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Pollstar100 WCM
The Pollstar100 Web Content Manager.  


Designer
Developer
Within the context of the Pollstar100 WCM, these terms mean someone who creates web-based applications; and is our intended audience.
 
 
End-user  
Within the context of the Pollstar100 WCM, this means someone who uses a web-based application created by the Designer/Developer.  
 
 
Default Implementation  
The default implementation refers to the uncustomised states and values of the Pollstar100 Components, Properties and Control Variables.  
 
 
Static And Dynamic Data/Information  
within the context of the Pollstar100 WCM, this refers to the distinction between data defined in the Sample Data Set and data defined in the Custom XML file.  
 
 
UI
GUI
(Graphical) User Interface. Within the context of the Pollstar100 WCM, this is what the end-user gets to see and interact with through their web-browser.


UTF-8
UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format-8. It is an octet (8-bit) lossless encoding of Unicode characters. UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number of 1 to 4 octets, where the number of octets depends on the integer value assigned to the Unicode character. If you wish to provide scientific symbols or multi-lingual text data that require the use of extended character sets then you must ensure that you save your Custom XML file and Sample Data File in UTF-8 format. For example, in notepad choose UTF-8 from the encoding drop-down list on the Save As dialog box.  
  
 
Flash IDE  
A Flash Integrated Development Environment such as Macromedias' Flash MX2004 Authoring Tool.  
 
 
Webhost  
Webserver  
A machine that hosts a website.  
 
 
Webroot  
This is the lowest level directory on a webserver that can be accessed from a web-browser. It is where the index.html 'home page' resides, which is the opening page displayed in the browser when a visitor first enters a web site.  
 
 
Client  
Webclient  
Local Machine  
Within the context of the Pollstar100 WCM, this is likely to be a machine with web access that is not a webserver and is likely to be either your development platform or the machine the end-user uses to interact with the Pollstar100 WCM.