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Pekka
3rd of October 2006 (Tue), 12:39
non-alphabetial order :)


Size path
a folder where you keep a resized image file and where EE shows it from.

Thumbnail
A miniature image for navigation.

Microthumbnail
A micro-size image for (photo page) navigation.

Resize Method
Preset set of commands which resize, sharpen and watermark the image when it is uploaded to size path.

Exhibition
A collection of photos.

Gallery
Synonym to exhibition

Virtual
"not physical" - virtual exhibition does not have physical photos in it, they always belong to some other real exhibitions.

EE Backup
A tool for making and restoring SQL database backups.

EE Commerce
A way to add forms which send data to online print shops, billing services or you.

User
A person or persons who views exhibitions.

Admin
A person who alone can manage EE under the hood.

Group
A collection of exhibitions.

Structure
Tree information of how the gallery site is organized.

FTP
File Transfer Protocol. Simple language to communicate between web servers to transfer files. EE uses this extensively to move files around. This has several advantages over simple file move commands: no need to set permissions manually, automatic folder creation, remote operation, extensive reporting, void of php file function bugs...

Frame
in EE frame means photo frame.

Style
templates plus some other settings to control how EE pages look like.

Viewerstyle
Viewerstyle template + viewerstyle settings create together a way to embed any file format into EE photo page inside the frame.

Uncookied
A system which emulates cookies to maintain user's navigation state. Can do things cookies can not.

Multiarea Navigation
When this feature is in use, photo on a photo page is divided to 5 clickable area where left=previous, right=next, top=bigger, bottom=smaller and center=index.

Shorthand
A way to replace long strings with shorter ones.