Smart Publisher is compact and easy to use application, designed to have features you can find with rare enterprise CMS-es - and it was designed by publisher/programmer - especially for publishers.

You have --

• Publishing
  • Unlimited Categories and Subcategories
    • Path / Directory service to reflect most complex divisioning
  • Title, Rich Text Annotation, Small Image, Main Image, Rich Text Main text/body
  • True multilingual publishing based on Unicode
  • Support for Right to Left scriptures
  • Huge database support (Up to 250.000 publications)
  • Publication main body can be divided on pages  
  • Custom Page Headers and Leading Infos for categories and sub categories
  • Publications can have internal order inside Sub Category - position inside listings
  • Publication can be indexed with Key Words, which then can be used for fast search and grouping purposes
  • Publication can be indexed with Categories Key Words, which then can be used for fast search and grouping purposes
  • Publication can be indexed with Informational Path / Directory Index, which then can be used for fast search and grouping purposes
  • Publications can have internal links with other Publications
  • Keywords and Internal links are forming internal associations
  • Actual publication of Publications can be managed pointing Active/Nonnative switch (also globally)
  • Featured Publications (can be shown as random) at the top of Page or other part of page
  • Publications - views count, and  - readers rating
  • Publications can be commented by users (on/off feature by Publication or global, Approval on/off) - simple commenting or commenting using Sintz Forums
  • Files and Images can be attached to the Publication (+ download counter, + pop up thumbnail view)
  • Images albums (pop up slide shows view, email to friend)
  • Files folders (pop up slide shows view, email to friend, download counter)
  • Media albums (download counter)
  • Publications, images slide shows
  • Rich text Author's description
  • Header and Footer are editable documents and can be operatively changed...
  • Modular design - various menus, indexes, independent informational blocks - Publication body, annotation pointed by ID number can be positioned in various places of pages...
  • Author feature can be On/Off (Show Author)
  • Publications Rating is On/Off feature globally or per Publication
  • Extended media (audio and video) library support
  • Email to friend for publications, images, files
  • Printer friendly for Publications
  • Publications lists common and thumb nailed view
  • Managed width of web pages
  • Ecommerce enabled (Pay Pal)

• EDITING
  • Special attention on fast, easy and ergonomic edition and Publishing based on browser
    • "On page" Publication call for editing (logged user can see special editing icon linked with any Title. Clicking this icon Publication editing window is opening.)
  • Groups of editors - Administrators, Editors and Authors - with different access power
  • WYSIWYG edition for Annotation and Publication Body
  • Publication can be PAGED -- useful for a large Publications -- spread several pages
  • Publication can be moved to other Category/Sub Category (Sub Category can be moved to other Category)
  • Fast select/picking for Key Words and Key Words management
  • Fast select/picking for internal links
  • Fast select for images for Copy/Past into Rich Text Editing boxes
  • Images/Files upload to database and Images/Files Collections / Albums
  • Images/Files upload to disk Images/Files Collections / Albums

• TECH
  • Smart Publisher is designed for Win2000 server, IIS5, ASP3 and VB
  • Access Database is used (also SQL Server)
  • Fast tables for fast response
  • All pages under control of one CSS - Style file
  • All ASP pages are specially designed to be edited with MS Front Page
  • Language packs - support of unlimited languages
  • General Unicode encoding and Unicode conversion for cookies, etc 
  • Modular design - you can use various modules independently to form yours existing or new web site and pages (Modules - Last 10 Titles, Last 10 Comments, Viewing statistics, Comments statistics, etc.)
  • Publications, Images and Files databases are different and independent databases - for easy maintenance and security
  • You can integrate Smart Publisher with other popular applications - among them with portals without integrating databases
  • Stability Manager - Recreates vital parts of databases and manages zero start (starting a new empty Publications database)
  • Internal Caching of the most viewed pages gives 5-10 times improvement of response time (WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1.1 or Microsoft ServerXMLHTTP - Microsoft.XMLHTTP, Msxml2.XMLHTTP is to be installed on server) 

• NAVIGATION AND USER SETTINGS
  • Special attention was paid to ease and recursive navigation
  • Lists - Featured, Authors, Key Words, Popular, Popularly rated, Comments, Images/Albums
  • From Main Index - navigation to Category or Sub Category Listings
  • From Listing - navigation to Publications
  • From Publication - navigation to Associated Publications - containing the same Keywords; to internally linked Publications; to Author's data and Author's other Publications; navigation to Category
  • Listings and Publications Detailed views are paged ("previous", "next", etc.. No "go back" is needed)  
  • Linear and Compact (Thumbnail) listings
  • Local bookmaking
  • Users can change look of many items
    • Home Page/Main List:
      • Choosing of Sub Categories, count of Annotations and Titles
      • Show/Hide details for any Sub Category or All
    • Other Listings
      • Count of records per page
      • Jump to other Category or Sub Category

Some Rivals:

• Octane 8 ($20,000)
• ConductIT Content Management ($7,500 )
• Ektron CMS 300 ($6,600)
• Web500 CMS ($5,725)
• IBEEM CMS Standard Edition ($4,498)
• OnlineSiteCreator ($4,475)

22.1.2004