Glossary

One of two content types that are part of the basic, standard offering in Acquia. Articles are used for time-sensitive content like news, press releases and blog posts.

One of the two content types that are part of the basic, standard offering in Acquia. Typically used for static content that can (but are not required) to be linked into the main navigation bar.

The text, images, and other information on a website. Besides nodes there is more content on a typical Acquia site, such as comments and file attachments.

Every node belongs to a single “node type” or “content type”, which defines various default settings for nodes of that type, such as whether the node is published automatically and whether comments are permitted. Common “Content Types” that just about any website would have include: page, article, event, and person page. Content types can have different fields and modules can define their own content types. 

A user intuitive way to create content. Layout Paragraphs allows users to have the greatest flexibility when creating content while adhering to UCLA Health brand guidelines and accessibility requirements.

A piece of content in Acquia, typically corresponding to a single page on the site, that has a title, an optional body, and perhaps additional fields. Every node also belongs to a particular content type, and can additionally be classified using the taxonomy system. Examples of nodes are polls, Articles, Basic pages, and images.

In Acquia terms, a unique, last part of the URL for a specific function or piece of content. For instance, a page whose full URL is http://example.com/?=node/7, the path is "node/7". 

In Acquia, a tool for controlling access to content creation, modification and site administration at the application level.

Sets of permissions that can be applied to individual users. Users can belong to more than one role.

Term used by Layout Paragraphs to refer to the columns in your row. You can have up to four columns in a row. 

An organizational keyword, known in other systems as categories or metadata. A term is a label that can be applied to a node. They are also known as tags.

Taxonomy is the name of a powerful module that gives your sites use of terms. In Acquia, these terms are gathered within vocabularies which the Taxonomy module allows you to create, manage and apply.

 A file or collection of files (PHP, INFO, CSS, JPG, GIF, PNG), which together determine the look and feel of a site. A theme contains elements such as the header, icons, block layout, etc. Acquia modules define theme-able functions which can be overridden by the theme file.

What You See Is What You Get. An acronym used in computing to describe a method in which content is edited and formatted by interacting with an interface that closely resembles the final product.