Portal - A website [link to website] that combines a broad range of information for the visitors of that website.  The home page of a website is often described as such because it serves as a launching pad to the variety of information contained within the website.

Portlet - A sub-portion of an entire web page. Derived from the word "Portal" [link to definition of Portal]. As in, many "Portlets" make up the entirety of the "Portal." Common "Portlets" in Plone [link to definition of Plone] could be dynamic content [link to dynamic content] (i.e an automatically updated "Calendar", a "Recent Updates" listing, or a "Random photo") or could be static content [link to static content] (i.e. a very seldomly changing "Mission" statement "Portlet"). "Portlets" can appear either in the main body of the page or in a right or left column of any or all sections of your website.

Dynamic content - Content that is auto-generated, rather than maintained by hand, based on some predefined behaviours for the website.  An example of dynamic content might be an auto-updating site map that displays all content available on a website, so that content editors need not update this manually each time a new page or article is added to the website.

Static content - Content that is maintained by hand and will be display exactly as the user has entered it, rather than being enhanched by some auto-generated text.  A page listing  an organization's mission is most likely to be static content.

RSS - (Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication) A commonly used protocol for syndication and sharing of content, originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles, now widely used to share the contents of blogs.

RSS is an XML-based summary of a web site, usually used for syndication and other kinds of content-sharing.

There are RSS "feeds" which are sources of RSS information about web sites, and RSS "readers" which read RSS feeds and display their content to users.

Anchor - 

Mailto Link  -  A link that opens a new mail message in an email program

Landing Page

Breadcrumbs - A series of links that provide a "trail' to the section of the site that you are currently viewing.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) - A standard for specifying the appearance of text and other elements. CSS is typically used to provide a single "library" of styles that are used over and over throughout a large number of pages in a web site. A CSS file might specify that all numbered lists are to appear in italics. By changing that single specification the look of a large number of documents can be changed.

WYSIWYG short for (What You See Is What You Get)

Text Editor - A simple application that provides minimal support for text formatting. Like NotePad for Windows, and TextEditor for Macintosh.

WWW - World Wide Web

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

FTP A method used to upload and download files form your site. This requires a program such as ?

Blog (short for weB LOG) - A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently. It is common for blogs to be available as RSS feeds.

Browser A browser is an application used to view web pages.

Cookie A cookie is a temporary file used to store user preferences for a web site.

Domain Name - The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain Names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots. The part on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the most general. A given machine may have more than one Domain Name but a given Domain Name points to only one machine. For example, the domain names for several well known sites are:

• nytimes.com
• google.com
• npr.org

Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) HTML is markup languaged used to create web pages.

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions. A section of your site that will assist your visitors with the common questions they may have about your site.

JPEG/GIF/PNG images

MB/KB size of files

PDF Portal Document Format. A cross platform file type that allows you to distribute documents and ensure they display and print properly.

Search Engine

Hyperlink A link in a web page that points to another website or web page.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) The address used to access a website or particular web page.

Content Management System (CMS) (from Wikipedia) A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles.

Plone Plone is a content management system.

Kupu A WYSIWYG editor used by Plone.

Site Map A site map is a directory layout of your site. A well constructed site map allows you to find information in the same way you would use the index of a book.

Relative Links A link that omits the domain name in the link address. You should only create this type of link for content within your site. This ensures that if you change domain names, you will not have to recode your links. Example: <a href="/about/staff'>staff</a>

Absolute Links A link that included the domain in the link address. This type of link is not as flexible as a relative link and is best used for creating external links.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) The practice of designing web pages so that they rank as high as possible in search results from search engines.

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