Re: Quick Terminology Poll

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> Section - a group of pages/part of a site (I guess I could also use
> Folder - undecided on this)

If your site is dynamic, then using Folder could confuse because  all
the pages would be dynamically generated. Also, in a dynamic site, you
will probably not have folders.

I've seen the term "channel" being used for this purpose.


> Content - the main textual content of a page

As in Raw content without any format.

> Assets - images, media files, downloadable files associated
> with a site
> - I know some refer to this as a site's Media, but this implies more
> visual media as opposed to downloadable files - I prefer to group the
> whole lot together.

I prefer to include content also in this term. For example, all the XML
files that represent news aricles.

> Template - design template as applied to a page or group of pages

I think of template as something that pulls up different components of a
page and shows it to a user. For example, a page template pulls up top
five news items, a search box, left nav bar, right nav bar and so on.
These individual components could in turn have their own templates. So a
template is something that gives form to content.

> Layout - a predefined template for site content (e.g. 2 col format)

I also consider layout as a specific instance of a template. However,
some products differentiate between layout and template in which case,
template contains (business) logic for putting the content together and
layout contains the presentation information (2 column, 3 colum etc).


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