Modules – are reusable components available within your Site Manager that can be dropped on any content page, within any zone of a layout. A module is used to bind content to a page that is rendered on the front end of your website.
In your CMS you will find three types of modules:
1. Editable modules that contain Inline content
2. Configurable modules, where the CMS user can configure specific settings that are tied to a data source (Tool)
3. Non-configurable modules, where the configuration is done at the data source (Tool)
Tools – are structured webforms located in the Content Manager section of your CMS, which contain website content that functions as the data source for their module counterparts.
Unstructured Data – This a content type that is entered through an editable module which lives only within a specific domain, page, and zone.
Structured Data – This is content that is entered through a Tool that can be reused across multiple domains, pages, and zones.
Site Manager – Is the section within your CMS where users manage their navigation, associated page properties, placement of modules and the overall page structure.
Site Tree – This is a representation of your website’s navigation manager.
Node - is a page entry within your navigation’s site tree.
Templates – These are your website’s master pages. A CMS can contain more than one template and associated CSS theme.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - Is a language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Your website’s styles are stored within your templates CSS files.
Layouts - are zones within your selected template.
Zones- are used to define the section within your webpage where content can be placed.
Asset Manager – Is the section within your CMS where users mass upload videos, images and documents.
Image/File Picker – This referred to as an end user CMS control that allows a user to quickly access an asset within a tool or module from within the assets manager.
Content Editor - These are MS Word like content controls that are most commonly referred to as a WYSIWYG.
Content Editor Dialog Window – These are embedded windows within the CMS that house specific functions such as preview, asset management and third-party integrated applications.
Data Grid – These are excel like grids that contain listed data entries. These are most commonly used within the CMS tools.
Draft - This is referred to as working copy within a CMS. A user can have multiple working copies of a page and or entries within a CMS tool.
Save – This action referrers to committing your work to a draft state.
Publish – This action referrers to taking your draft to a live state.
Clone Current – This action is used to copy a page, where all the content and layout structure are retained.
New Draft – This action is used to copy page where only the structure is retained.
Copy to Draft – This action is used for editing live content, where a user brings a copy of the production version of the selected content into the draft view.
Orphaned Modules – This refers to modules that are no longer related to a zone, that are a result of a layout change within the Site Manager.
Historical – This refers to past versions of pages or tool content entries.
Live - This refers to your websites published content.
Website – This is a reference to a domain within your CMS. Your CMS can contain an infinite amount of domains that can be managed from your CMS admin.
Domain – This refers to any website or application that the CMS admin is powering.
Languages – This refers to other translated dialects that are managed through the CMS admin.
Media Queries – is a CSS3 module allowing content rendering to adapt to conditions such as screen resolution.
SSL Certificates– are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to an organization's details. When installed on a web server, it activates the padlock and the https protocol (over port 443) and allows secure connections from a web server to a browser.
Metadata – a set of data that describes and gives information about other data.
Keyword – an informative word used in an information retrieval system to indicate the content of a document.
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