{"id":1083,"date":"2018-08-26T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/?page_id=1083"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:05:42","slug":"helpful-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/helpful-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpful terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>General Computing <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte,\u00a0 Gigabyte\n<ul>\n<li>Examples: A jpg image optimized for the web is perhaps 100 to 400 kilobytes (kb); a high quality digital photo is perhaps 24 megabytes (mb); your computer probably has 500 to 1,000 gigabytes of storage (gb).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Unix \/ Linux &#8211; Operating system underlying many computer operating systems and network server systems<\/li>\n<li>PC vs Mac &#8211; PC means &#8220;personal computer&#8221; but it&#8217;s often used to contrast Windows or Linux systems with Mac systems. Technically, Macs are also &#8220;personal computers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Networking\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modems \u2013 Dial-up (old), DSL,\u00a0 cable, FIOS (fiber optic service)<\/li>\n<li>FTP \u2013 File transfer protocol\u00a0 &#8211; upload &amp; download files<\/li>\n<li>SSH &#8211; Secure Shell &#8211; secure text commands<\/li>\n<li>URL &#8212; Universal resource locator, aka. Domain name<\/li>\n<li>Top level domain name (edu, com, org, gov, etc)<\/li>\n<li>HTML\u00a0 code\n<ul>\n<li>Link:\u00a0 \u00a0&lt;a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/somewhere.org\u201d&gt; Link Text &lt;\/a&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Image:\u00a0 &lt;img src=\u201d\u201dhttp:\/\/somewhere.org\/rainbow.jpg\u201d&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Text formatting (example) &lt;h1&gt; Headlines &lt;\/h1&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Lists (example) &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; Unordered List item &lt;\/li&gt;\u00a0 &lt;li&gt; another unordered list item &lt;\/li&gt;\u00a0 &lt;\/ul&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>HTTP \u2013 hyper text transfer protocol<\/li>\n<li>HTTPS &#8211; hyper text transfer protocol secure.<\/li>\n<li>SMS &#8211; Short message service<\/li>\n<li>SSL &#8212; Secure socket layer (for https \/ not http )<\/li>\n<li>SEO &#8212; Search engine optimization<\/li>\n<li>Tags in FB, WordPress, html coding<\/li>\n<li>Web hosting services (Bluehost, GoDaddy, many others etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WordPress and other CMS systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CMS dynamic pages vs HTML static pages<\/li>\n<li>Theme &#8211; basic style of a site for browser display<\/li>\n<li>Mobile phone display \u2013\u00a0 AMP \u2013 Accelerated Mobile Pages<\/li>\n<li>Widgets &#8211; add-on content modules<\/li>\n<li>Plugins\u00a0 &#8211; add-on capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Pages vs Posts &#8211; In a CMS, a post is a transient front-page bit of information, while a page is intended to be more permanent.<\/li>\n<li>Sticky posts &amp; pages &#8211; &#8220;stick&#8221; to the top of the stack<\/li>\n<li>Trackback &#8212; Author notified of links &#8211; AKA<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linkback\"> Linkback\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tags &#8212; simple html code snippets such as &#8220;embed tags&#8221; for embedding inline audio or video in a WordPress page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Imaging\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pixel &#8211; Picture information cell<\/li>\n<li>Image mode vs format\n<ul>\n<li>Modes \u2014 Greyscale (black &amp; white, print or web), Indexed (low-res web), RGB (web), CMYK (print)<\/li>\n<li>Formats \u2014 jpg, gif, png, tiff, (and others)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Computing Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte,\u00a0 Gigabyte Examples: A jpg image optimized for the web is perhaps 100 to 400 kilobytes (kb); a high quality digital photo is perhaps 24 megabytes (mb); your computer probably has 500 to 1,000 gigabytes of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/helpful-terms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1083\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/viscomm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}