An Administrator has charge of his/her organisation's web site. They have access to do everything, but they can also create combinations of Readers, Writers, Caretakers and Publishers to have access to use the folders. See Overview about Users.
An Anonymous Browser (or browser) is someone browsing through Webstore who is not logged in as a user to an organisation. They have access to read all published folders and page groups for any organisation. See Overview about Users.
Page groups uploaded onto Webstore can be web pages, but also any other type of file such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, images etc. See Add Page Group Overview.
Webstore has been developed in and between York LEA and York Schools. See Best Practice in York.
You need to use a piece of software called a 'Browser' to read web pages and move around the Internet. Internet Explorer is one example of a Browser. Hence people 'browsing' web pages on the Internet are browsers. Webstore also has its own unique 'Browse View'. See 'browse view'.
Webstore has its own unique 'Browse View' which has been designed specifically to allow users to see web pages and files on Webstore but without needing hyperlinks and all the management that this requires. See Introduction to Webstore.
A Webstore user who has been given a folder to 'own' by their administrator. The Caretaker looks after the folder, and can make changes to the folder, the page groups, the readers and the writers. They can also 'mark' page groups to recommend them for publication. See Overview about Users and Detailed User Specification.
The name for the main folders that hold the organisations, eg when you click on browse on the main Webstore home page you will see a category folder called 'York as a learning City'.
The date at the end of the page group's time-to-live when the page group expires to the archive folder. Only the administrator has access to this archive folder. See Introduction to Webstore and 'Completing the Page Group Details Page' on Add Page Group without a subfolder.
Frequently Asked Questions. See FAQs.
Internet Explorer allows you save a list of favourite web addresses (URL's). See 'Highlighting a favourite page to come back to later' near the bottom of First Time Users start here.
Webstore's browse view shows folders containing page groups of web pages or other files. See Browse (Public) and Overview of Folder Options.
An Anonymous Browser has access to all published folders to read published page groups for any organisation. An Administrator has access to do everything, but they can also create combinations of Readers, Writers, Caretakers and Publishers to have access to use the folders. See Overview about Users and Change Folder Access Groups.
A group of users can have access to different folders to do different things. See User and Group Manager and Change Folder Access Groups.
The status of a page group when it is only visible to other logged on members of the same organisation and not anonymous browsers. See Browse (Logged on).
The main index or introduction page of any web site, linked to by the main web address or URL. See Browse (Public).
Each organisation on Webstore can assign a single web page or a set of linked web pages as their home page. See Browse (Public) and Assigning a Home Page. They can also hyperlink to the unique Webstore browse view. See Hyperlinking in Webstore.
The language that web pages are written in, standing for HyperText Markup Language. See 'page group'.
The name given to a link between one web page and another. The word(s) is/are usually underlined and when you click link into that web page. You can easily hyperlink from Webstore to elsewhere on the Internet, but Webstore has been designed to organise its own links within its structure. For a fuller discussion see Hyperlinking in Webstore.
The name given to a little picture or representation of an application or program that starts the program when it is clicked upon.
A web page that has been published can be assigned as an index page to give information about the other page groups within a folder. It means the icon for the page group becomes a red house, and this icon always remains at the top of that folder above all other sub folders and page groups. See Assigning an Index Page.
You need to use a piece of software called a 'Browser' to read web pages and move around the Internet. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is one example of a Browser. Hence people 'browse' web pages on the Internet. Webstore is designed to work with Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 5 or later.
A member of Webstore needs to log on to make changes in some way to their organisation. See Log On and Overview about Users.
Web pages that are linked together by hyperlinks. A single web page group on Webstore can consist of lots of web pages linked together. See Add Page Group Overview.
When you upload a page group on to Webstore you can choose keywords to identify your page. The same list of keywords is available with the search function to enable people interested in those subjects to find the relevant page groups. See Search and 'Completing the Page Group Details Page' on Add Page Group without a subfolder.
Page groups that a caretaker considers to be 'suitable to be published' can be 'marked for publication' on the page group options menu. An administrator can directly search for 'marked page groups' to enable quick and easy publishing. In this way an organisation can share out the responsibility for proof reading content which is then published. See Change Page Group Properties.
Members of an organisation are Webstore users who have a username and password to be able to use all the functions available when they are logged on. See Log On and Browse (Logged on).
See 'home page groups'.
When you upload a page group on to Webstore you always need to complete a page group details page. This page includes choosing keywords to identify your page to other users, and a time-to-live for when the page group expires to the archive folder. See 'Completing the Page Group Details Page' on Add Page Group without a subfolder.
Page group is a generic Webstore word for any type of file uploaded into a Webstore shared folder. Page groups uploaded onto Webstore can be web pages, links to web pages, and also any other type of file such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, images etc. Web pages and links have a different structure from most other types of file, and therefore five slightly different upload methods are required. See Add Page Group Overview.
A page group has a page status associated with it, according to whether its folder's caretaker or publisher wants it to be publicly viewed or not. Any page group has a status 'hidden' when it is first uploaded and can be viewed only by other users of that folder. It can then be 'published' by a publisher, or 'marked' for publishing by a caretaker. See Change Page Group Properties and Overview about Users.
A member of Webstore, ie a Webstore user, needs a username and password to be able to log on. See Log On
Users can each be given a private web folder on Webstore. Using this, users can store any files they wish for anywhere, anytime access. See Private Folder Overview.
When a page group is uploaded onto Webstore it is always hidden and is only visible to other logged on members of the same organisation and not anonymous browsers. A Publisher for that folder is able to publish the page group(s) so that any browser can read it/them. See Browse (Logged on).
A Webstore user who has been given access by their administrator to publish page groups. See 'publish', Change Page Group Properties, Overview about Users and Detailed User Specification.
An organisation automatically gets 20Mb web space for shared folders when they join Webstore. Individual users within an organisation usually have their own private folder quota agreed with their organisation's administrator. If you go over your quota then you get an error message - see Quota Management.
A Webstore user who has been given access by their administrator to read content in particular folders. See Overview about Users and Detailed User Specification [link to 09].
See 'time-to-live'.
The main function on Webstore, along with Browse, for finding content. See Search.
The level of service that user organisations can expect of Webstore. See 'terms and conditions'.
The unique name that identifies an organisation in the Webstore URL when you view a page group, e.g. http://www.webstore-ed.net/sample/page group. For a fuller discussion see Hyperlinking in Webstore.
The unique name that identifies a folder within an organisation in the Webstore URL when you view a page group, e.g. http://www.webstore-ed.net/sample/folder/page group. The short web folder name can only be created when the folder itself is created. It cannot be changed later. See Change Folder Properties and Hyperlinking in Webstore.
When a page group is uploaded consisting of several web pages the first page, or start page, must be identified on the upload page. See Add Page Group without a subfolder.
See 'page status'.
A folder within a folder. See 'folders'.
When a page group is uploaded onto Webstore it is always hidden and is only visible to other logged on members of the same organisation and not anonymous browsers. A Publisher for that folder is able to publish the page group(s) so that any browser can read it/them. In addition to this, the caretaker for that folder is able to 'mark' the page group as suitable for publication. See Change Page Group Properties.
See 'Join Webstore' for the terms and conditions, quota arrangements and service level agreement for joining and using Webstore.
Every time a page group is uploaded on to Webstore, the user must choose a time-to-live for that page group. (The default time-to-live is one month). On that date the page group expires to the archive folder. The user receives an e-mail expiry Reminder from Webstore a fortnight before this date, giving the user the choice to change the time-to-live for that page group. See Introduction to Webstore and 'Completing the Page Group Details Page' on Add Page Group without a subfolder.
The process of adding a page group into a folder on Webstore. Webstore uses Microsoft's web publishing wizard to do this. See Add Page Group without a subfolder and Download Web Publishing Wizard.
Universal Resource Locator. The technical name for a web address, e.g. http://www.webstore-ed.net/sample/folder/page group
A Webstore user can make changes in some way to their organisation on Webstore when they are logged on. See Overview about Users.
A member of Webstore, ie a Webstore user, needs a username and password to be able to log on. See Log On
See 'browse(r)'.
See 'private folder'.
See 'page group(s)'.
See 'upload'.
Webstore has a web page group wizard which means a user can create a web page containing text and pictures online. See Page Group wizard.
A Webstore user who has been given access by their administrator to write (upload) page groups into particular folders. See Overview about Users and Detailed User Specification.