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Glossary
- Accessibility
- Delivering a web page, CMS or piece of software in order to provide equal opportunity usage, regardless of potential disability.
- Banner
- Print: The title of a periodical, which appears on the cover of the magazine and on the first page of the newsletter. It contains the name of the publication and serial information -- date, volume, number. Web: Either the header or some form of advertising spread across the site
- Callout
- An explanatory label for an image, often drawn with a leader line pointing to that image.
- CMS
- Content management system. There are commercial closed source CMS solutions like Vignette and open sourced solutions like Joomla!, Mambo, Wordpress and Drupal.
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets, used in the design and delivery of websites
- Feather
- Inserting small amounts of additional leading between lines, paragraphs, and before and after headings in order to equalize the content on a page.
- Mechanical validation
- Using a web script or offline programming tool to validate web pages and other pieces of software to accessibility and usability standards.
- Microformat
- A set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. For more information, go to http://microformats.org
- MOS
- Mambo Open Source, now known as simply Mambo.
- ROI
- Return on investment
- Support
- A contractual agreement to maintain the structure of a website
- Syndication
- The ability for information on a web page to be shared across the Net in a usable, readable format.
- Template
- A file or group of files with an associated style sheet and all standing and serial elements in place on a master or base page, used for publication following the same design.
- Usability
- Usability is concerned with the ease of use for a particular piece of software through HCI, mechanical object or product. Usability can be expressed in two ways - usability testing: measurement of ease of use of a product or piece of software; and usability engineering: the research and design process that ensures a product with high usability
- WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 1.0
