Glossary

Blending Mode - Photoshop layers can be set to different blending modes so that the information on that layer is portrayed differently. Blending Mode can be set in the Layers Palette.

Burn Tool - This Photoshop Tool is used to darken or shadow a part of a photo. The tool acts just like the brush tool except for the fact that no pixels will be created nor destroyed.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - A standards based set of instructions to display a web page.

Dodge Tool - This Photoshop Tool is used to brighten or highlight a part of a photo. The tool acts just like the brush tool except for the fact that no pixels will be created nor destroyed.

Mootools - An open-source compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.

Ruby - A programming language developed in the early 1990′s that gained popularity when combined to create Ruby on Rails.

Rails - A web application framework that emphasizes the model-view-controller design pattern of development. Rails, when combined with programming languages like Ruby, allows for developers to quick create of interactive database-driven web applications.