Mar, 2002 : CrownPeak Unveils Template Management System
📅 - CrownPeak Technology (crownpeak.com), a content managementprovider, yesterday introduced a high-level template management system thatallows users to change the look of an entire Web site via a browserinterface.
The latest addition to the Advantage CMS content management tool, thistemplate creation and management interface enables business users to modifytemplates, preview the resulting changes, schedule those templates live, andredesign the site on the fly.
Because output templates are managed as assets in the system, multiple newlook-and-feel options can be created, previewed, run through workflow,offered for collaboration and scheduled live. More basic changes to anexisting template - like adding a new text field or swapping out graphics -can be performed through a drag-and-drop interface. More complex actions,like adjusting navigation or setting a new layout, can be performed via a"helper" interface, or directly with the template's HTML code.
"Our new offering is, bar none, the most powerful tool available forchanging the look and feel of a site without the need for technical staff,"said Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak Technology. "The ROI is plain - if yourollout a new site once a year, the content management system is paid for,"Howard said. "If you change your site three times a year because of productcycles, it'll pay for itself three times over, taking speed of return todizzying proportions. On that basis, this stands alone in the market."
"We are releasing clients from being hostage to the template," he said. "Inother systems, templates are coded in esoteric languages and have inherentrelationships with the database. In those systems, you need an engineer tomake changes to the template, and then make changes to the database in orderto execute even small adjustments to a site's navigation structure andlook-and-feel."
By managing template changes through workflow, CrownPeak clients typicallyperform a site redesign while others in the client organization continue touse the system to manage and update the site. The redesign can be previewed,approved, and scheduled live.
Advantage CMS also features a developer environment to enable moresophisticated and complex interactions. Based on Microsoft's Active ServerPages, this environment gives developers access to a complete programminglanguage. To enable custom logic on an input form, or to establish aconnection with another application, for example, a developer could add thiscode into the template.
Advantage CMS has is interoperable with other systems and applications.Connection options available to developers include SOAP, XML, FTP, WebServices, SMTP and ODBC.
The company simultaneously announced a browser-based development environmentyesterday, targeted at professional Web developers.
The latest addition to the Advantage CMS content management tool, thistemplate creation and management interface enables business users to modifytemplates, preview the resulting changes, schedule those templates live, andredesign the site on the fly.
Because output templates are managed as assets in the system, multiple newlook-and-feel options can be created, previewed, run through workflow,offered for collaboration and scheduled live. More basic changes to anexisting template - like adding a new text field or swapping out graphics -can be performed through a drag-and-drop interface. More complex actions,like adjusting navigation or setting a new layout, can be performed via a"helper" interface, or directly with the template's HTML code.
"Our new offering is, bar none, the most powerful tool available forchanging the look and feel of a site without the need for technical staff,"said Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak Technology. "The ROI is plain - if yourollout a new site once a year, the content management system is paid for,"Howard said. "If you change your site three times a year because of productcycles, it'll pay for itself three times over, taking speed of return todizzying proportions. On that basis, this stands alone in the market."
"We are releasing clients from being hostage to the template," he said. "Inother systems, templates are coded in esoteric languages and have inherentrelationships with the database. In those systems, you need an engineer tomake changes to the template, and then make changes to the database in orderto execute even small adjustments to a site's navigation structure andlook-and-feel."
By managing template changes through workflow, CrownPeak clients typicallyperform a site redesign while others in the client organization continue touse the system to manage and update the site. The redesign can be previewed,approved, and scheduled live.
Advantage CMS also features a developer environment to enable moresophisticated and complex interactions. Based on Microsoft's Active ServerPages, this environment gives developers access to a complete programminglanguage. To enable custom logic on an input form, or to establish aconnection with another application, for example, a developer could add thiscode into the template.
Advantage CMS has is interoperable with other systems and applications.Connection options available to developers include SOAP, XML, FTP, WebServices, SMTP and ODBC.
The company simultaneously announced a browser-based development environmentyesterday, targeted at professional Web developers.
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