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collectibles and art sectors and for anyone who requires
attractive visual display of sale items. No technical skills required. Fast, easy and effective web site design and construction.
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Until
recently, websites were maintained mostly by means of local office HTML
editors such as FrontPage and Dreamweaver from which modified web page
files were uploaded to the hosting server. More and more sites are now
based on databases housed remotely on the hosting server. Site
modification and update are carried out via an interface accessed using a
web browser. The Apache server software allows web sites housed on Linux
servers to display URLs (web addresses) that look like static web site
file names, a process know as URL rewrite. These are easier for
search engines to access and more readily grasped by users. The CMS can be
accessed from any PC that has a connection to the internet, independent of
geographical location, making it easy for a group of users or a user on
the move to update a site.
ammonet has developed and hosts a
considerable range of CMS web sites, using both Java and PHP. PHP has the
virtue of simplicity and stability, while Java provides a huge range of
function libraries. Both are open source.
Our simplest systems:
- allow pages to be added, deleted and modified
- images and text can be boxed or not, font colours and page element
backgrounds are easily specified
- popup image / thumbnail combinations are generated automatically.
- image galleries with dozens of popup pictures can be generated at the
click of a button. Image management can be carried out using our free ImageServ
but this is not mandatory.
- enquiry forms that transmit email to the site owner are easily
incorporated.
- email addresses are automatically obfuscated as they are typed into the
text boxes so that they cannot be harvested from the internet by spammers.
- where the site is multilingual, a page layout need be generated once
only, making it easy to enter the translated text into a fully-formatted
page.
Unlike
most CMS websites, ammonet
sites and their banner images are proportional - they
change shape to fill the browser window, making efficient
use of space and reducing vertical scrolling. To test
this, open the sites below and grasp your browser window
boundary with the mouse cursor to expand and contract the
window.
Shore
excursions and private tours in Tuscany. This site features a
horizontal navigation bar and a clickable photo gallery editable
via the CMS interface. Unlike most of our CMS sites, this one is
fixed width.
Our
more complex systems provide:
- more sophisticated site layout editing.
- customer management databases. Information entered by visitors
making enquiries or purchases is stored for future reference.
- data escrow systems that allow administrators to vet uploaded data
- emails with common content can be send to some or all customers.
All emails sent out are logged and saved.
- shopping carts with inventory management
This
site allow owners of missing or stolen are maps to register and
list the missing map. Entries are escrowed and checked by site
admin before being made public. Map records are browsable and
searchable.
Pages
can be added to both top level and drop-down picklists of the
navigation. Incorporates a unique index of the Society's annual
journal. New index content is added as each new journal issue is
published.
This
Tuscany tourist accommodation web site that incorporates a sophisticated price comparison /
alternative offer methodology. It has a complete customer management
zone, in addition to the CMS.
L'Inganno
of Greve in Chianti - a studio specialising in trompe l'oeil painted
furniture and interior decorating. Mouse-over image change above the
navigation bar, complete customer management
zone, news letter emailer, in addition to the CMS.
Properties
are entered once and displayed on the properties list as well as the
details page. Full multilingual CMS including new page addition,
full image management, metatag editor for all property pages, URL
rewrite, search engine friendly links generated by the CMS.
This
web site has a password protected members' area where, among other
functions, the members of the Society can access and update their
profiles. These data are synchronised periodically with a
non-server, local members database.
This
web site has a complete property management system, including image
management, and is in three languages. File name generation is
semi-automatic and optimised for search engines.
