Imagine maintaining your own website .... where all you need to know is how to surf the net!  If you can browse to your hard-drive and find images ... If you can center and bold text in a "wysiwyg" (What You See Is What You Get) editor ...  Then you can maintain your own corporate, city, high school, or business website.

DWC-CMS is an online service, so there's no hardware or software for you to buy, install or maintain.  The entire website is content driven with Microsoft's powerful SQL Server 2000 running behind the scene.  With the click of a button, you can make any section of your website only available to registered users, or a specific group of users (i.e. - The Sales Department).  Different information is presented based on user profiles.

DWC-CMS is driven by Microsoft's powerful ASP.Net framework on Microsoft's newest server Windows Server 2003.

 

 

Dakota Web Composers CMS is redefining the Web content management industry by changing the way companies manage their Web sites.  It makes it easy for non-technical content authors to create, edit, and manage Web content. It frees Webmasters and IT staff to focus on more critical projects – but still control “look and feel.”  Intuitive and easy-to-integrate, any content contributor can feel right at home.

A website can be among an organization's most valuable assets. But to maintain the value of that asset, the content within the site must be current, accurate and dynamic. Product features, prices, investor information, press releases, customer communications, employee communications and other content requires frequent updating. These ongoing editing requirements can be very time-consuming and costly. As a result many organizations fall behind on content updates, greatly reducing the effectiveness of their web properties.  Dakota Web Composers has developed a content management solution that is powerful, feature rich, and easy to use.

Our CMS system can manage and deliver content to any web interface from virtually any source. This includes the ability to create new content, collect content from existing sources, produce it for web use, deliver it in context and monitor its use by web visitors. These tools ensure an organization’s ability to deliver the right content to the right person at the right time.

This sophisticated tool provides critical balance: centralized control and delegated editing. Site administrators control site structure and content, content workflow and user access rights while subject matter experts throughout the organization update the content for their particular areas. By offering centralized control and delegated administration capabilities, our content management software helps organizations push content management responsibilities to a diverse set of users, including technical and business functions.

The results are ideal: a larger percentage of the company actively owning and updating web properties information while maintaining a consistent look and feel.

Until now, it took substantial capital investment to obtain just a few of the functions provided by our Content Management System. Too often, all that investment really purchased was layers of cumber-some, and often indifferent IT bureaucracy, which itself required costly management oversight.  Our .NET based CMS solution finally allows you to take charge.

DWC-CMS represents a dramatic advance over traditional client/server software. It is instantly accessible from anywhere in the world for easy collaboration among authorized users. There's no hardware or software to buy, install or maintain, so it is fast and affordable to deploy. It's secure and private, and we include data backup and protection as part of our service.

DWC-CMS:

• is designed for Medium to Large Organizations 
• eliminates the need for an Intranet
• replaces Current Publishing Systems
• performs Enterprise-Wide
• supports publishing a wide range of content including:
  • simple pages 
  • complex pages, with specific layout and presentation 
  • dynamic information sourced from databases, etc
  • training materials 
  • online manuals (policy & procedures, HR, etc) 
  • general business documents 
  • thousands of pages in total   

Without an effective authoring process, many attempts at Enterprise-Wide Content Management will wither and fail within a year of implementation. One key to ensuring success is our Integrated Authoring Environment. The DWC-CMS provides a seamless and powerful environment for content creators. Authors are not required to use HTML (or other technical knowledge) when creating pages. Authoring is style-based, with all formatting applied during publishing. Content is easy to create and maintain.

Authors have easy access to the full range of features, which can be made available at the discretion of the website administrator. The DWC-CMS supports many simultaneous users. Features such as record locking ensure that clashing changes are prevented.  And, the site administrator can implement workflow ... so all content can be approved before published, if desired.

The core of the DWC-CMS solution is a central repository, supported by a range of tools for manipulating and managing the content. The repository stores website data on a powerful Microsoft SQL 2000 server.  This powerful back-end offers the scalability to grow well into the future … and the security to know your private data is protected. Adequate security levels and audit trails can be in place to protect the integrity of the content. And, one again, decentralized content creation can be managed with the DWC-CMS workflow module.

The DWC-CMS provides an extensive range of reports, for both users and administrators. And, DWC-CMS can be customized for your specific database needs or reporting requirements.  The publishing engine takes the content stored in the repository, and generates the final pages. This dynamic process includes:

• Stylesheets
  Final appearance is controlled through the use of stylesheets. This provides flexibility and expandability. 
• Page templates
  Overall page layout is specified via page templates. 
• Extensibility
  It is simple to integrate code "snippets" (or equivalent) to provide additional publishing functionality. The DWC-CMS supports a process of "continual improvement" in interface design. 
• Support for multiple formats
  The CMS supports multiple formats, such as: HTML (web), printed, PDF, hand-held (WAP), and more. 

In order to achieve high-quality in every format, content is separated from presentation at the time of authoring. Website users will find clean, consistent, and attractive website presentation because the DWC-CMS uses stylesheets for each output.  In addition, the DWC-CMS is a stable site platform because of:

• Cross browser support
  The pages are viewable in all major web browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc). 
• Valid HTML
  All pages generated will conform to the current HTML specification. This ensures maximum compatibility across browsers and platforms. 
• Effective navigation
  Users are provided with consistent, comprehensive and usable navigation aids. 
• Metadata
  All pages can provide sufficient metadata to allow effective indexing and searching. 

DWC provides site administrator training services, as well as end-user training seminars.  And, the DWC-CMS is supported by adequate documentation for users and administrators.  And, we offer excellent customer support.

And, as stated already, the DWC-CMS is a turnkey solution that requires no hardware or software.