Key Terms for Website Projects
- Basic page: pages primarily used for content. These will represent nearly all of the pages on your website.
- Canonical URL: the official URL of the page. This is an important idea for SEO. (Google: Canonical)
- Content manager: designated employees and subject matter experts who will add content and manage the Drupal website.
- Drupal: Baylor’s new content management system
- Hero image or section: large image or photo at the top of a page. This is used to provide visual interest.
- Homepage narrative: wireframe of content on the homepage and other key landing pages in your website.
- Landing page: visually engaging page with sections for photos and other targeted content
- Message centers: a flexible tool used to display high-priority content and features slides that scroll horizontally.
- Navigation or menu: tools that provide websites visitors links to pages on the site.
- Section or band: horizontal section of content used on a landing page.
- SEO: search engine optimization
- Site map: an outline of content that represents pages for your site (sample site map).
- Status report: weekly emails sent to the implementation team, project executives, and stakeholders.
- Taxonomy: Drupal's term for describing categories, tags, and other metadata that may be associated with web content. Each of these is referred to as a vocabulary, and your Drupal website will likely have several vocabularies, depending on the needs of your site.
- Touts: a tool used to promote specific content on a website. Tout styles include cards, boxes, icons, and profiles.