Terminology

To assist you, we have compiled this list of terms and definitions.

Archive: To copy files to a long term storage medium for back-up. Archiving is synonymous with backing-up.
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Articles: Articles are the basis of a blog. You can post your thoughts, information about projects links to interesting web sites, or anything else you are interested in.

Attachments: Any file that is “attached” or added to a blog post. It is the same as an email attachment. For example, if you made a post in Blogware, you could include a Word file (document) with the post. This Word document is called an attachment. When someone reads that post or entry, they will see that a Word document is attached to the article and can open and read it.

Bandwidth: The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. For digital devices, the bandwidth is usually expressed in bits per second (bps) or bytes per second. For analog devices, the bandwidth is expressed in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz).
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Blog: Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual or as a communication tool for businesses. Regularly updated, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.

Postings are arranged in reverse chronological order – meaning the most recently added article appears first, followed by the second most recently added article and so on.

Blogger: A person who blogs.

Blogosphere: The collection of all bloggers, blog sites, blog readers, and blog text.
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Blogrolls: Many weblogs feature lists of links to other weblogs, which are often called blogrolls. The term blogrolling is derived from the term logrolling, which is used in publishing circles to refer to the act of writers praising each others' work.

Blogware: An innovative tool for creating blogs. It is your key to publishing on the World Wide Web – easily allowing you to share pictures, video, links, documents, newsletters, opinions and more, with family, friends and colleagues. Now you can have a website without being a Webmaster. It’s simple! There is no HTML to learn and no new software to download and install.

Blogware is a technical blog platform sold through our network of Blogware retailers.

Bookmarklet: A feature in Blogware that allows a blog author to make a post to their blog while browsing from the Internet without actually being logged in to the blog.

Bubbling up: An article that bubbles up appears in not only it’s own category but in every category above it.

Categories: Categories are a way of organizing your articles into groups and making your weblog easier to navigate. When posting or editing an article in a Blogware blog, you have the option of classifying it under one or more categories. Your readers can then choose to read all the articles in your weblog, or only those posted under a specific category.

Once you have created categories, new posts can be added directly to the appropriate section in your weblog.

Comments: Readers of your blog can post comments (their thoughts) to your posts. Unless you choose to delete them, other readers can read all comments posted. Other readers can post their comments after the first post creating an online conversation on your blog.

You can allow anonymous comments, which means anyone reading your blog can add their thoughts without identifying themselves. You can also set your blog to only allow individuals with a reader account to post their comments.

Components: A piece of layout that you can move around your blog.

Cosmos: The Post Cosmos setting in Blogware allows you to indicate whether each post to your blog will be linked to Technorati's search engine.

Excerpts: Excerpts are short pieces of text posted to a blog’s main page in lieu of the full text of the articles. They're followed by a "more" link, which will take the reader to the article page for that article, where they can read the full text.

Export: To format data in such a way that it can be used by another application. An application that can export data can create a file in a format that another application understands, enabling the two programs to share the same data. The two programs might be different types of word processors, or one could be a word processor while the other could be a database management system.
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Favorites: A long-standing tradition in weblogs is providing links to other sites, especially other weblogs. The Favorites section in Blogware allows you to create lists of links, or blogrolls. You can put all your links into a single list or create an unlimited number of lists, each representing a different category of link.

Firewall: A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets. All messages entering or leaving the intranet pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria.
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FTP: Short for File Transfer Protocol, the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet. FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server using the Internet or to upload a file to a server (e.g., uploading a Web page file to a server).
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GIF: Pronounced jiff or giff (hard g) stands for graphics interchange format, a graphics file format. It is limited to 256 colors and it is more effective for scanned images such as illustrations rather than color photos.
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HTML: Short for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web (websites).

HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. The correct structure for an HTML document starts with <HTML><HEAD>(enter here what document is about)<BODY> and ends with </BODY></HTML>. All the information you'd like to include in your Web page fits in between the <BODY> and </BODY> tags.

There are hundreds of other tags used to format and layout the information in a Web page. Tags are also used to specify hypertext links. These allow Web developers to direct users to other Web pages with only a click of the mouse on either an image or word(s).
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Note, that when using Blogware, you do not need to know HTML.

Import: To use data produced by another application. The ability to import data is very important in software applications because it means that one application can complement another.
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Blogware allows you to import your data from another blogging service to use in Blogware.

JPG: A graphics file. Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a lossy compression technique for color images. Although it can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression.
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Keywords: In Blogware, keywords are words that you can assign to a posting in order to make it easier to find using the search tool built into your weblog.

Moblogging: The ability to post articles and photos to your blog via email.

Navigation: The method of determining position within a site and how one moves from place to place.

Photo album: In addition to articles and reviews, you can also post photos to your weblog. Photos are stored in photo albums; Blogware weblogs comes with a single photo album, called "Photos", but you can add as many as you want.

Ping: A utility (a program that performs a specific task) to determine whether a specific IP address is accessible. It works by sending a packet (a piece of a message transmitted over a packet-switching network) to the specified address and waiting for a reply. PING is used primarily to troubleshoot Internet connections.
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PNG: Short for Portable Network Graphics, and pronounced ping, a new bit-mapped graphics format similar to GIF. In fact, PNG was approved as a standard by the World Wide Web consortium to replace GIF because GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm called LZW. In contrast, PNG is completely patent-and license-free.
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Podcast: Podcasting is similar in nature to RSS, which allows subscribers to subscribe to a set of feeds to view syndicated website content. With podcasting however, you have a set of subscriptions that are checked regularly for updates and instead of reading the feeds on your computer screen, you listen to the new content on on your iPod (or like device).
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Reader account: Anyone can view the main page of your weblog, but to post comments, access restricted content, or perform any admin functions, a reader must first subscribe to your weblog. By subscribing to your Blogware blog, they are creating a reader account.

RSS: Short for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, (or Really Simple Syndicate) an XML format for syndicating Web content. Syndicating or syndication is the sharing of content between different websites.

A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A user that can read RSS-distributed content can present this content on another site. Syndicated content includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums or even corporate information. Or in this case – your blog posts!
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Slide shows: The display of a series of photos.

Statistics: This detailed information regarding how, when, and how often your blog is viewed.

Storage: The space allotted to your blog on the server for storing files and pictures.

Subscribers: Readers can become subscribers by indicating whether they would like to receive email notifications whenever a new article or comment is posted to a weblog. They can choose to receive these notifications for all articles, or all comments, or they can indicate particular categories for which they want article, or comment, notifications to be sent.

Syndication: The sharing of content among different Web sites.
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Thumbnail: A miniature display of a page to be printed. Thumbnails enable you to see the layout of many pages on the screen at once.
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TIF: Acronym for tagged image file format, one of the most widely supported file formats for storing bit-mapped images on personal computers (both PCs and Macintosh computers).

TIFF graphics can be any resolution, and they can be black and white, gray-scaled, or color. Files in TIFF format often end with a .tif extension.
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Trackbacks: TrackBack is a type of peer-to-peer communication system that was designed to send notification of updates between two websites via a Trackback Ping. Ping in reference to TrackBack refers to a small message sent from one Web server to another. TrackBacks are useful for informing a Web site that you have referenced its Web site within your own Web site, and is popular with bloggers.
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Upload: To transmit data from a computer to a bulletin board service, mainframe, network or in this case, your blog.
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For example, if you want to post your most recent vacation pictures on your blog, you must upload the files from your digital camera to your PC and then to your blog.

URL: Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.
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Weblog: See blog

WYSIWYG: Pronounced WIZ-zee-wig. Short for what you see is what you get. A WYSIWYG application is one that enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the document is printed. This differs, for example, from word processors that are incapable of displaying different fonts and graphics on the display screen even though the formatting codes have been inserted into the file. WYSIWYG is especially popular for desktop publishing.
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XML: Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). XML is a pared-down version of SGML (a system for organizing and tagging elements of a document), designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.
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Zip: A popular data compression format. Files that have been compressed with the ZIP format are called ZIP files and usually end with a.ZIP extension.
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