Re: structured content reuse

Guys

You need to take a look at FatWire Content Server. It
gives you the choice of web forms or Word as the
authoring tool. You can even drag and drop entire
documents that have been contructed elsewhere (even
from a DM system for complex documents)if you want
them managed in that way.

Rob

 --- Grant Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote: >
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 18:38, Eoin Campbell wrote:
> > I am also constantly amazed at the lack of support
> for importing
> > Word content into Web CMSs. The CMS vendors all
> seem to believe their
> > own marketing hype that their through-the-web
> form-based HTML editors
> > are "WYSIWYG" and "Word-like".
> > They also seem to assume that most content is
> initially authored inside
> > the CMS environment, whereas the opposite is more
> generally the case.
> 
> I share your frustration and our experience matches
> your own. However,
> we're actively seeking to turn many of our
> publishing processes around. 
> 
> Our situation is probably not that dissimilar to
> most universities in
> that there is a growing recognition that most of our
> clients interact
> with our website as a first preference rather than
> resorting to our
> printed publications. This increasingly important
> population has not
> been well served by priority being given to print
> publishing processes
> over preparation of content for the web. 
> 
> Some of our web content is still initially authored
> in word processing
> applications, but we're highlighting the importance
> of the web, skilling
> authors to write for the medium, providing a CMS to
> facilitate their
> work and utilities to assist them in exporting
> content to print.
> 
> Cheers
> Grant
> 
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