GLOSSARY OF TERMS

BLOG PARTS AND PURPOSES (not in alphabetical order):

Blog: Short for ‘web log.' An easily updated website usually focused around one topic.

Header (Banner):  The topmost part of the blog, usually listing the blog title.
Footer: The bottommost part of the blog often listing navigation and copyright statements.
Sidebar: One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page.
Categories: A collection of topic specific posts.
Post (Entry): Individual articles that make up a blog.
Comments: Enabling readers to leave their remarks.
Captcha: Short for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." The word and letter verification images you need to type in to show you are human.
Permalink: A link to a specific article.
Tags: Labelling/attaching keywords to collect similar posts.
Tag cloud: Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.
Blogroll: List of links to other blogs in your sidebar.
Template: The overall blog presentation design.
Plugins: Small files that add improved functionality and new features.
Dashboard: When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.
Archives: A collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized in various ways.
Expandable post summaries: Show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post.
Jump: The continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.
FTP: Short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla.
Button/Gadget/Widget: An application, or a component of an interface, that enables a user to perform a function or access a service.
Feedburner: FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to blogs, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers.
Spam: The use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
SEO: "Search Engine Optimization." It is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid search results.
Monetization: The addition of advertising to generate revenue on a blog.
TrackBack: A system that lets a blogger see who has seen their original post and has written another entry about it.
RSS: A popular feed format. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
Categories/Tags/Labels: A way to organize writings/posts, added before publishing so that readers can easily navigate content.
HTML: "Hyper Text Markup Language." A standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets are used to format the layout of web pages.
URL: Stands for "Uniform Resource Locator." A URL is the address of a specific Web site or file on the Internet. It cannot have spaces or certain other characters and uses forward slashes to denote different directories.
HT: means Hat Tip, used mostly in the web world, if you find something that another blogger has written about and you mention it also, you give the original writer a hat tip (in the footer, HT: blog you saw it on/url etc.)

OTHER BLOGGING COLLOQUIALISMS:

infographic: visual representations of ... meaning and understanding

blug: blog hug, or virtual hug
destash: Clean out all your craft supplies and make something with the excess, or give it away, sell it, toss it. (usually to make room for more stash).
junkie: A person who really loves to collect, buy, sell, etc. (almost addicted to)a certain thing, such as antiques, blogging, surfing the web etc.
hubs/hubbs/hubby: A shorter version of husband
lurve: Love, a strong expression of appreciation.
wv: "wv" in the comment section means "word verification." Often, comments require a word verification before they can post. And sometimes those jumbled letters actually spell something quite fitting, funny, or both. Some commenters like to include their "wv" along with their comment to share the joke. It might look something like this: wv: smilly "A silly smile." Think Balderdash of the blog world.

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