Everyone knows what CMS is?
Content management system like WordPress, joomla, drupal,etc?
All bits of information in a website, is assembled into 'articles'. Each article has title text pictures, links all composed very much like any editor in html.
Each article is put into categories or sub categories. Articles in each category or sub-category can be ordered by title, or date. For each category or article you can decide how it will be displayed as a list of titles like we have in forthcoming titles, or as category blogs.
Each category or article can be linked to one or two menu items in the different menus that are there. Eg on this website we currently have main menu, older posts, most read posts. In our case I have put forthcoming meets also as the first or home page.
A menu is a list of options/menu -items, whereas module in the way in which the results (usually articles) within that menu item is presented in the space allotted to it. (Phew I kept getting confused earlier of why everytime I had to make similar entries once in menu items and then link it to a module. and unless it is linked to a module where is no place and order in which that data is displayed. It may as well not be present in the website.)
Now all the content, categories are displayed on the screen according to a template which decides in which position, which menu, or article or category is displayed. We have made one common template for all categories for simplicity sake. But the template can programme the menus, fonts colours , for each different category..and this what you pay a website designer for.
You can have all kind of things like banners, flashes, pop ups etc.. but we will try and stick to basics, because we want more people to do data entry. As a user, you can be guest which means you can only look and not touch...