Content delivery
Standards compliance
The Immediacy content management system is kept up to date with
all the emerging government and worldwide standard committee
guidelines on meta data and accessibility.
more information on standards
compliance
Meta data
The Immediacy CMS supports flexible extensible metadata which
can be defined by system administrators. Meta data forms may be
simply customised to enforce mandatory fields.
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information on metadata
Localisation
The Immediacy CMS supports editing sites in multiple
languages. The default mode of character encoding is unicode which
uses 16 bit (double-byte) character storage. This will support
almost any known language including far eastern character
sets.
Personalisation
Personalisation is easily achieved within the Immediacy
CMS. The most common way is for users to select from a list
of categories that have been defined in the site and then applied
to content items. Because these categories map directly to content,
the site can be personalised by building menus or other page
elements according to a user's requests.
XML based storage
Content is stored as XML and XHTML in the Immediacy repository
database and output generated dynamically for full site publication
as ASPX pages, with output in XML format on demand. XSLT
transformations may also be employed where appropriate to format
content on import or export. Immediacy is committed to supporting
new CSS and XSL standards as they appear.
XML based syndication
Immediacy allows XML output on demand from any page on the site.
This makes it particularly straightforward to syndicate
content, extracting it from an Immediacy driven site and inserting
it dynamically into a page on another site. Final content
formatting will occur in the receiving site via XSLT and CSS.
PDF output on demand
This optional module allows users to dynamically create and
download a PDF version of any page in the site at the click of a
link.
Friendly URLs
Immediacy websites now have friendly
URLs so that search engines can penetrate deeper into content and
get your visitors straight to the content they want. Immediacy is
also compatible with web analytic tools such as WebTrends.
Utilising the long title for the
page title tag, with a short title for the navigation allows you to
create pages optimised for search engines, while making sure the
navigation remains usable. Friendly URLs also allow marketers to
create direct response pages within large sites. Short titles are
automatically generated from the long titles to assist
Editors.
Search
There are two search facilities as standard. One indexes only
the Immediacy site content, but does allow Boolean searching and
searching within categories.
The alternative search links into Microsoft Index Server and
extends the searching not only to site content and documents, but
can be configured to index any or multiple document areas on the
site or server (for Intranets).
As web based systems are driven deeper into organisation's
operations, the need to be able to search across a broader range of
electronic file types grows ever more important. Latest
enhancements enable Immediacy to search all managed content and
across all main file types such as Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®,
Access and PDF documents.
Metadata can be used both to refine searches and to create
dynamic links to related content.