierarchies, and linked together.
Javascript is another language that controls the behavior of websites. Many websites use Javascript to do calculations and make flexible adjustments to websites as certain events occur.
Layouts refer to modifications to different modules in the software. Layouts can be assigned to content blocks, navigation menus, etc. You can have content block layouts to include images, or not; if an image is present additional styling is automatically applied. Again, the beauty of these layouts is in having complex (X)HTML and Javascript applied to page elements without you having to know any code.
Links are references to other URLs, files, or actions. Links are what make the internet possible, connecting pages and files together. Most commonly links appear as text, but can also be images and other on-screen elements.
Margins are areas of white space that can be added to the outside edge of an element to maintain distance between it and adjacent elements. Commonly you will find that you will want to add margins to images that you add to content so that text and other images don't bump up against it. Sometimes also referred to as "horizontal space" or "vertical space".
Modules are the different tools in the administration to edit certain parts of the website. Examples of a module are Pages, Blog, and Widgets.
Navigation Menus are a collection of links that tie a website together. The software allows you to create multiple different menus and numerous layouts to accommodate any scale navigation that your site needs.
Page title is the text that you see in the very top of your browser. If your browser supports tabs then this text will also show up in those tabs. It is also commonly the text that is used for the links in search engine results, such as Google's search results.
Plain text refers to text that has been stripped of all modification, such as style, size, color, etc.
Redirects simply redirect a visitor from one URL to another. Often times redirects can be used if part on a site is under construction.
Snippets are chunks of code or content that are condensed and reused. Much like a variable can replace a long mathematical expression in Algebra, a snippet can replace hundreds of line of code.
Templates usually contain everything but the content on each page. This allows you to switch the design of a numerous pages in seconds. Page templates can vary from changing the background color of the page, to adding an additional column, to a completely different design. Many websites tend to have 1-3 templates.
URL (or page address) is what will gets typed into the address bar in the web browser, it is the location of your web page. Every page has a unique URL.
WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. The editor you use with our software is a WYSIWYG editor because it allows the user to easily manipulate (X)HTML, Javascript, and CSS without knowing a thing about any of them!
