Content management terminology changes with time. The times of the Micro CMS may soon be gone, as now it appears it is the era of the simple CMS, — at least as positioned by Bizy, Inc. They have announced the distribution of their “simple CMS” product Bizyweb. Were they joking?
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Bizyweb: The Debut of the “Simple CMS”
Akmin technologies has launched the newest version of their private label online website building solution SiteGalore and this one is packed with lots of enhancements and a number of useful features straight from the Google itself.
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SiteGalore Raises Bar with v16 Release
Oh writers. No one has time to read what we write anymore. Even more reason to make what you do write concise, clear and effective.
Writing for the web, no matter how many times we say it, is different that writing for print. Readers are not likely to read every word. They’re going to glance, skim and scan their way through your content, most likely with a cup of coffee in hand or checking email simultaneously.
With such a wayward bunch of users, what’s a web content writer to do? Chris Nodder, user experience specialist at Nielsen Norman Group thinks you simplify content to make it as accessible as possible. Most users are visiting your site through a search engine rather than going directly to a site’s home page, so why not make it easy to find what they want.
Nodder offers up some “Sign Posts” indicating “where else readers can go for more specific information and related resources such as white papers”.
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Do’s and Don’ts When Writing for Your Audience
With the cost of travel and fuel continuing to rise, I don’t understand why anyone would launch or even pitch a travel site right now, unless it was designed to help people make the most of in-town bus vacations (note to self…). But that opinion hasn’t slowed the steady stream of pitches I’ve been hearing for vacation-planning sites. The latest: PlanetEye, a service relying on some technology spun out of Microsoft.
PlanetEye is a great site for viewing travel photos of the location you’re thinking of going to. It is also supposed to help you find the cool things to do once you’ve got a location for your trip narrowed down. Then you can save your finds into a “Travel Pack” that you can easily retrieve when it’s ready to embark on your voyage. You can also share your plans with the other people on your trip, so they can contribute to building your hit-list of things to do as well.
PlanetEye is good for scouting photos of a vacation destination, but less good at finding restaurants and attractions.
The site uses Microsoft Maps, and does a nice job of displaying trip photos from other users. But I found it frustrating to use the map to look up attractions and restaurants. Each item (or collection of closely grouped items) on the map is represented by a dot, but there’s no way to know what the dots stand for without clicking on them, and even when you do, the information you want displays in a navigation bar, not on the map as you’d expect. It’s hard to correlate the navigation bar text with the map. This design sucks the fun out of exploring a destination, and, to me, defeats a primary purpose of the site.
If you want a more typical travel guide experience, though, PlanetEye does offer that. There are City Guides for popular destinations, with the usual lists of most popular tourist attractions. Many major cities also have Local Expert pages, which feature more personal guides. Items you find in either of these guides can be added to your Travel Packs.
Coming up soon will be integration with more data sources, such as OpenTable, StubHub, WaySpa, and Wine Spectator. Trip booking via Travelocity is on the way. And the Travel Packs may get smarter, and start to suggest items to you based on what you have already added to them and what you say about yourself in your profile. I’d wait until these new features are added, in mid-July, to rely on this product for planning trips.
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See also: Dopplr, TripAdvisor, Tripbase, TravelMuse.
The site has useful, but typical, city guides.
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PlanetEye blends travel photos, trip planning
Let me expand on the metaphor. Your new girlfriend is your business website, and you can’t wait to start introducing her to everyone - you’re in love. But first, to know whether this relationship is going to make it, you have to get the father’s approval. The father, Google in this metaphor, […]
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Google is like the ex-Navy Seal dad of your new girlfriend.
