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CMS Glossary
Rich Internet Application
A Rich Internet Application (or RIA) uses a proprietary client instead of the web browser as the front end for a Server Side? software application program or Middle Ware. The result is a desktop-quality User Interface and application functionality.
RSS
RSS was created by Netscape as a method of exchanging syndicated news feeds.
It originally stood for RDF Site Summary. News feeds were RDF triples sent in an XML wrapper.
Sandbox
A Sandbox is a _special area_ where developers can play with a software tool, usually with full administration privileges.
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization is a cluster of changing techniques to improve website positioning (ranking) on the web s search engines. The specific goal is to get websites pages listed among the first results for searches on particular keywords.
Staging Server
A Staging Server is used in Content Management development to test (do QA - QualityAnalysis) on content before it is deployed to a production or Delivery server.
Static Publishing
Static publishing (also known as "baked" publishing) describes pages that have been generated by a CMS, perhaps even generated dynamically, but then moved to a static delivery server, which can serve them at high speed and high volume.
Template Editor
A Template Editor provides a way for the Content Manager? to edit the appearance of the template without coding it from scratch.
Versioning
Versioning keeps dated or serialized copies of all the different versions of a piece of content. This allows the scheduling of content on and off the web.
It also allows Rollback of content (perhaps even the whole website) to a previous version. Old versions become an Archive of content.
Web Application
A Web Application (or web-based application) uses the web browser as the front end (client) for a Server Side? software application program - Middle Ware, which executes the Business Logic? on the Web Server or Application Server, perhaps with a Back End? DatabaseServer.
Web Publishing
Web Publishing is another name for Web Content Management, analogous to Desktop Publishing?.
Major features include scheduling content onto the web?, searching all web pages, infinite undo and backups, and archiving all pages to preserve institutional memory.
Web Services
Web Services describe one web server (or even a smart client applet) getting information or running an application program from a remote web-accessible Application Server.
An RSS News Feed? is a prime example of a web service.
Web Server
The Web Server (or HTTP Server) is the source of web pages returned to a Web Browser? when the server receives an HTTP Request from the browser. There are nearly 100 million web servers on the Internet, comprising the main engine of the World Wide Web.
Workflow
A system for routing documents (or pages) between users responsible for working on them. This is often used to implement a review and sign-off process for new or updated content.
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