Learn how to manage notices and alerts on your colorado.gov website.

 
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Glossary

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Accordion – 

Action Menu – The Action Menu is the secondary menu. This menu appears when one of the tabs in the Admin menu has been selected. This menu shows the different actions a user can take.

Active User – 

Admin Menu – The Admin Menu is the upper most menu that appears on the screen when the user is logged in. This menu appears black.

Alert – 

Alternate Jumbotron – Alternate Jumbotrons can be created that can be used on additional site landing pages.

Anchor – 

Archived – 

Article – 

Auth0 – 


B

Basic Card – 

Basic Page – 

Block – A Block is a region of content. Blocks are chunks of the site that can be populated. A block could be a row, a card, or neither, such as the footer or Jumbotron.

Blocked User – 

Blog – Blog entries are a content type used to highlight timely information that is relevant to the entity. The three most recently published blog entries will populate in the Blog View Card that can be added to any page, with older entries being accessible via the view all link.

Button – A Button is an aesthetic choice for a link that the active user can add in the WYSIWYG of a page. The button is more prominent than a link and can be added in one of many styles. Buttons are also referred to as Call to Actions.


C

CAPTCHA – 

Card – A Card is a type of content that can be added to the page. Content has been broken up into Cards to enable the WYSIWYG to be more user friendly. Card options include Basic, Map, Icon, Open Embed, and View. Card types can also be called paragraphs.

Carousel Card – 

Clone – 

CMS – 

Content – Content is material that the users have added to the site. Content types are organized into cards which are placed on the site in rows. Content can also be added directly into the body of a page using its body content WYSIWYG.

Content Administrator – 

Content Editor – 

Custom Block – A block is a region of space on the site. By creating a block, Users can highlight a specific paragraph, links, new information, events, videos, and more.

Custom Block Library – 


D

Draft – 


E

Embed – 

Entity Header – The Entity Header is one of the most visible regions of the website; it appears above the top navigation menu across the entire site. The banner can consist of logos, slogans, and/or contact information.

Event – An event is an occasion that will take place on a specified date/time. Events that are created will automatically populate the Events page and the Events Calendar. The events calendar is accessible through the View Card and Mini Calendar View.


F

Font Awesome – 

Footer – The footer region displays across the entire site. Popular links for the footer region includes; contact information pages, career information pages, About Us pages, and other entity sites. Custom Footer regions can be created using Custom Blocks – Row Blocks.


G

Global Footer – 

Global Settings – Global Settings are settings that remain true across the entire site.

Google Analytics – 


H

Heading – 

Hero Row –


I

Icon – An Icon is call to action button that can be created using an Icon Card.

Icon Card – 

Image Card – 

Info Slide – 


J

Jumbo Slide – 

Jumbotron – The large image the stretches over the landing page of the site.


L

Landing Page – 

Layouts – 

Link – Links lists highlight featured internal and/or external links within a homepage block of the site.

Link-it – 

List – A List is a running tally of all instances of a certain item within the site.


M

Map Card – 

Media Card – 

Media Library – 

Menu – A Menu is a selection of tabs within a page.

Moderated Content – 


N

News – News entries are a content type used to highlight timely information that is relevant to the entity. The three most recently published news entries will populate in the News View card on any page, with older entries being accessible via the view all link.

Node – A Node is an individual piece of content (media, card, etc.) that is trackable on the site.


O

Open Embed Card – An Open Embed is a card that allows the entity to add custom code to a page without accessing the source code. One example of how Open Embed Cards can be used is for social media feeds. 


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Page – Pages make up much of the content on the most sites. They provide information on a specific topic to end users and can contain images, links, iframes, and more.

Page Menu – The Page Menu is the menu that shows up on the individual pages. This menu varies with user roles. Pages can often be edited directly from this menu. The page menu changes depending on which page you are on and which level of page (are you in an editing view or not).

Press Release – A press release is an article type that can be isolated and sorted from both other kinds of articles (blogs, and news).

Published – 


R

reCAPTCHA – 

Reference Menu – 

Revision – 

Roles – 

Row – A Row is a way to horizontally organize cards and the content within them.


S

ShareThis – 

Social Icons – These links help increase referral traffic from the site to the entity’s social media pages. If utilized, these icons display in the bottom right across the entire site.

Structure – 

Structure Administrator – 


T

Tab – A Tab is a selection that can be made in a menu.

Tabs Card – 

Taxonomy – 


U

URL Alias – 

URL Redirect – 

User – 

User Administrator – 


V

View – A View is a way of collecting and seeing material. An example View could be the page where all content is seen.

View Card – The view card allows entities to insert cards with recent blog posts, articles, or the mini calendar to a page.


W

Webform Card – 

Webforms – Webforms allow end users to contact the entity directly through the website, complete website surveys, or provide other information using these customizable forms.

WYSIWYG – This is the toolbar within the body of a card. It stands for What You See Is What You Get.