Over the last four or five years businesses using the web have gone through a number of revolutions in how news content is managed, integrated and maintained.

On face value the usual problem is devising a system that is equally easy to maintain as well as use.

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When you dig deeper companies have other issues relating to ownership and distribution of not just news but any kind of information that could be beneficially used either internally, in the public domain or privately via controlled intranet and extranet sites. The issues often cut across departments. What should be ‘in the news’ and how do you use news to inform, inspire, educate and generate new business for the company? Indeed, how do you best organise the company website and internal systems for business development purposes in the internet era?

Until quite recently, most companies were content with standard web pages and separate news or press release sections with the occasional animated news feed. ‘Click here for news’.

But what if you could provide customisable news and other information based on user preferences and / or the pages being displayed?

With the new Quantos system we wanted to achieve all these goals and provide clients with ability to ‘subscribe’ to our news snippets service - the ability to receive a short news snippet with a link through to the full article and the other information behind it.

“We’re going to do this by email-only initially but plan to add mobile news snippets in the near future” Says Colin Hiom.

“Users can presently choose to receive snippets from all facets of new content going onto the website or from specific areas of interest such as new projects, features, case studies or people”.

The content for the ‘news’ stories, written to be informative and inspiring rather then purely functional, is created directly by our consultants so that each feature reflects an insight into his or her specialist field. This way the management overhead is kept low but the network is fully galvanised to add interesting content of their own.

Technically, each system user has access to a specially created online control panel (in .asp) that enable him to create, edit or add new content to the system together with the ability to categorise both the content type, publication date and whether the story is for designed for wider distribution (via email or mobile snippets).

The Quantos site itself is largely built in standard html and asp but uses Dreamweaver templates for content and layout control with version check-in and check-out for multi-person editing environment – although Quantos builds and can advise on many other systems configurations – depending on existing skills, management scope, overhead costs and overall scope of the project.

For more in-depth information about news and content management systems please visit:

aboutus/solutions/content/

Or contact us on 07958 695444 or email colin@quantos.co.uk