Glossary

Glossary of Common Terms

Here are some terms you may encounter while working on your project with Mere!

Deploy: Verify that your website is a perfect match for the blueprints we planned, and take the site live so that your message can reach the world.

Design: Establish the layout and emphasis of your key pages with wireframes. Then, design the look and feel of all the individual pieces that make up your website. Finally, use these two elements to build mobile and desktop mockups of your website.

Development: Build your new website according to the new structure and design we’ve established in previous stages.

Discovery: Discover what’s keeping your message from reaching your audience, and find solutions so that you can communicate clearly with your audience. Gather all the content needed for your new website.

Document: a technical term describing the various models in a CMS such as Sanity. Documents include objects like pages, resources and staff members.

Grouping: A taxonomy that helps to identify a certain resource. For example, groupings could be scripture, topic, and author. A single item inside a grouping is called a Term (e.g. ‘John Piper’ is an Author).

Layout Wireframes: Page diagrams that order and prioritize the content listed for each key document.

Maintenance and Support: Keep your website online, secure, and healthy, and provide help and support as you keep your content up to date with your goals.

Mockup: A static model of your website, as it will look on a few sample screen sizes (typically mobile and desktop).

Page Content List: A bulleted list of every item on a given page. This reference list can be dead simple, such as: "Contact page: address, contact form, and social media links")

Pattern Library: A collection of components that define the visual look and feel of all your website components. The pattern library contains color and typography style definitions as well as specific element definitions for the various parts of your website: everything from buttons to headers to cards, etc.

Resource: A single item in your resource library. Can be one of many types, and contains groupings that help to identify it

Resource Type: Identifies what type a resource is grouped under. For example: article, sermon, podcast episode, etc.

Sales: Evaluate the client and point them toward the product best suited to them. In this phase, we’re sending out a pre-made proposal, tweaking it to the client’s needs (if applicable), and communicating with the client to answer questions.

Site Structure Spreadsheet: A file listing all of the contents of a client’s new website. Includes Mere’s proposed organization for all of the content the client has marked as important.

Wireframe: a layout document that sets out navigation patterns, the individual layout of major pages, and a content list for each page.