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AuthorIT Website Manager stores content separately from design and function, then assembles and delivers requested page dynamically, tailored for individual visitor. Program enables organizations to deliver websites that adjust to visitor based on browser, language, and device, including palm pilots, PDAs, Pocket PCs, Blackberrys, and Braille browsers. Controlled authoring and workflow ensure that only approved content is released to clients.
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AuthorIT Software Corporation Launches Website Manager
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Sept. 19 /-- AuthorIT Software Corporation announces the release of AuthorIT Website Manager. Traditional website development relies on a Webmaster collating information from content contributors, designers, developers, and translators, then assembling it all together into static, or near static pages. The newly released AuthorIT Website Manager stores content separately from the design and function, then assembles and delivers the requested page dynamically, tailored for the individual visitor. AuthorIT Website Manager enables organizations to deliver websites that adjust to the visitor based on browser, language, and device.
"Website Manager and AuthorIT are a great combination for bridging Webmasters and content creators. Content published to the system by users is guaranteed to comply with website standards, removing the bottleneck of manual layout and formatting. Work gets published faster," said Ron Stone of The Pangea Partnership (http://www.pangeapartnership.org/). "AuthorIT Website Manager is an extension of our philosophy to reuse and repurpose content throughout the organization in the most efficient way possible," said Paul Trotter, CEO AuthorIT Software Corporation.
Reuse of content, and separation of content from format and function with the AuthorIT Website Manager, enables organizations to take advantage of the powerful translation and localization features in the AuthorIT Component Content Management solution. Traditional websites are difficult and expensive to localize because the content is combined together with format, layout, and function in individual files. To translate the website, hundreds or thousands of individual files must be duplicated and translated for each language. Any changes to these files -- be it content, format, layout, or function -- require that file to be retranslated across each language. AuthorIT Website Manager, using a single source solution, separates the content from format, layout, and function, so translation occurs without duplication. Separated content dramatically reduces the cost of localizing a website because only new or updated content requires translation.
Cedric Vezinet, Director of Engineering at Lingo Systems (http://www.lingosys.com/), a leading localization service provider, comments "AuthorIT is by far the most localization-friendly CMS on the market today, offering the best solution for corporations of all sizes who need authoring in multiple languages. With the release of the new, versatile Website Manager, AuthorIT has raised the bar to another level. Through Website Manager, our clients will be able to manage their websites in real time with the news, updates, and information their clients demand and expect. And with the AuthorIT CMS solution in place, they'll just as easily be able to deliver that content to us for immediate localization. The AWM is another leading-edge tool to help our clients create, manage, and localize their web content easily and efficiently. It makes their websites more relevant, and our relationship more integrated. We couldn't be happier."
In today's environment, organizations need to cater for the variety of devices that visitors use to access their websites. The vast majority of websites provide a single experience designed for viewing on a desktop web browser and are unable to display information on other devices correctly. Organizations that want to cater for visitors using devices such as palm pilots, PDAs, Pocket PCs, Blackberrys, or even braille browsers, often have to design and maintain several websites. The AuthorIT Website Manager can be configured with a variety of designs that automatically adjusts the website based on the device being used, delivering a tailored experience to every visitor. The AuthorIT Website Manager caters for the range of devices available today and is designed to deal with future devices.
Implementing accessibility and providing support for braille browsers in websites is desirable, and in many cases, a legal requirement. This often results in design compromises. AuthorIT Website Manager has the ability to deliver websites tailored to each visitor without sacrificing the design. Every type of device visiting the site receives the best experience for that device. Section 508 compliance and other similar accessibility standards are maintained when using AuthorIT Website Manager.
Whenever there are manual steps in a process it introduces the possibility of human errors. The workflow process of AuthorIT Website Manager is designed to reduce the number of manual steps in creating and maintaining a website. Controlled authoring and workflow ensures that only approved content is released to clients. "Ensuring content has been properly reviewed prior to release is a major concern for management." said AuthorIT Software Corporation CEO Paul Trotter. "The new AuthorIT Website Manager not only makes it possible. It makes it easy." There is a further safeguard with a rollback facility that can restore the website to a previous version. Review of the website and material is restricted to those with the right privileges, increasing security.
The AuthorIT technology suite provides a collaborative environment where any number of users, across global locations, can simultaneously control the authoring, review, modification, distribution, security, and publishing of any content within the organization. The addition of AuthorIT Website Manager is an innovation that enhances AuthorIT's well established content management solution.
About AuthorIT Software Corporation
AuthorIT Software Corporation, founded in 1996, is based in Auckland, New Zealand. AuthorIT is a cost-effective, integrated, single-source documentation solution, incorporating authoring, content management, security and standards control, and publishing to print, online Help, and the Web. It also includes modules for project management, localization, and offline authoring. AuthorIT has customers in over 50 countries across 5 continents.
CONTACT: Kim Parry, kparry@author-it.com, or Michael Havill, mhavill@author-it.com, both for AuthorIT, +64-9-915-5070
