Glossary of terms
All Norfolk
A search on ‘All Norfolk’ will search all websites which
are included in the Norfolk Portal, rather than search the single website
from which the search is initiated.
Look and Feel
The ‘look and feel’ of a website relates to its design,
layout and accessibility in terms of use of colours, headings, graphics, text,
drop-down menus, etc. The Norfolk Portal is delivered in accordance with
the look and feel of websites on which it resides, it does not have its own
unique look and feel. The ‘look and feel’ is sometimes referred to as the
‘livery’ of the website.
Portal
See Virtual Portal below.
Questions file
A Questions file is used to document the key words to be
associated with specific web information, allowing recommended links to be
displayed.
Recommended links
Recommended
links associate terms and phrases with web documents, such that when the terms
and phrases are used as search criteria, links to documents will be displayed
before the list of other search results. Recommended links are likely to
be used when there is an obvious choice of where to direct the searcher.
Search box
A search box is the box displayed on the screen in which
the user types the search criteria.
Search engine
A search
engine is the software which finds relevant information in response to the
keywords and phrases typed into a search box.
Search Provider
A Search Provider is a company which provides a search
facility for web-based information.
Spider
A spider is the software which creates indexes for the
search engine to use. In terms of the Norfolk Portal the spider indexes information
across all websites of participating organisations.
Style Guide
A Style
Guide defines the appearance of information to be displayed in terms layout,
fonts, colour, etc to give a coherent look and feel to all information from
a given website. It describes HOW information should be displayed rather
than WHAT the content should be.
Virtual Portal
A Portal is a website which aims to be the first port of
call, or a ‘one stop shop’, for Internet users. In the case of the Norfolk
Portal it is intended to be the best place to start searching for any information
relating to Norfolk public services. The Norfolk Portal is called a Virtual
Portal as it does not have its own website and ‘look and feel’, it can only
be found on the websites of participating organisations in the ‘look and feel’
of those organisations.
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