My passion is web development, but I also enjoy artwork from time to time, although I often ‘refer to a friend’ when I just can’t get colours or effects right on the screen.

I would like to discuss website development using Open Source applications. In particular Joomla.

A lot of people out there still think about their website and count the amount of pages they should have on their website.

Very important to realize is that you do not want a website that will only act like a brochure, with beautiful pictures and a page displaying your contact information. Instead, your website should be interactive and work towards a goal. What you want that goal to be might be one or more of many things. This must form the foundation of your plan for your website and you should structure everything else around that.

If you ask Google to define the word ‘jargon’, you’ll find the following: “Jargon is terminology that relates to a specific activity, profession or group. Much like slang it develops as a kind of shorthand, to quickly express ideas that are frequently discussed between members of a group. In many cases a standard term may be given a more precise or specialized usage among practitioners of a field.”

So Joomla jargon will be the words or phrases that you will see us use, stuff unique, and sometimes not so unique, to Joomla. Understanding this jargon is of vital importance to you in your plan to understand and work with Joomla. So here is a list of frequently used Joomla jargon.