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Web site content management for article and news publishing online |
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| Features | Absolute News Manager XE V3.2 | Absolute News Manager .NET V5.1 |
| Technology | Classic ASP | ASP.NET 2.0 |
| Database Support | MS Access, SQL Server |
SQL Server / MSDE |
| Ergonomic Control Panel: User-friendly, web-based interface to author and administer the System from anywhere in the world. All you need is a web browser and an Internet connection! |
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| Enhanced Web Based Editor : Absolute News Manager .NET comes with a Feature packed Web-based HTML editor, so publishers will be able to provide rich content without having to know HTML or FTP. |
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| Fully Template driven : Create your own templates using your favorite HTML editor and use some special (and very easy) text tags to define the layout of your articles to exactly match the look and feel of your site. There is no limit on the number of Templates you can create. |
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| Multimedia Support : You can attach images, files, documents, audio and video to fully enhance your articles with state-of-the-art multimedia features. |
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| Supports ASP.NET Templates : Use the latest technology to present your articles online. Add dynamic includes and ASP code to your articles by using ASP templates. |
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| 3 User levels supported: No limits on the number of publishers, editors and administrators you can have. In order to fully administer and publish your vision, register as many publishers and administrators as your server can support! |
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| Content Schedule : Articles can be scheduled to appear and disappear at a future date by scheduling Start and Ending Dates. |
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| Zone based : Zones are the places on your site where you want your headlines to appear, they behave as categories to let you classify your content. The Absolute News Manager supports 2 level zones: zones and subzones. |
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| Option to inherit settings from Parent Zones
: Set a main zone and any number of subzones. Any change made to the main zone will be reflected to all its subzones. |
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| Support for publisher’s photo and
signature: Give a personal touch to your content by including your publishers photos and small bio. |
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| Support for featured articles : Set which articles should be set as featured and appear first in your zones. |
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| Support for multi-page articles : Your content can be broken into any number of pages. |
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| Support for keywords and description : Add additional meta-data to describe your content. |
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| Improved Article Preview : Easily preview how your content will be displayed using your assigned zone templates. |
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| Editor review : Option to have system editors review all articles before publishing. |
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| Support for automatic notifications : Let your editors know when an article has been posted or modified. |
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| Archives : Automatic archiving of articles after expiration date. |
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| Article Purging (New
V5) If you prefer, you can have the system regularly purge your articles from the database. |
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| Built-in Cache: Boost your system performance by using the built-in cache system to deliver your articles and content. |
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| Syndication protection : Protect your content and bandwidth by selecting the URLs that have permission to display your headlines. |
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| Cross-referenced/related articles (New
V5) Define articles related to other articles. Keep your users lingering your site. |
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| Plug-In Support: Absolute News Manager can be easily enhanced through the addition of Plug-Ins you may wish to add as they are developed. |
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| Enhanced Search Engine : Powerful keyword based search engine system for easily browsing your articles and content. You can also deploy a public search interface for your articles and news with just three lines of HTML code and let your site visitors browse your content. |
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| Display your headlines anywhere with just
one line of code (New V5) By pasting a single line of code, Absolute News Manager will display and syndicate your headlines to any page you want. |
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| Printable Version : Allow users to easily get a printable version of your articles or have the system send them by e-mail. |
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| RSS News feed syndication : Easily syndicate your headlines to sites which support RSS XML News feeds. You can also syndicate independent feeds per zone. |
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| Zone Code Generator : Easily generate different layouts for your zones. |
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| CSS Support : Define independent styles for each element on your zones (headline , date, source, etc) |
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| Advanced Zone Layout and Formatting : Define how each of your headlines should look on your zones, add any HTML elements that you need. |
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| Enhanced Security (New
V5) Easily set what content your publishers and editors can have access to by just enabling an option. |
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| Spell Checker The built-in HTML Editor comes with support for IE Spell thus now you can spell check your HTML articles before publishing them. |
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| Flash , Video and Audio Embedding Support (New
V5) Embed Flash ,Video and Audio objects directly into your articles. |
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| Absolute Banner Manager .NET Support (New
V5) Now you can insert ads from Absolute Banner Manager directly into your articles. |
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| Zone Thumbnails (New
V5) Use default thumbnails on your zones to be used when no thumbnails are provided for your articles |
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| Enhanced CSS Support (New
V5) Use CSS Styles from your styles sheet directly into the edition of your articles. The HTML editor provides everything you need to easily access your current styles |
Absolute News Manager comes packed with everything you need to publish and administer your content and articles online. It is the perfect solution for your content management and news publishing needs.
This is not a hosted solution, Absolute News Manager runs under your own site and domain, It is also entirely web based, you don't need to install any 3rd party software on your PC to work with the system and administer your web content online.
Absolute News Manager .NET has been ported to support Microsoft's latest and most powerful web technology ASP.NET 2.0. When combined with SQL Server 2005 (or its Express Edition), will deliver the best scalability and reliability ever!. We were extremely pleased with the results of using the application under the new .NET framework. It just runs faster and better than ever!