A

Automatic Navigation

Site navigation can be automated using menu boxes.  A menu will automatically generate links to all of the pages in a particular folder and stay up-to-date as pages are added, moved or deleted. The names used for the links are the names of the pages and they are ordered as they are in the folder. Multiple levels of navigation can be constructed by incorporating menus into page templates. Since the particular folder that will be used to populate the menu can be relative (e.g. current folder), the menu will adapt to any page that uses the template in which it is defined.

 

B

Background Color

The Background Color is the color of the background of the entire component.

Background Image

An image used as the background of the entire component

Box

 

C

Color Swatch

 

Color-Shifted Image

The combination of palettes and stylesheets give "global" control over text and backgrounds. There are many instances, however, where graphics are used to create shapes and textures. siteMagix has a unique technology that allows GIF images to be "color shifted" to a color in the palette. When image content objects are created a color is chosen from the palette that represents the color that is to be shifted. When the image is used in a box a particular color palette entry is chosen and the image will always shift to that color. Color shifting can be applied to simple images or to composite images.

 

Composite Background

Stylesheets may contain complex graphical backgrounds that can be used decorate text boxes.  These backgrounds are special types of images know as "composite images".  The composite images consist of a series of images used to represent corners, sides, tops and bottoms of shapes.  These shapes will then envelope the text box and scale to the size of the text box without losing their fundamental appearance due to stretching.  This is because there is carefully crafted HTML used to position these images and specify their size.  The end result is an easy way to create many of the popular text block styles that include rounded corners, drop shadows, decorative borders or 3D raised looks.  The user simply selects one of these composite images into a stylesheet and than uses that stylesheet for any boxes that are to adopt that look.

 

Composite Image   

Content

Content Box

 

D

 Default

The Default is the component that is used when something else is not supplied, or explicitly specified.

  

Default Page

Default Palette

Default Stylesheet

Default Template

 

E 

External Site Name

The External Site Name is the name that the outside world will use to access the Published copy of your site (i.e. http://www'anysite'.com)

 

H

Hidden

  

I

Internal Site Name

The name that is used to refer to the site while it is being edited.

 

J

Javascript

 

M

Major Heading 

Menu Box

Meta Tag

Minor Heading

 

P

Page 

Page Master

Palette

Picture Box

 

Pixel

The pixel (a word invented from "picture element") is the basic unit of the composition of an image on a computer monitor.  

 

Publish

 

S

Style

A Style is a definition of fonts, colors and other related formatting options.

 

Style Sheet

 

T

Table

A Table is made up of rows (horizontal strips) and columns (vertical strips) of cells, and is generally used to neatly display text, data and graphics. 

 

Text Box

 

U

URL (Universal Resource Locator)

A URL is the address of a file that is accessible on the Internet   It is more commonly known as the Web Address.  Examples:

  • http://www.siteZen.com
  • http://www.YourWebsiteAddress.com

 

W 

Work Area

 

Working Copy (of a site)

The Working Copy is the unpublished copy of your site.  The Working Copy of the site can only be accessed for editing by clicking on the Internal Site Name in the Control Panel; it cannot be accessed by entering the URL (web address) for your site into the browser.

 

 

 
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