Glossary

directory

This word is used interchangeably with folder your home directory and home folder are the same thing.

home folder

This is the default folder for your user on your computer. OsX - /Users/username/, Windows - C:Users/username/, Unix and Linux - /home/username,

On OsX and Unix/Unix-Like systems it can also be represented by ~ such as seing /Users/username is the same as ~

terminal

When used this is refering to the program used to work in the command line based environment. examples: OsX program named terminal, Windows programs Command Prompt and Powershell

superuser

refers to a user with admin privelages. On Unix if you run a command prefixed with sudo it runs the command as a super user.

project folder

~/3color-Press and folders within that holds all your custom content for your website. It is located in the user’s home directory.

content folder

This is a folder inside the project folder that will hold your page files. They are book, news, single and co-respond with the page type.

site-packages

The default install location for python packages. /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages on osX

page file

This is a text file located in content folder that will be generated into a website page. When you need to create a new page, you just need to create a new page file!

page type

the type of page on your website to be made. Co-responds with the folders in content folder. As of now page types are book, news, and single. news pages are for news posts and updates book pages are for storyline/comic pages single pages are for custom one off pages such as “about me” or “characters”

page header

This is the information in the top of a page file see Page Management

page body

The page body is the part of a page file that starts an empty space after the page header. The content of that page can now be written in the markdown syntax or even html.