ArtistInsite™

An online gallery system which allows artists to easily and effectively create their own online galleries to display their work anywhere in the world.

Blog

A blog (short for web log) is a user-generated
website where dialogue occurs amongst Internet communities.

Caption

A title, short explanation, or description accompanying an image.

Clickable

An image or text that you can click on with the mouse to bring up another image, text message or website

Content management system (CMS)

A website management system that enables you to manage your own website content

Copy (words)

Written content in publications, in contrast to photographs or other elements of layout

Cropping

To trim off portions of an image to change it’s shape and size

CRT

This is a computer screen that has a tube in like a traditional television

Database

A database can be defined as a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer so that a program can consult it to answer queries.

Display

Computer Screen

Domain Name

A name that identifies a website address on the Internet. These names appear as the Website name or URL, e.g. www.nichdesign.co.nz

Download time

This is the amount of time files take to be transferred or to open on the Internet.

Email

Electronic mail (abbreviated "e-mail" or, often, "email") is a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Footer

The bottom panel of an Internet page

Foxhat

Foxhat is the Internet software we’ve developed to make websites like ArtistInsite™ and New Zealand Wine Maps workable as cost effective solutions for everyday people needing an Internet presence.

Header

The top panel of an Internet page.

Header Tags

The tags give the search engines clues as to the importance of the headlines.

Home

Your home page on your website, the first page of your site that visitors see.

Hosting

The service of providing computer space to serve websites up to the Internet.

Hyperlink

A link in a document that takes you to another place in another or the same document.

Image (picture)

Digital picture of your art

Import

To bring data into a website.

Jpeg (jpg)

A commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images. The name JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee who created the standard.

Keywords

Keywords are used to optimise your websites ranking through the search engines

LCD

A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field; used for portable computer displays and watches etc.

Login

The process by which individual access to a computer system is controlled by identification of the user in order to obtain credentials to permit access.

Logo

This is your unique symbol or typography that represents you and your work.

Meta Tag

Meta elements provide information about a given web page, most often to help search engines categorize them correctly.

Mouse Over

The term used to indicate a change that appears under your mouse pointer when you pass over any screen object that has an active link.

Password

A form of secret authentication for your entry to the website administration area.

Pixel

A pixel (short for picture element, using the common abbreviation "pix" for "picture") is a single point in a graphic image.

Profile

Personal information about you and your work.

Reciprocal Link

When you link to someone’s website on the basis that they have linked to your website or vice versa.

Re-establish

Restoration to a previous state

Resize

Change the size of; make the size more appropriate

Reviews

A report or essay giving a critical estimate of a work or performance.

Save

To copy (a file) from a computer’s main memory to a disk or other storage medium, to save the changes you have made to your website.

Screen Resolution

The display resolution of a digital television or computer display 72 dpi typically refers to the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.

Search engine

An information retrieval system designed to help find stored information, such as on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network, or in a personal computer.

Server

A computer that provides services to other computers, or the internet

Tags

Keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.

Thumbnail

A reduced-size version of a picture

Title

The name of a your work, such as a book, film, piece of art, audio recording or website

Traffic

The number of visitors to a website.

Unique visitors

A statistic describing a unit of traffic to a Web site, counting each visitor only once in the time frame of the report. This statistic is relevant to site publishers and advertisers as a measure of a site’s true audience size

User Name

Users may need to identify themselves for the purposes of security, and so they can login using their user names and password. It is often referred to as authentication.

Visitor Session

This is when someone visits your site.

Website Address

See domain name

Website Name

See domain name

Words (copy)

Written content in publications, in contrast to photographs or other elements of layout

URL

This is your website address