Dispatch isn't just about data-binding and
saving time, it's also about enhancing your site,
adding new features unachievable by
hand-coding, and keeping your online product fresh. Giving an
entire site a facelift, saving you time, and providing the technology to
explore innovative new layouts, are just a few of the many features
Dispatch offers.
- HTML conversion from multiple formats, including Quark Xpress tags
and Rich Text Format (RTF).
- Image conversion, optimization, placement, captions and cataloging.
- Customizable templates allowing total design freedom to use
HTML, Java, JavaScript, Active X, and future technologies.
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- A subset of extended HTML tags for use in templates: This provides
build-time database arguments such as byline, headline, issue,
volume/date, search keys, and more.
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- Paging navigation system (page forward, page back).
- Threaded column navigation (last issue, next issue, current issue).
- Optional page splitting, which can cut articles into multiple
pages at your specification (e.g. kilobytes or word count).
- Archive management for column, author and artist archive pages.
- Full-text indexing and searching, including
meta-keyword and meta-description
management.
- Continuously updated software that regularly adds
new features, bypassing the need to download software for each enhancement.
- Useful, accurate, statistical information by author, section,
content type, keywords and more—something no other
server-log software can do.
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- Auto-email statical reports to authors,
editors, artists, sales representatives, and others to
increase communication regarding your
online publication's strengths and weaknesses.
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- Flexible, interactive interface allowing you to customize your
software and decide which components you want to use.
- Web-based interface: Macintosh, Windows, Unix fully supported.
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- Auto-publish option requiring no interaction: Just email your
files to the Dispatch server, and your site will be online in no
time!
- Support for issue-based sites (print publications), dynamic sites (e.g.,
C|Net), and hybrids.
- Online scheduling for timed releases and updates: Do all of
your work in one day, but have Dispatch release the information throughout
the week with the online scheduler.
- Online editing allows you to browse your site—after it's
published—and edit pages within your browser without having
to know HTML.
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- Complete online help: documentation and tutorials are always
one click away.
- Dispatch stores all content in a rich database that can easily
export your content into other formats you may need for online
joint ventures.
- CD-ROM ready for easy transport and archiving.
- Available as a hosted service or stand-alone server
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