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News Release from: Engineering Adventures | Subject: Straight2web
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 June 2004
New type of website content management
software
Engineering Adventure's latest website content management software has been receiving excellent reviews in the computer press
Engineering Adventure's latest website content management software has been receiving excellent reviews in the computer press and has the ability to significantly improve the performance of most company's websites, while dramatically reducing their cost The approach to creating websites is quite new and could spell the end of the traditional WYSIWYG editor
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"There's no easier way to build a website" said PCPlus Spring 2004, and "Straight2web isn't just for beginners".
"I've been writing about digital publishing internationally for over 15 years, reviewed a great deal of software, and so can vouch that Straight2web is a significant development"- Colin Hayes, Author of Paperless Publishing by McGraw-Hill.
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"Straight2web is flexible enough to manage part or all of your site and it's easy for all staff to use" - PC Advisor May 2004.
Even experienced web designers have claimed that Straight2web has reduced their website development time by 90%.
The original aim of Straight2web was to provide the website owner with a fast and effective way of maintaining their own website content, while keeping the website design completely separate.
In the past the whole website would have been designed in a WYSIWYG editor such as Dreamweaver, however, recent changes to the accessibility legislation and the direction in which general website design standard have been moving, has resulted in a situation where creating sites in a WYSIWYG editor has become overly slow and cumbersome and not really suitable for the content provider or the website designer to work with effectively.
Separating the website content from the page design means that a company's own administrative or managerial staff can enter and update the content whenever they chose.
There is virtually no limit to the number of pages they can include and absolutely no cost to change them, apart from their own time.
Entering the information is no more difficult that writing a letter and is very similar to adding information into a database entry form.
New designs can be applied to the website at any time and the complete look and operation of the site can be changed at the touch of a button, while still keeping the same content.
Conforming to the latest website design standards means that most web pages should contain very little html but instead consist of a collection of different text regions whose design is controlled by global stylesheets.
This means that the traditional WYSIWYG editors are only useful for a very small percentage of the website design process and far more time is spent in programs such as Straight2web's integral stylesheet editor.
Another major factor is that all websites must soon, by law, be designed in such a way that makes them suitable for people with disabilities to use.
This means including features such as text based menus with lots of hidden title and access key commands that allow screen reading software to work effectively and users to navigate with the keyboard or mouse.
The way Straight2web is designed means that all of these hidden codes can be added automatically, thus saving the website designer many hours of painstaking and expensive work.
Straight2web is ideally suited to providing small to medium sized company websites although it is also an effective way of providing updateable sections to larger sites, as with the recent upgrade to the www.bfpa.co.uk website.
A free trial is available at www.straight2web.co.uk for those who want to find out more.
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