Features
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Website Toolkit provides features, flexibility and functionality to help you build better websites
With Website Toolkit you can create and build robust and sophisticated websites using simple and familiar tools. Vast variety of skins and products make it easier to design exactly the site you want, whilst enhanced publishing, workflow features and options help you get your web pages online quickly and simply.
It includes the professional website designs, authoring, data and publishing tools needed to create sophisticated yet beautiful websites.
Some of the key features of the Website Toolkit
are:
Design better looking websites faster:
Website toolkit includes tools and a variety of out of box design layouts and graphics to help you design professional websites faster.
- Website toolkit has a huge variety of layouts to choose from. Each design has a unique look and feel.
- The interface has more than 50 language translations, and tools for managing multilingual content.
- The layouts carefully follow
standards for usability and accessibility. The layouts are compliant with
US Section 508, and the W3C's AA rating for accessibility, in addition to
using best-practice web standards like XHTML and CSS.
No Coding required:
- Using website toolkit does not require any coding knowledge..
- Provides non technical staff ability to update and maintain project websites
- With Web based editors you can edit HTML pages like a word document.
- No html required,
content panels
Extend your websites easily:
- There is a multitude of add-on products for the Website Toolkit to add new features. In addition, it can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.
- Please visit the Download page to see range of add-on products available for the Website Toolkit.
Decentralized posting of information and remote website publishing:
- Any member of the website who has access to internet can add, edit, modify information on the website.
- It has an in built publishing mechanism to allow user to set effective and expiry dates for the information. Plus the content of the website can be in variety of state, i.e. private, public, visible etc., allowing users great flexibility to work on the information and data for later publishing.
- It incorporates a workflow
mechanism to allow users to set roles for website like content editor,
reviewer, publisher, manager etc. This allows easy handling of user rights
and roles in the website, and does not require any special knowledge to implement
the workflow.
Exchange and share information with other websites:
- Website Toolkit uses data format like RSS to allow
websites to inform other sites about their updates and also get
delivered regular changes to other website's content. RSS stands for
Rich Site Summary. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online
publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
- RSS solves a problem for projects who regularly use the web. It allows you to
easily stay informed by retrieving summaries of the latest content from the projects sites you are interested in.
You save time by not needing to visit each site individually.
You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter.
- Websites
can easily pull data and information from other sites and integrate
foreign data into their own content. You can simply sindicate any kind
of content of your website to other sites or vise versa.
- It also allows you to pull Search results
from remote Project sites using RSS. This means using your own search
tool, staying in your own site you can search all other project sites
for data.
Please go to Download page to get Website Toolkit.
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