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| Ektron Announces the Availability of CMS400.NET Version 7 Ektron has unveiled the latest version of CMS400.NET, which enables organizations to rapidly create, deploy and manage interactive web, intranet and extranet sites using its powerful out-of-the-box functionality. CMS400.NET V7.0 enables customers to do what is most important to them – building highly interactive sites that foster a strong online community, and include features such as advanced navigation and built-in taxonomy to get information into the hands of site visitors as quickly as possible. CMS400.NET V7.0 is the first content management system to introduce geo-encoded mapping and wiki collaboration features which provide navigational taxonomy structure to articles and inter-wiki links. CMS400.NET version 7.0 features several enhancements to the application's already robust web content management and technology infrastructure. Customers will be able to: 1. Build their online communities: - Sites designed for interactive sharing: Ektron's CMS400.NET Wiki enables organizations to create websites specifically designed for communication, collaboration and sharing information. By adding Ektron's Wiki capabilities to public websites, site visitors will be encouraged to participate in online communities and promote openness in reading and authoring content. Explicit structure functionality and enable efficient management of wiki content using Ektron's Directory Taxonomy, which provides detailed category tagging, search, breadcrumb and navigation for all wiki articles. - Better Forums: CMS400.NET v7.0 offers many new features to the forums control, including: paging, IP address restriction, automatic restricted word replacement, predefined signature lines, upload and attachment capabilities, RSS subscriptions, history of a member's posts, user rankings and a terms and conditions disclaimers. - Enhanced Blogs: Ektron's built-in blogging technology is enhanced to support blog creation and moderation by registered site members. It also now includes a standard blog API to interface with and get updates from Microsoft Office 2007 and integrate with other desktop blogging tools. - Advanced navigation tools: CMS400.NET's new search language API enables the generation of dynamic summaries based on content and assets. Index search technology searches content for site visitors seeking information, ensuring a richer user experience, including: o Better performance delivering more accurate search results quickly; o Result ranking displays only the most relevant content listing; o Customized search queries for drilling into relevant areas of web sites. 2. Provide site visitors with the information they need: - Ability to tag and classify content: Ektron's hierarchal taxonomy classifies and structures web pages and managed documents into logical groupings based on their content. Ektron's taxonomy provides the option of tagging one piece of content with many different category associations. It can also be used to limit the scope of a search to reduce the amount of irrelevant content returned, providing a very powerful site navigation tool. - GeoMapping: CMS400.NET v7.0 brings GPS mapping technology to web content management. Ektron's GeoMapping functionality enables content to be tagged with longitude and latitude coordinates to leverage Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Earth. 3. Design professional-looking, easy-to-navigate sites: - Easy to build, better-looking design: CMS400.NET's Ektron Markup Language (EkML) makes it easy for web developers and site administrators to manage the formatting and presentation of dynamic content elements using simple and familiar HTML markup. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |