The answer is the Sliced Bread Content Management Tool
Benefits for Businesses
Sliced Bread is a server based product packed with great features that gives you control over your own website. There is no need to pay for designers just to add new content every time you want to add something new!
If you can use a word processor and surf the Internet, you can use Sliced Bread!
The Main Benefits are:
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Reduced Overall Cost; |  |
You are in control of your site not a designer; |
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Websites that change reguarly attract more customers; |  |
The web can become a real sales channel or information channel for your business |
Where does Sliced Bread Fit?
A web design application like Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia's Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive is ideal for a graphic designer or web developer to DESIGN a website, but not particularly useful for end users to manage their website. Most web designers use a web design program to design the initial website templates in collaboration with a graphic imaging program like Adobe Photoshop and a simple text editor for tweaking of code and scripts like JavaScript.
But these web design applications are not designed for a business person who wants to manage their own website, and you risk deleted pages, mixed up content and a generally broken website. Sliced Bread gives you control over the website and a rapid development environment so you can continue to add content to your wesbite, easily an withe all the navigation and templates intact!
Benefits for Developers
Sliced Bread is a server based product packed with great features that gives you the web designer control over the site, whilst allowing your clients to manage their own content safely and easily.
Faster Development Process
Using Sliced Bread your website can be developed and deployed much faster than traditional development methods. Multiple authors, content providers and designers can contribute to the site and then the entire site can be published.
Permissions Management
Extensive permissions management means you can lock down what the client can and cannot do, so they cannot "accidentally" delete the main template and then publish the site. And if the client does make a huge mistake, it can generally be rectified easily, by reverting the site or the page to the previously saved version!
Users can be granted update rights to a single page, a group of pages, a section or the entire site.
How it Works
You design the website and the templates for the home page and inside section pages of the site using the web design applications of your choice. Then you import the templates into Sliced Bread on the web server. You then set up the content sections of the website like, News, Links, Products Services etc into modular templates for ease of navigation and site architecture. Then your basic website is created you just need to start adding content!
You or the client creates the website by adding each page of the site, choosing a section template and either copying and pasting the page content or importing the content from Microsoft Word files!
Sliced Bread generates the validated HTML code for you, creates the menus and other navigation elements placing all the elements of each webpage into the modular templates already created and allows you to surf through your website to check for errors. You can test your website exactly the same way your users will see it before it has even been published!
Formatting and publishing 100 pages is almost as easy as formatting and publishing one.
Web Content Management Software was never easier to use!
Sliced Bread is not a web design tool and does not replace your favorite web design application. Sliced Bread allows your clients to efficiently manage their website easily and with the minimum risk extending your value to the client and keeping you the designer in the picture.
In practical terms, that means your client should be able to manage their own content (or you can manage it for them) without breaking their website. When a new page is added Sliced Bread makes sure the new page winds up in the right spot. And when the page gets published, the page should use the same template as other pages in that section, be listed in the correct menu and all navigation elements should be consistent!
