Democratise Your Website Now With The Minds Eye Pollstar100 Web Content Manager.
The Minds Eye Pollstar100 Web Content Manager leverages the well-established technologies of Flash and PHP to provide simple-to-use web-content management combined with a user-feedback capture system. Selected web-content is displayed via a fully customisable Flash user interface. Usage statistics are held on the webhost server via a simple file-based PHP service.
This software is aimed at web-developers of all abilities. It is simple enough to be used by a complete newbie yet powerful enough to become part of any professional web-designers' tool-kit. No knowledge of Flash or PHP are required. All a designer will need in order to use this software is a text-editor capable of outputting text files in UTF-8 format. ie: notepad.
Application
In its simplest form, a web-designer can use the Pollstar100 WCM to create a voting mechanism that can be quickly designed, deployed and re-used across any related HTML content.
In addition, the Pollstar100 WCM can also offer a more complete solution. It can be used to present entire sets of related web content such as a list of products or perhaps articles appearing on a web-forum. Typical applications include the following:
| · | Public opinion polls
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| · | Internal staff surveys
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| · | Product listing and user feedback
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| · | Generic ratings mechanisms
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The main subject matter, lets say a list of products such as DVDs for sale, is contained within a CSV text file. Each record in the CSV file represents a specific product and can have additional information associated with it such as a description, thumbnail image, URL, entry date and so on.
Customisation
Almost every aspect of the end-user interface is customisable via a set of Properties that the designer declares within a Custom XML file. The following features are supported:
| · | Multiple page support for large data sets.
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| · | Sorting of data sets
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| · | Filtering/searching of data sets.
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| · | Counting hits on specific data items.
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| · | Capturing votes on specific data items
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| · | Embedding external resources such as URLs, HTML pages, SWF and JPG files.
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Similar to the way that different Cascading Style Sheets (CSS files) can be used to transform a view of the same web-content; so too then, can different Pollstar100 Applications be defined to act upon the same Sample Data set. The benefits of decoupling content from presentation are clear. For example, a website may easily be re-vamped or re-branded without the need to change the underlying content.
