PowerCMS - FAQ

Yes! If you already have a web site made in HTML language, with small reconstructions we are able to implement PowerCMS in to your site so that you can have dynamical web site in the future which you can further on edit, update and change yourself without the need of hiring a web master.

If I alredy have CMS does it mean I have a dynamic web site?

Yes! CMS is highly-automated web application (software) that stores data in to a database from which web site pages get shown to viewers, and that is done dynamicaly. On a dynamic web page, the user can make requests (often through a form) for data contained in a database on the server that will be assembled 'on the fly' according to what is requested. For example the user might want to find out information about a theatrical performance, such as theatre locations and ticket availability for particular dates. When the user selects these options, the request is relayed to the server using an intermediary, such as PHP script embedded in the page's HTML. The intermediary tells the server what information to return. Such a web page is said to be dynamic.

Can any employee edit and create content of my site?

CMS allows you to have as many administrators for your site. You can give access rights to anyone you like to work on your site. It is very easy to work with PowerCMS, you don't need to hire professionals and you don't need any experience, user guide that we will provide is all you need. In a very short period you and your administrators will learn how to create and edit the content of your web site.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially well-suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. The language can be used to write programs that output code.

PHP can also be used to connect to a database; to retrieve, add or update content. This makes PHP an ideal language for creating large-scale websites. A single PHP template can be written to retrieve and display all database records, for example product listings. Each product webpage is generated using the same routines—conditionally showing availability, price, shipping costs, etc.

What is MySQL, database?

MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. MySQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility. MySQL is most commonly used for Web applications and for embedded applications and has become a popular alternative to proprietary database systems because of its speed and reliability. MySQL can run on UNIX, Windows and Mac OS.

MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded Structured Query Language (SQL) database server. Information in MySQL database is stored in the form of related tables. MySQL databases are typically used for web applications development (often accessed using PHP.

Apache is one of the the world's most widely used Web servers on the Internet. Apache is Open Source freeware, and is available for Linux, Windows, and many versions of UNIX. Originally developed in 1995 by a group that was to go on to become the The Apache Group, the Apache HTTP Server is considered by proponents to be fast, scalable and secure. The name was derived from the project's less robust beginnings ('A patchy Web server').

Glossary

Animated banner

A series of individual gif images can be saved within a special animation application so that when they're combined together they form a short sequence of 'what appears to be' moving images. The advertising banners seen at the top of many commercial web pages are often animated gifs, which are designed to catch your attention.
Animation gives life to Web sites by displaying a variety of moving objects in your browser screen: images, words, and pictures, to name a few (although having too many animated images can be annoying). There are certain software programs that allow Web developers to create animated images, commonly known as animated GIFs.

Banner

A banner is a graphic image (static, animated, or rich media) that is placed on web sites as an advertisement. Banners are commonly used for brand awareness and generating sales.

An online advertisement on a Web page, it links to another Web site or buffer page or landing page.

Traditionally, ad banners have been the most common unit of advertising on the Web, and cost anywhere from FREE to $5,000 to more than $150,000 per month depending on the amount of traffic and page views the Web site receives.

It is called an ad banner because it is in the shape of a banner, usually placed at the top or bottom of a Web page. Now the term "ad banner" loosely refers to any form of online ad, including small rectangular boxes known as buttons and large vertical boxes known as skyscrapers.

Browser

Browsers are software programs that enable you to view WWW documents. They "translate" HTML-encoded files into the text, images, sounds, and other features you see. Microsoft Internet Explorer (called simply IE), Mozilla, Firefox, Safari are examples of browsers that enable you to view text and images and many other WWW features. They are software that must be installed on your computer.

CMS (Content Management System)

A Content Management System (CMS) is a software tool designed to help content managers create, manage, and publish their content. The CMS uses a database to track the location of, and relationships among, content elements in a central repository or file system.

Broadly speaking, a content management system describes application software that allows people to more easily change and update content, especially on their websites. When the content (number of pages, images, etc.), and/or the number of contributors, grows large, a CMS helps collect, create, and aggregate content in ways that makes it easy to reuse.

A CMS allows a team of contributors to work on the same pages without conflicting (CheckInCheckOut and WorkFlow control). It can schedule pages to appear and disappear at designated times, and archive the old pages with versioning and revision control.

Reuse of content means an item can be edited in one place and be published instantly in many places. But it also means that the different versions of the content can be formatted properly for MultipleChannel delivery, including the web (HTML and PDF), print, wireless handheld devices, and cell phones.

Smaller CMSs are for single web authors working one or a few websites. Enterprise CMSs may control hundreds of thousands of pages on hundreds of websites with many dozens of contributors. In between, there are Team CMSs for corporate departments and smaller organizations.

Some CMSs edit unstructured content, whole documents or web pages (usually HTML), others edit structured content, with a content template for a page and individual content elements (usually XML).

A message from a WEB SERVER computer, sent to and stored by your browser on your computer. When your computer consults the originating server computer, the cookie is sent back to the server, allowing it to respond to you according to the cookie's contents. The main use for cookies is to provide customized Web pages according to a profile of your interests. When you log onto a "customize" type of invitation on a Web page and fill in your name and other information, this may result in a cookie on your computer which that Web page will access to appear to "know" you and provide what you want.

DHTML (Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language)

Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language: It's an extension to HTML which allows Web page designers and programmers to have more control over the appearance and position of items embedded into, or placed upon, Web pages.

A unique address that identifies an individual (or company’s) Web site on the Internet. It usually contains two or more segments separated by full stops, such as www.companyname.com. It’s a lot easier to remember a short Domain Name than it is to remember the full IP Address of the Web Site.

A domain name is translated in huge tables standardized across the Internet into a numeric IP address unique the host computer sought. These tables are maintained on computers called "Domain Name Servers." Whenever you ask the browser to find a URL, the browser must consult the table on the domain name server that particular computer is networked to consult.

To copy something from a primary source to a more peripheral one, as in saving something found on the Web (currently located on its server) to diskette or to a file on your local hard drive.

A method of communicating with other persons by sending and receiving electronic mail messages via an ISP’s server to other locations for the attention of another computer user at a specific E-mail Address.

FAQ - (Frequently Asked Questions)

FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as Pet Grooming and Cryptography. FAQs are usually written by people who have tired of answering the same question over and over.

A combination of hardware and software that separates a Network into two or more parts for security purposes.

A vector graphic animation technology that's bandwidth friendly and browser-independent. In other words, it is a programming technique that enables movies and animation to move seamlessly across a Web browser. As long as different browsers are equipped with the necessary plugins, Flash animations will look the same. If it's on the Web and it's moving, it is probably a design using Flash.

File Transfer Protocol. Ability to transfer rapidly entire files from one computer to another, intact for viewing or other purposes.

A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. GIF format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as well as JPEG.

HEAD or HEADER (of HTML document)

The top portion of the HTML source code behind Web pages, beginning with and ending with . It contains the Title, Description, Keywords fields and others that web page authors may use to describe the page. The title appears in the title bar of most browsers, but the other fields cannot be seen as part of the body of the page. To view the portion of web pages in your browser, click VIEW, Page Source. In Internet Explorer, click VIEW, Source. Some search engines will retrieve based on text in these fields.

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language. A standardized language of computer code, imbedded in "source" documents behind all Web documents, containing the textual content, images, links to other documents (and possibly other applications such as sound or motion), and formatting instructions for display on the screen. When you view a Web page, you are looking at the product of this code working behind the scenes in conjunction with your browser. Browsers are programmed to interpret HTML for display.
HTML often imbeds within other programming languages and applications such as SGML, XML, Javascript, CGI-script and more. It is possible to deliver or access and execute virtually any program via the WWW.
You can see HTML by selecting the View pop-down menu tab, then "Document Source."

The vast collection of interconnected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols. An "internet" (lower case i) is any computers connected to each other (a network), and are not part of the Internet unless they use TCP/IP protocols.

A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use. An intranet may be on the Internet or may simply be a network.

A company that sells Internet connections via modem. Faster, more expensive Internet connectivity is available via cable, DSL, ISDN, or web-TV. Often these companies also provide Web page hosting service.

A network-oriented programming language invented by Sun Microsystems that is specifically designed for writing programs that can be safely downloaded to your computer through the Internet and immediately run without fear of viruses or other harm to our computer or files. Using small Java programs (called "Applets"), Web pages can include functions such as animations, calculators, and other fancy tricks. We can expect to see a huge variety of features added to the Web using Java, since you can write a Java program to do almost anything a regular computer program can do, and then include that Java program in a Web page.

JPEG is most commonly mentioned as a format for image files. JPEG format is preferred to the GIF format for photographic images as opposed to line art or simple logo art.

A word searched for in a search command. Keywords are searched in any order. Use spaces to separate keywords in simple keyword searching. On a search engine, for example, it's the term or phrase you type in order to begin an online search. In HTML, keywords appear in the meta tags for a Web page, where they help search engines readily identify and better index the Web site.

A popular special effect for web graphics, generally programmed in JavaScript, that changes switches color or a graphic image when you place your cursor over it. Mouseovers can also be used to trigger navigation changes and pop-up windows.

A new window that suddenly appears on your computer screen is referred to as a "pop-up window."

You'll see one, for example, when you open a new program, when you switch from program to program (that's multitasking), and when you use a drop-down menu. Likewise, a Web browser may launch a second browser that pops-up in the form of a mini-window on your computer screen. If you don't want it there, just click on the X in the upper-right corner and close it ;-)

Usually used as a marketing term to described a Web site that is or is intended to be the first place people see when using the Web. Typically a "Portal site" has a catalog of web sites, a search engine, or both. A Portal site may also offer email and other service to entice people to use that site as their main "point of entry" (hence "portal") to the Web.

A (usually web-based) system for searching the information available on the Web.

Some search engines work by automatically searching the contents of other systems and creating a database of the results. Other search engines contain only material manually approved for inclusion in a database, and some combine the two approaches.

The process of selecting targeted keywords that reflect the content of a Web site, placing them within the meta tag, creating a doorway page for each search engine, and testing the search engine results to make sure the site is well placed based on the keywords you selected. It is an art and a science which, because of the technology, is constantly evolving. Companies now exist to provide this kind of specialized service.

Also called HOST computer. A computer (or a software package) responds to requests for information. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running. Web servers are the closest equivalent to what in the print world is called the "publisher" of a print document. An important difference is that most print publishers carefully edit the content and quality of their publications in an effort to market them and future publications. This convention is not required in the Web world, where anyone can be a publisher; careful evaluation of Web pages is therefore mandatory.

A specialized language for sending queries to databases. Most industrial-strength and many smaller database applications can be addressed using SQL.

Each specific application will have its own slightly different version of SQL implementing features unique to that application, but all SQL-capable databases support a common subset of SQL.

Template

A web template is a ready-made web design. Usually a web template will include most of the source files necessary for further customizing the template using most modern WYSIWYG editors such as Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Any pre-prepared document or outline that contains text or graphics can be saved as a template and used again and again as the starting point for your new document or publication. Saving basic documents as templates saves a lot of time.

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

The unique address of any Web document. Basically it's your address of a Web page. An example is http://yourwebsite.com/page_name.html

This term is often used to mean "web page," but there is supposed to be a difference. A web page is a single entity, one URL, one file that you might find on the Web. A "site," properly speaking, is an location or gathering or center for a bunch of related pages linked to from that site. When we estimate there are 5 billion web pages on the Web, we do not mean "sites." There would be far fewer sites.

This is the most popular, most quickly growing part of the Internet and most closely resembles the printed page because it gives users a visual, magazine-style interface using hypertext linked documents. Web pages are collections of text and graphics, and with the click of the mouse, you can easily move to another Web site.

Freequently asked questions (FAQ)