Big Medium Content Management System Adds WYSIWYG Editing and Document Uploads
Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.3, a major update to the company’s web content management system. Big Medium is browser-based software that enables non-technical staff to update websites without learning HTML. New features include WYSIWYG text editing, document uploads, 20 new widgets for webpage templates, and fixes for a number of reported issues.
Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.3, a major update to the company’s web content management system. Big Medium is browser-based software that enables non-technical staff to update websites without learning HTML. New features include WYSIWYG text editing, document uploads, 20 new widgets for webpage templates, and fixes for a number of reported issues.
“The new graphical editing interface makes editing website text as easy and familiar as using a word processor,” said Global Moxie founder Josh Clark. “And the addition of document uploads means that it’s easier than ever to share PDF files, Word documents or other downloads with website visitors.”
Big Medium 1.3 is available now from the Global Moxie website at http://www.globalmoxie.com/. A free online demo is available at http://demo.globalmoxie.com/. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-flavored operating systems. (A beta preview version is also available for Windows servers.)
The new WYSIWYG editor requires Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows only), Mozilla 1.4+ (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) or one of many Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Firefox 0.6.1+, Netscape 7.1, and AOL for Mac OS X. Users of other browsers can still continue to use Big Medium, but without the WYSIWYG editing features.
New features in Big Medium 1.3
- Big Medium’s rich-text editor offers WYSIWYG editing for article content and descriptions, as well as the tip editor.
- The new “download” article type allows documents to be added to websites via Big Medium’s easy-to-use interface. (A tabbed interface allows users to select from four article types: Text, Link, Download, Raw HTML).
- Twenty new template widgets provide enhanced control over the design of Big Medium’s custom page templates.
- New settings in the Big Medium Setup and Site Setup dialogs allow administrators and webmasters to set max-size limits on document uploads.
A detailed list of new features and fixes is available at the Global Moxie website:
http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/about/news/bigmed13_details.shtml
Sophisticated software, affordable price
Priced at just $129, Big Medium is carefully designed to fit within the technical resources and budgets of even the smallest businesses and non-profits. A single installation of Big Medium can manage hundreds of websites on a single server, allowing organizations to provide individual departments, products, employees, teachers or students with their own sites. One price does it all: There are no per-seat licenses or hidden costs.
Big Medium uses custom design templates to manage any website in its own unique look and feel. The templates are simple to create and change, allowing users to give a website a complete design makeover in a matter of minutes, no matter how large the site. Big Medium also comes with pre-formatted templates, or “skins,” allowing users to get up and running with a new site in minutes. Once the sites are set up, administrators can also use Big Medium to backup and duplicate entire sites.
In addition to making it easy to update and maintain website content, Big Medium also gives websites a broad range of interactive features and design elements: easy insertion of pullquotes and images into article pages, content syndication via RSS or JavaScript, printer-friendly pages, “e-mail this page” function, animated navigation bars, and more.
Behind the scenes, every contributor has their own account and password. Big Medium offers five levels of editing permissions, giving site administrators precise control over how writers and editors can add, edit and publish web pages.
Feature Checklist
- Perl-based
- Easy to install
- WYSIWYG content editing (”what you see is what you get”)
- Document uploads
- Custom page templates
- Valid, error-free markup and style sheets
- Clean, intuitive interface
- Manage multiple websites
- Can run in a shared hosting environment
- Content categories and subsections
- News feeds and content syndication
- Search-engine-friendly URLs
- Five levels of access privileges
- Webpages are static and gentle on the server
- Unicode (UTF-8) encoding handles text in any language
- Automated navigation bars and breadcrumbs
- Unlimited images on article pages
- Pullquotes on article pages
Pricing and availability
Big Medium 1.3 is available now from the Global Moxie website at http://www.globalmoxie.com/. A free online demo is available at http://demo.globalmoxie.com/. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-flavored operating systems.
About Global Moxie
Global Moxie creates innovative and affordable tools to make the Web a simpler publishing medium for businesses, non-profits and individuals. The company’s flagship product, Big Medium, allows even the most hardened technophobes to create and edit web pages, effortlessly managing dynamic, fast-moving websites. Global Moxie’s multimedia studio is located in Paris.
Useful Links
Overview of Big Medium’s features: http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/features.shtml
Complete product tour, including screen shots:
http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/tour/
Free online demo:
Featured sites using Big Medium: http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/featured/
