Glossary of Terms
Asset
A piece of media such as a picture, a Flash animation, or a video that exists in your library but may or may not have been placed onto a particular slide. SlideRocket remembers each asset you use and makes them available to you at any time. Once you place an asset onto a slide it becomes an element on that particular slide. For example, when you upload a picture into SlideRocket it is an asset. Once you assign it to a slide, it is an image element.
Background
Sits underneath a layout and may be a solid color, an image, a fill, or a gradient. For example, you might use the same layout with a black background on one slide, a gray background on a second slide, and an image background on a third.
Element
Something that has been placed onto a slide, like a text box, a picture, a chart, or a table. An asset is referred to as an element once it has been placed onto a slide. For example, when you upload a picture into SlideRocket it is an image asset. Once you assign it to a slide, it is an image element.
Layout
Defines how elements are arranged on a slide. For example, you may want to have a text box for your slide title along the top, another text box for your bullet points in the body of the slide, and an image on the right.
Placeholder
Layouts use placeholders to indicate elements that are going to be assigned on a slide-by-slide basis. For example, a title box would be a text placeholder, the text box for the bullet points would be another text placeholder, and you might have an image placeholder on the right of the layout. Once you assign that layout to a slide, you would fill in the title, bullet points, and image for that particular slide. You might use the same layout on the next slide, but you would fill in a different title, different bullet points, and a different image.
Presentation
A group of slides. You can see and manage all of the presentations that you have created in the library. You can also share your presentations via Web link or online meeting from the Library interface.
Slide
A collection of media elements that may be text, images, Flash animations, videos, shapes (rectangles, ellipses, lines, etc.), charts, and tables. You create and update the content of your slides in the Editor.
Slide Library
SlideRocket automatically remembers every slide you create and gives you access to your slide library at any time. You can view all of your slides or just the ones that you have designated for sharing.
Theme
A collection of layouts and backgrounds. Changing the theme can change the entire look and feel of a presentation.
