EPK: Short for “electronic press kit”. This is just a computer or web version of an artist’s publicity material: biography, pictures, showreel, news, etc. There are loads of sites with advice on compiling a good one.

Digital Distribution: Distribution of music online, i.e., downloads.

Cadenza: Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist; later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto, featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist.

Camera-ready copy: Final publication material that is ready to be made into a negative for a printing plate. May be a computer file or actual print and images on a board.

Default Page: The default page setting should be set to whatever the default (or index) page is in your site’s directories. Usually, this will be ‘index.html’, but on Windows IIS servers, it is often ‘Default.htm’ or ‘index.htm’. This information allows Google Analytics to reconcile log entries such as ‘http://www.example.com/’ and ‘http://www.example.com/index.html’, which are in fact […]

Campaign Optimization: A feature that automatically manages campaigns for you to help maximize the effectiveness of your spending, based on guidelines you provide. Campaign optimization saves you time while helping you achieve your business objectives.

Displacement Map: A recent advance on Bump Mapping. Like a Bump Map, a Displacement Map is a black-and-white image that a 3D software package projects over the surface of a model to generate surface detail. Unlike a bump map, however, a Displacement Map modifies the actual underlying geometry and is not merely a rendering effect.