Joomla and the web have many special words. These instructions explain each word the first time it is used on a page. This page lists them all in one place, in alphabetical order.
- Accordion
- A list of items where each title opens when you press it, to show the content that belongs to that title.
- Administrator area
- The private part of your Joomla site, where you manage it, and you sign in to it with your user name and password. It is also called the back end.
- Alternative text
- A short description of a picture, which a screen reader reads aloud so that people who cannot see the picture know what it shows.
- API key
- A long secret code that lets your site talk to another company's service, such as Mailchimp, and that the company gives you to keep private.
- Article
- A page of content in Joomla that you write and format with the Joomla editor.
- Association
- A link you set in Joomla that says two pages in different languages are the same page.
- Audience
- Your list of subscribers in Mailchimp, which is the list that the Webal Newsletter module signs people up to.
- Band
- A strip that runs across the whole width of the page, from one side to the other.
- Block with its own background
- A Webal module that has a background colour, picture or gradient, or a Light or Dark colour scheme.
- Business details
- Your address, phone numbers, email addresses and opening hours, which you enter once for the whole site.
- Cache
- A store of saved copies of your pages, so that Joomla can show them faster, and clearing the cache removes the saved copies.
- Call to action
- A short message that asks the visitor to do one thing, such as book a table or call you.
- Captcha
- A check that makes sure the person who sends a form is a real person.
- Caption
- A line of text shown with a picture, and a table also has a caption, which is its name.
- Carousel
- A row of slides that moves sideways, so that a visitor can look at one slide after another.
- Cassiopeia
- The standard template that comes with Joomla and gives your site its design.
- Category
- A group that articles belong to. In a Webal Charts chart, a category is one item along the bottom or the side, such as Q1. In Webal Gallery, categories let a visitor show one group of pictures at a time.
- Child theme
- A copy of a template that holds your own changes, so that Joomla updates never overwrite them.
- Colour mode
- The choice between showing the site in light colours or showing it in dark colours.
- Component
- A part of Joomla with its own screens, and Webal Blocks has one, which you find under Components in the administrator area.
- Consent
- A visitor's permission for something, which in Webal Blocks a visitor gives company by company before a video, map or feed from that company loads.
- Cookie
- A small file that a website stores in a visitor's browser, and Webal Blocks sets only one, to remember the visitor's privacy choice.
- Dark styles for Cassiopeia
- A setting in the Webal Blocks Options that makes the whole Cassiopeia page change to dark colours when the colour mode is dark, while with the setting off only the Webal parts of the page change.
- Database
- The place where Joomla stores your site's content and settings, such as your articles and menus.
- Extension
- An add-on for Joomla, where a component, a module, a plugin and a template are all kinds of extension.
- Facade
- A stand-in that Webal Blocks shows where a video or map will be, and it loads nothing from another company until the visitor presses Load.
- Feed
- A list of the newest items that a website publishes, such as the latest posts of a Facebook Page or the newest photographs of a Flickr user.
- Footer
- The band at the very bottom of every page, below the main content.
- Header row
- The first row of a table, which names each column so that the reader knows what it holds.
- Language key
- A word in capital letters joined by underscores, such as MY_MAP_CREDIT, which a language file or a Language Override turns into the words for each language.
- Language Override
- A way in Joomla to change one word that the site prints, in any language, without touching a language file, on a screen called Language Overrides that you find under System.
- Latitude and longitude
- Two numbers that give the position of a place on the map, where the longitude has a minus sign for places west of Greenwich.
- Layout
- A way of drawing something, so a menu layout is a way of drawing a menu, such as the Webal navbar or the Webal accordion menu.
- Legend
- A key on a chart that says which colour or pattern is which series, and it is also called a key.
- Machine-assisted translation
- A translation made with the help of a computer that a native speaker has not yet read, so have a native speaker read it before you use it on a live site.
- Mailchimp
- An email marketing service, and the Webal Newsletter module signs people up to your Mailchimp list.
- Mega menu
- A wide panel of columns that opens from one item of the Webal navbar.
- Menu button
- The button that opens the menu on a small screen, which is sometimes called a burger.
- Menu item
- One link in your menu, such as Home or Contact, that takes a visitor to a page.
- Menu module
- The Joomla module that shows a menu on your pages, using the layout and profile that you choose.
- Menu profile
- A saved set of choices for how a Webal menu looks and behaves, which a Menu module uses.
- Modal
- A box that opens on top of the page, so that the page behind it cannot be used until the box is closed, and it is also called a dialog.
- Module
- A block that you place on your pages, such as a heading, a slideshow or a contact form.
- Module position
- A named place in your template where you can put a module so that it shows on the page.
- Multilingual site
- A site that shows its pages in more than one language, instead of in a single language.
- Navbar profile
- A saved set of choices for the Webal navbar, which is one kind of Menu profile.
- Navigation landmark
- A marked-out area of a page that a screen reader can jump to, and each menu is one.
- Options
- The settings of the Webal Blocks component, which you open with the Options button on the Webal Blocks Dashboard.
- Package
- One zip file that installs several extensions at once, and Webal Blocks comes as a package.
- PHP
- The programming language that Joomla is written in, and that your web server needs in order to run Joomla.
- PHP extension
- An add-on that gives PHP an extra skill, such as handling pictures.
- Place
- A part of the Webal navbar where an item such as the colour switch can go, for example the top bar start or the main bar end.
- Plan
- One price package that you show in Webal Pricing, such as Basic or Team.
- Plugin
- A small add-on that works in the background and gives Joomla an extra feature.
- Poster
- The still picture that a video shows on the page before the visitor presses play.
- Preset
- A ready-made set of choices that you can start from and then fine tune to suit your site.
- Privacy policy
- The page on your site that says what you do with people's details.
- Quick setup
- A panel at the top of the Navbar profile and Mega menu screens, which gathers the choices most people make first.
- Region
- A part of a Webal navigation bar that can hold one or more modules.
- Rem
- A unit of space that grows with the text size of the page.
- Screen reader
- Software that reads the screen aloud, for people who are blind or have low vision.
- Script
- A small program that runs in the visitor's browser, and when scripts are switched off, every Webal module shows a plain version that still works.
- Series
- One set of numbers in a chart, for example the visits for each quarter.
- Slide
- One single item in a slider, a carousel or a slideshow, as the visitor moves along it.
- Slider
- A row of items, such as cards, that moves sideways, and visitors move it with arrows, dots, a swipe or the arrow keys.
- Structured data
- A block of facts, hidden in the page, that search engines can read.
- Super User
- A person who has every right on a Joomla site and can change anything on it.
- Tag
- A label that you add to an article to describe what it is about.
- Template
- The design of your whole site: the header, the footer and the page grid.
- Template style
- A saved set of settings for a template, and a site can have several styles of one template.
- Thumbnail
- A small copy of a picture, used to stand in for the full-size picture.
- Time zone
- The clock of a place, and your site has one, set in Joomla's Global Configuration as Website Time Zone.
- Trigger
- The menu item in the navbar that a mega menu panel opens from.
- Viewer
- A window that shows one picture large, and in Webal Gallery it has a Previous item button, a Next item button and a Close button.
- WCAG
- The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which say how to make web pages usable by everyone, and Webal Blocks is tested against WCAG 2.2 level AA.
- WebP
- A picture format that makes the files smaller, so that your pages load faster for visitors.
- WebP copies
- Smaller versions of your pictures in the WebP format, made by Webal Blocks at several widths so that a phone fetches a small file and a wide screen a larger one. Your original pictures are never changed.