The following terms are used frequently when discussing or navigating our content management system MyWebNControl, so please check here if you are unclear about the meaning or need general guidance.

Content Management--Content management is a concept, process, function, and a strategy for managing text, graphics and other elements on a website.

As a concept, it is the organizing of corporate information and making it useful (useful defined as being usable in format, time, and place needed by end user).

As a process, CM is a set of guidelines, templates, roles, and procedures to achieve the concept of CM - namely to make information more useful.

As a function, CM requires low-tech front-end (for non-technical users), multiple contributor environments, control points (to ensure quality), scalable, and separation of content from presentation.

As a strategy, CM is part of an overall knowledge management process and includes:

• Organizing information in an organization
• Knowing what information an organization owns
• Finding what information an organization has
• Maintaining (current and relevant) information of an organization.

Content Management Sytem--A content management system (CMS) is a combination of tools used to achieve objectives of CM. Often, content management is viewed as content for the web (digital content used for Inter-Intra-extranet).

Some additional definitions:

"Most content management providers and experts can agree on at least a basic definition of a web CMS: at a minimum, a web content management system should be able to separate content from presentation, and in so doing should allow the non-technical creators of content to manipulate a web site's content directly." CMS Basics

"A CMS is a tool that enables a variety of (centralised) technical and (de-centralised) non technical staff to create, edit, manage and finally publish a variety of content (such as text, graphics, video etc), whilst being constrained by a centralised set of rules, process and workflows that ensure a coherent, validated website appearance." What is Content Management

"A content management system provides Web site operators with tools to automatically enforce versioning and change control, maintain hyperlinks and site maps, and schedule publication of content. It also allows content providers to submit text and graphics without knowing HTML, while enforcing a consistent look and feel across the site." Content Management

Website Content--Any digital item intended for use on a website including text, graphics, video, audio, links to external or internal resources or documents, etc.)

HTML--Hyper Text Markup Language.  The predominant language of the Internet representing the vast core of Internet content today.

Advanced HTML Editor--The specific WYSIWYG editor used to generate and manage HTML content in our CMS MyWebNControl.

WYSIWYG--is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. It is commonly used for word processors, but has other applications, such as Web (HTML) authoring. The phrase was originally popularized by comedian Flip Wilson, whose character "Geraldine" would often say this to excuse her quirky behavior.

Web Dialog Window--A web dialogue window is the data entry windo that pops up on a website, or in a website editor like the one we employ in MyWebNControl, which prompts you to enter some information or parameters to complete the action you are requesting.  The "Insert Picture" function, for instance, generates a Web Dialog window prompting you to enter the upload parameters for the picture or graphic you wish to insert.

Web Browser--A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Text and images on a web page can contain hyperlinks to other web pages at the same or different website. Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many web pages at many websites by traversing these links. Web browsers format HTML information for display, so the appearance of a web page may differ between browsers.

Web browsers available for personal computers include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Netscape, and Opera in order of descending popularity (as of August 2006).^[1] Web browsers are the most commonly used type of HTTP user agent. Although browsers are typically used to access the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or content in file systems.