Immediacy CMS
The Immediacy CMS is the ideal environment to start the content
creation process. Its ‘Word like’ editing interface makes it
familiar and intuitive to use and creating content in a web based
tool means that workflow and auditing capabilities are
automatically available.
Structured and accessible content can then be copied back into a
Word format and even be re-purposed automatically into a PDF
document if required. This is made possible through the separation
of content from presentation, the underlying core capability of
most established and effective content management systems. This is
also the basis for content syndication, typically RSS, which is
also often described as the essential element of ‘Web 2.0’. This
is the simple means for an item of content created in one
website to be ‘pushed’ or ‘pulled’ into another website and thereby
adopting the style of whatever webpage it is viewed in.
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
Immediacy's CMS features a true 'in-context'
WYSIWYG
editor. Changing
content in Immediacy is like typing directly into your web pages.
The user sees exactly how the page will look as they are
working.
more
information on WYSIWYG editing
Editor Toolbar
Although it is fully browser based, the Immediacy
CMS closely resembles a typical Microsoft Office® application.
This ensures maximum ease of use and an extremely rich editing
environment.
more
information on toolbar
Adding new content
Creating new content and adding pages is quick and intuitive in
Immediacy CMS.
more
information on adding new content
Drag and drop
Drag and drop Word® and Excel®
documents directly into the Immediacy CMS, have them converted to
XML compliant content and reformatted dynamically to the
established page style.
Page links
Users can add page links to content within the CMS at any
point by using the link editor.
more information on
page links
Image manipulation
Immediacy CMS features powerful image manipulation tools
including; automatic low-res and thumbnail creation, free transform
and fixed constraint image resize, cropping, brightness &
contrast and sharpen. Multiple image variations are displayed in
the properties dialogue box enabling editors to find the original
image source or choose pre-set sizes as part of visual identity
standard.
Image library
Immediacy CMS has an image library for managing images
within a web site. You can browse image categories by
thumbnail or search for them by file name, meta data, title or
description. Usage reporting from the Manager enables you to
see how and where images are being used and streamlines the process
of removing or replacing images.
more information
on image library
Menu navigation
Navigation menus are dynamically built
according to the pages created within the Immediacy editor. Pages
can also be hidden from the menu to ensure usability standards are
maintained.
more nformation on dynamic menu creation
Page preview
In addition to editing in a true
WYSIWYG
format, a preview
option is provided that fully processes the page to give an exact
representation of the page in its published state, in a new browser
window.
Brand control and style guides
Immediacy understands the importance of branding
and visual identity and has designed the CMS with powerful
tools to enable brand managers and marketers to take control, and
because our CMS separates content from presentation, branding or
campaign changes can be made across a site in record time.
Immediacy's CMS can also be deployed in any number of ways to suit
the organisations structure or approach, for instance, you could
choose to enforce rigid brand adherence through
to allowing individuals total design freedom.
more information on content design
Document creation and management
Should users wish to create documents in a traditional Office
tool, such as Word, then Immediacy provides some integration that
enables documents to be saved straight from Word into the Immediacy
Web Asset Manager (WAM). Alternatively, a Word document can be
added into the system via Windows Explorer or the
Immediacy WAM interface.
Once within the Web Asset Manager, Basic Content Services such
as check in/out, version control, collaborative commenting and
workflow can be applied for the duration of the document creation
process.
Once approved, documents can be brought together with web
content in Immediacy driven websites in 3 key ways.
- Link to an individual document in the WAM via the CMS link
creation tool
- A plug-in to display the documents in a specified folder or
category
- A plug-in that enables folders and their contents to be browsed
and accessed via an Immediacy web page.