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Thinking Arts has recently completed development of The Tetley Workshop website.
 This is a Thinking Arts Standard Solution.
Thinking Arts has been commissioned to
design and implement a new website for Blazing Tales Theatre Company.
This
is a Thinking Arts Standard Solution.
Version 4 of the Thinking Arts Content
Management System will be released at the end of April. The online system,
used by all Thinking Arts clients, enables the editing, addition and deletion
of content on their websites.
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Content Editing
We understand that our client's want a modern, easily navigable website, which they can maintain themselves. To permit this our websites' pages can be modified by our clients using the administration system in one of two ways.
Database Driven Pages
A 'database' is an organized collection of data. It allows individual records (e.g. members, products, etc.) to be rapidly fetched, and specific items of data (e.g. name, price, time etc.) to be found. The ability to reliably retrieve individual pieces of data is particularly important where that data needs to be validated (e.g. a date checked) or where it is used in processing (e.g. a weight used in a freight calculation). Specific tables are created for each type of data (e.g. Member table, Event table etc.). The Thinking Arts software is supplied to our clients with all the tables that they require ready to use.
Database records are added, amended and deleted using simple forms. Most users will already be familiar with such forms, for example to supply name, address and credit card information when making a purchase over the web. All changes made to the database are immediately reflected on the main website.
Display pages
The second way a user amends the content of their website is by amending a display page. A display page is simply a web page, parts of whose content (graphics, text, links etc.) can be changed using the administration system's Display Page Editor. Typical examples of display pages are the About Us, Contact Us and Privacy Policy pages.
The display page editor is a simple WYSIWYG editor, with an interface which will be familiar to anyone who has used a tool such as Word or Open Office. Unlike a form based record, a display page can have a more flexible and varied layout, and can contain embedded style information, for example to make text bold, create a heading or to align a picture or graphic. Changes to pages can be saved as drafts, and previewed in the application, before they are applied to the main website.
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