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When the source document for the content element is edited, all the published versions change. Our scheduled publishing capability lets us change an element of content, and have all the pages on which that element appears change at the scheduled date and time.
If the different pages use different CSS style sheets, then the reused content appears differently, matching the appropriate channel appearance.
CMS Consultants hopes also to structure the content of important pages on the site, for example Press Releases. This will allow boiler plate sections of the press release to be maintained separately.
Website section editors can choose any number of reusable elements to appear in the right-hand column of the pages in their sections. Current versions of all the available reusable elements are shown in the column on the right.
Specific section pages can have a different grouping of reusable elements, provided a new page template is designed. At the moment there is one template for the landing page and all the section pages.
To understand how the timeLines Pages module ("the CMS") handles reusable content elements, see Pages and Templates
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Business: Astoria Software is an XML content management applications company. Its software family includes an XML content repository and complementary applications for the dynamic publishing of product content such as technical documentation, customer support, maintenance information, and training docs. This content is created once, then re-used everywhere, and easily reformatted/assembled for any delivery channel -print or electronic.
Profession: I am a content creator, manager, and publisher. As director of marketing communications, I write positioning/messaging for our company, translate that into sales tools, collaterals, web copy etc., and publish it via my various channels and formats - to the newswires in the case of p.r., web copy on the website, in blogs, and in good old fashioned printed literature or advertisements, on occasion.
Why CMS Consultants? I wanted to get an education on what are the needs, concerns and pains of content professionals, and to meet more real life practitioners.
Quote: "This is an exciting time both for content publishers and technology tool providers as delivery appliances evolve, and content proliferates everywhere and gets personalized."
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