Websites, Portals, Intranets, and Extranets

"Author-it lets you separate the tasks that require the special skills of web developers from the day-to-day creation, maintenance, and publishing of content."

Author-it is the ideal solution for creating, maintaining, managing and publishing content for websites, portals, intranets, and extranets. Its capabilities allow you to build anything from simple static page websites to complex, dynamic, database driven, e-commerce enabled websites (this site is an example).

Author-it also allows you to share and reuse any other content that resides in the single-source database, and deliver that same content to print, help, and web outputs - without duplication. Updating the content in one place is reflected in all outputs.

Creating and updating web sites can be slow, difficult and expensive. This is because changes to the site have to be coded into HTML by skilled web developers (even though they are rarely originators of the content) creating a bottle-neck and often introducing errors.

Basically, an expensive resource is being used for merely converting content into a different format.

Author-it lets you separate the functions that require the special skills of web developers from the day-to-day creation, maintenance and publishing of content. Author-it provides a simple but powerful word processor-like environment for content creation and maintenance that does not require any HTML or web development skills, whilst the people with HTML or web development skills can control standards and security that ensure Author-it always produces 100% valid HTML. This eliminates the need to route new or changed content through the web developers and dramatically reduces the time and cost to update web sites.

Furthermore, the publishing and delivery of changed content to the website can be fully automated through the use of command line scripting. You can trigger this by a single mouse click, or schedule it to run as a batch process at regular intervals.

The Author-it solution provides the following benefits:

• Reduced update times. Content owners and authors contribute directly at a single source. Authors spend less time creating and recreating the same content, reviewers spend less time reviewing, and translators spend less time localizing.
• Better use of resources. The source is automatically published to 100% valid HTML, eliminating the need for web developers have to convert content and allowing them to focus on other tasks more suitable to their skills. Content authors can contribute directly to the source, without fear of creating invalid HTML.
• Reduced costs for creating, maintaining, managing and publishing content. Automate the publishing and delivery of content to your website, reduce the involvement of skilled expensive web development resources, and reduce translation and localization costs.
• Improved quality and usability of content. Standards are enforced, resulting in consistent structure and formatting, and increased readability and usability. Content is accurate, consistent, and 100% valid HTML wherever it appears, reducing or eliminating inaccurate or missing content.
• Improved workplace satisfaction. Content authors can focus on creating effective content, knowing that it can be published quickly. Web developers become more productive, only dealing with tasks that require their particular skills. The organization benefits because it can provide integrated, consistent and accurate content across all deliverables.
• Increased customer satisfaction. Consistent, accurate content is delivered quickly. Content is lean valid HTML, reducing load times and increasing browser compatibility.

All from One Source. Using One Solution.

This is simply a snapshot of Author-it's wide ranging feature set, learn more.