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Templating and Snap-in Navigation
Create and manage a virtual site hierarchy inside the management application.
Create skin template pages that the page publishing framework snaps onto
virtual nodes to display the site to users, with automatic instantiation
of navigational aids such as menus, category lists and breadcrumb trails.
| No | Place .NET
controls for
navigation into
skin template pages |
Publish Standard Web Pages
Create and manage a virtual site hierarchy inside the management application.
Assign standard Web pages (e.g. about.html) and content (e.g. report.pdf) to
virtual nodes in the structure using regular expressions (e.g. trading_*.html)
to enable application of PMS functionalities to standard pages.
| Yes | Yes |
Content Syndication and Display
Specify syndication to extend and augment your virtual site hierarchy. Display syndicated
articles within your publication skin using dynamic rendering methods that can
adjust for requirements such as advertisement insertion.
| No | Place .NET
controls into
skin templates
to display articles |
Publication Slot Boxes
Associate arbitrary HTML with nodes in your virtual site hierarchy, for display within
specific "slot boxes" within your publication skin. WYSIWYG style management of HTML
and associated images. Overriding of slot boxes by node.
| Can insert special
.NET controls into
ASPX pages | Place .NET
controls into
skin templates |
Publication Link Lists
Create and associate lists of links with nodes in your virtual site hierarchy, for display
within your publication skin (link lists can be used for menus, or for suggesting a weekly pick of
articles to users, for example). Easily add links to internal content to your lists using a node browser.
Overriding by node.
| Can insert special
.NET controls into
ASPX pages | Place .NET
controls into
skin templates |
Publication Feature Lists
Create and associate dynamically calculated lists of articles with nodes in your
virtual site hierarchy, where article selection is based upon rules such as hierarchy scope,
article type and time factors. Overriding by node.
| No | Place .NET
controls into
skin templates |
Multi-level Membership and Access Control
Build membership databases, with users in membership groups. Define access to any node in the
virtual site hierarchy by membership group. Override access control by node. Specifications
override other forms of access control, such as premium content, for easy implementation of
business models that drive new subscriptions.
| Yes | Yes |
Premium Content Systems
Use the management application to assign premium content tariffs to nodes in
your publication - such as "charge 1.5 GBP/USD/EUR for access to each article in this section". Easy integration
with the main payment processing services. | Yes | Yes |
Content-centric Traffic Analysis
Analyse traffic on your Web publication from the perspective of the logical content
structure rather than URL and page requests, as per traditional Web log analysis systems.
For example, see how traffic is distributed across different sections and sub-sections,
and see how that has changed over time.
| Partial Support | Yes |
PPC and Referral Based Impression ROI Tracking
Track all sources of referral to your publication, including from search engines by
keyword. See what are the average number of pages viewed by users from different sources
over any period of time. Compare to PPC costs to calculate search engine marketing ROI.
| Yes | Yes |
Lightweight E-Commerce Functionality
Managing a portfolio of products and shipping options. Generate special links for insertion into
your publication skin, that enable users to purchase those products. Easy integration
with the main payment processing services. | Yes | Yes |
Advertisement Serving and Management
Associate any of the main types of online advertising (top banner, sky, popup etc) with nodes in
your virtual site hierarchy according to section, article type and other criteria. Set rotations
based upon required impression delivery requirements. Serve advertising media where third party
services not used by clients. |
Can insert special
.NET controls into
ASPX pages | Yes |
Auto-content Suggestion
When the user is viewing an article, can suggest a list of related articles.
For example, when the user is viewing news about subject X, the system can detect and
automatically suggest book reviews about subject X created within a specified period.
| No | Yes |
Community User Forums
Provide fully featured user forums for the purpose of building community.
| Can insert special
.NET controls into
ASPX pages | Place .NET
controls into
skin templates |
Micro-forums per Article
Configure which types of articles should have micro-forums associated with
them using the management application. Publication users can then use your content as the
starting point for threaded discussions.
| No | Place .NET
controls into
skin templates |
Polls, Competitions and Data Collection
Use wizards to quickly define new polls, competitions and data collection facilities.
Analyse data, select winners and export information in CSV format.
| No | Place .NET
controls into
skin templates |
Intelligent Site Search
Add full-text search to the publication, where results are intelligently ranked using consideration of content meta
data (where a keyword match in the article title is ranked more highly than a match in a teaser text,
and a match in a teaser text is ranked more highly than a match in a body text, for example).
| No | Add search
box to skin
template |
XML-based Commercial Databases
Use the management application to create and manage XQuery and XPath expression libraries that
can be applied by your skin to quickly turn selected portions of the publication's content into commercial
databases, such as classified advertising facilities, service provider directories and sophisticated
e-commerce centers.
| No | Create skin
search pages
referencing the
XQuery and XPath
libraries |
