Tech Speak: Custom Page Layout

1. When needed, draw attention to important alerts and link to more information.
2. Easily add, edit, remove alerts in the CMS.

1. Stands for Application Programming Interface.
2. A set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software.
3. Usually utilizing code from a third-party source.

1. Feature brands you carry with customized fields that fit your business.
2. Easily add, edit, remove entries in the CMS.

Other Names:

Designer Module

Creating a cohesive and recognizable statement that identifies a company or organization through imagery and messaging.

Important components to branding standards often include the development and implementation of: logo, icon, tagline, fonts, and use-case instructions.

The exact screen width where a website is designed to respond differently than it did at a larger or smaller size.

Standard Breakpoints

• Big Desktop Screens: 1801 px wide or wider
• Desktop Screens: 1201 - 1800 px wide
• Tablet Landscape Screens: 941 - 1200 px wide
• Tablet Portrait Screens: 641 - 940 px wide
• Phone Screens: 640 px wide or narrower

Programs on your computer that allow you to visit websites.

Similar Terms

• Internet Browser Window
• Web Browser
• The thing I click to get to the internet

Examples

• Microsoft IE 11 & Edge
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari Opera

1. A correction to an error that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
2. Something we never charge to correct.

Examples

• Clicking on a tag doesn't pull up the news posts associated with that tag.
• A date picker is acting wonky and resetting.
• Added a post, but got an error message when I clicked save.

Note: Because we create custom solutions, sometimes we have to investigate an issue before we can identify if it is a bug from something we didn't get right - or if it's a billable service.

1. Show off your upcoming (and potentially past) events with customized fields that fit your business.
2. Calendar views can utilize customized search fields and/or day, week, month layouts.
3. Easily add, edit, remove entries in the CMS.

Similar to:

Events Module

A segment of a homepage, sidebar, footer, or custom layout addressing a specific audience, topic, feature, or service designed to elicit a click that will take the visitor to more information.

Other Names:

• Call to Action
• Call-Out Box

Common Elements:

• Customized Heading
• Short descriptive text
• May use icon or image
• Link to more details

1. Share job listings with customized fields that fit your business.
2. Easily add, edit, remove entries in the CMS.

Other Names:

Jobs Module

Text (words), pictures, downloadable files such as PDFs/PPT/DOCs, video links... Any words, pictures, or attachments included in a website.

A computer application that supports the creation and modification of digital content. It typically supports multiple users in a collaborative environment.

Our developers customize your site’s content management system (CMS) to your site’s specifications. This means that there is nothing in your CMS that you don’t need - speeding up your website’s load time and also making it more user-friendly and therefore easier to keep up-to-date.

Information moved or imported from one location to another - usually the end goal being a new content management system (CMS).

When a client already has a website, our team usually migrates the existing web content to a new location for collaboration and editing (we use tools like GatherContent and Google Docs). Once the content is approved to go on the new website, we migrate it into the new website.

A call-to-action (CTA) elicits is a specific action, like a click, "like", submit an email address, etc.

A module is a collection of data fields and relational data for a specific type of content.

Example Modules

• News or Blog Module
• Staff Module
• Services Module
• Portfolio Module

Sample Fields

• Name/Title Field
• Featured Image
• Start Date
• Photo Gallery

Sample Relationships

• A news post may be connected to many categories.
• A project entry may highlight one featured service.

Allow website visitors to log into the website for a customized experience.

Example Roles

• Organization Member
• Customer
• Bidder
• Sales Rep

The promised results of a project.

A site not indexed by search engines, therefore creating an easily accessed, yet private location on the web for the development & design team to collaborate on your new project.

Development sites are by definition under construction, so elements may appear strange or broken if the web team is actively working on it.

How we use this:

1. We establish your website's content management system (CMS) and design framework on a private URL.
2. Our developers build your custom modules to your specifications as well as routes to that content for the designer to access.
3. Our content team moves your approved website content into your new CMS, testing out the development features in the process.
4. Our design team pulls your website content into your custom design.
5. After your "first look", we share* that private URL with you - which you can then access at any time.
6. To launch the site, we point your preferred website address to these approved website files** and make the site public on the world wide web.

*We ask that clients not widely share links to development sites so not to risk unnecessary opinions disrupting the approved project scope.

**If you are replacing a website and we don't host the current one, please remember that your old website files are still being hosted somewhere -- so you will probably need to cancel any services related to it.

A meeting to discuss and identify the problems or issues our team can provide solutions for.

How we use this:

1. We establish your website's content management system (CMS) and design framework on a private URL.
2. Our developers build your custom modules to your specifications as well as routes to that content for the designer to access.
3. Our content team moves your approved website content into your new CMS, testing out the development features in the process.
4. Our design team pulls your website content into your custom design.
5. After your"first look," we share* that private URL with you - which you can then access at any time.
6. To launch the site, we point your preferred website address to these approved website files** and make the site public on the world wide web.

*We ask that clients not widely share links to development sites so not to risk unnecessary opinions disrupting the approved project scope.

**If you are replacing a website and we don't host the current one, please remember that your old website files are still being hosted somewhere -- so you will probably need to cancel any services related to it."

Short for Domain Name System or DNS, it is the most recognized system for assigning addresses to the Internet web servers.

Your domain name is what you put on business cards and what you type in to get to your homepage.