Posted by seotech on January 6, 2010 under Powerpoint Publishing | 
Powerpoint Presentations
The program Microsoft PowerPoint is a great tool for developing creative and attention-grabbing presentations to accompany your business proposal, lecture or shareholder presentation. Rather than bringing along posters with graphs, or photocopying handouts, fiddling around with CD or DVD players during the presentation or trying to centre transparencies on the overhead projector, PowerPoint makes everything easier. They have many features that can make your message clearer and more interesting, including the ability to include text, images, photographs, animations, sound clips, hyperlinks, music, video clips and more. You can have customised backgrounds, colourful graphs and diagrams, references to documents or organisations, automated slide transition and so on.
However we have all seen our fair share of inappropriately used PowerPoint presentations. One very common mistake is to display too much text on each slide. Powerpoint slides should be used to highlight key points or illustrate what you’re trying to explain. Copying and pasting your entire speech into your presentation will not only distract your audience from what you’re saying, but is also visually tiring and will most likely lose your audience’s attention. Powerpoint should not be use to replace your presentation, only aid it visually. On the other hand, try not to overuse the slide transitions, animated text appearance, sound effects and bold colour. Highlight your key points, don’t distract from them.
Powerpoint Publishing
One of the great things about PowerPoint presentations is that they can be published online. So those who can’t make your presentation or want to refer to it afterwards can access it whenever they need to. Or if you would like to send a copy to your clients and/or shareholders on CD, the presentation can also be made interactive.
The main problems with publishing your presentation online is that the file can be too large to download easily, and they often lack the audio that gives the slides meaning. A multimedia company such as SEO Technologies Pty Ltd can both reduce the size of the file by converting into Adobe flash as well as synchronising any audtio with the slide transitions.
Posted by seotech on December 29, 2009 under web development |
Web Content Management
Web content management systems (CMS) are applications used to create websites and maintain them. It allows web content to be published in an organised manner, with all versions stored for later retrieval. These software applications can handle a variety of media- from text (reports, documents), to PDF files, photos and images. CMS can be used to both publish content on the web, as well as publish documents (annual reports, budgets, newsletters) internally.
The benefits of using CMS, is that although an experienced coder is needed to set up the system, thereafter it is easy for anyone with basic computer skills to use. The What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editor has functionality similar to word processing software, and users can manipulate a variety of HTML and XML templates that can be easily applied to text content from one central place. Content management systems are also flexible, with a variety of plug-ins that can stretch its functionality and provide enhanced features as needed.
Finally, CMS creates and controls parallel and sequential tasks that creates a process of approval before content can be published. This is done by allowing access to users to only those areas for which they are responsible for. It also allows multiple users to log in and work simultaneously, streamlining workflow.
CMS
Web content management systems became developed as commercial software products in the mid 1990s. Today there are a huge range of CMS, from commercial software to freeware and open source programs. They also differ in terms of their programming languages, including Java, PHP, .NET, ASP.NET, and Perl.
There are three main types of WCMS: offline processing, online processing and hybrid systems. Online processing applies templates on-demand, so HTL may be generated when a user visits the page or pulled from a cache. Offline processing means that all content is produced in advance of publishing. Hybrid CMS combine online and offline capabilities. These systems can both generate executable codes in JSP, PHP and Perl outputs, as well as create static HTML pages.
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CMS Capabilities
Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) allow for a dynamic control over various web material, facilitating auditing, editing and timeline management. A typical CMS will create standard output templates that can be automatically applied to new and existing content. This allows all content to be changed from one central place. These systems will also separate content from the visual aspect of the site, making it easier to change and manipulate.
Content management systems can also allow for workflow management by creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks controlled by the CMS. So one person can create content but not publish it until another has revised it and approved it. The system can be set to provide limited access to various users, delegating the responsibility for content management. CMS software can also provide content visualisation so that each user can work within a virtual copty of the entire site, so changes to multiple interdependent resources can be viewed in-context prior to being uploaded.
Web CMS
SEO Technologies’ PowerPage content management system saves web site owners time and money by providing a simple system for updating your web content. Rather than training personnel in FTP protocols, programming and markup languages, PowerPage allows anyone with basic experience in using a word processor to create, edit and update web content.
The Microsoft Word style interface features many of the same functions as Word, including Bold, Italic, Underline, Spell Checking, Hyperlink Creation, Table Editor and Font Size. Existing text and images can be copied and pasted from Microsoft Office documents or existing web pages. It also allows for the easy public posting of pdf files, documents, photos and other materials - without using an FTP client software package.
Furthermore, PowerPage CMS has a multi-level security system that is both flexible and effective. It not only has a password allocation for users responsible for editing your stie, but also a system that restricts access to only the content they are responsible for, thereby protecting the integrity of your web content.
