Glossary

Technology made easy for non-techies

Blog: Web log that is maintained by one or more people and sometimes has comments about a particular topic or theme.

Blogger & Blogspot: Free Blogging software by Google

Caffeina: goddess of caffeine known to every person burning either the midnight oil, or the candle at both ends

Cascading Style Sheets or CSS: styles that tell the HTML code how to appear

Dashboard: your control panel

Dynamic web pages: pages that have hypertext, links or continually update information as the page is displayed

Gravatar: Icon or Image associated with your profile that appears next to your Username whenever you post or comment.

HTML: (Hyper Text Markup Language) code that provides structure for your web page elements

Hypertext: text that links to other information

Open Source: open and available to all. this could pertain to code and/or software that is open and available to upgrades

Post: blog entry

Source Code: the code behind your beautiful site

Static Image: visual images that do not move

Static Web Page: web pages that generally do not change

Tag: search term(s) associated with published item(s)

WordPress Theme: WordPress Template

Widget: a doodad that allows you to do stuff

Glossary is a work-in-progress brought to you by Janet Kyle and the goddess Caffeina.