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Wed, 24 Sep 2003

Big Medium 1.2 adds RSS news feeds, easier page editing and more

Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.2, 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 in Big Medium 1.2 include RSS news feeds, support for non-western languages and a new, streamlined editing interface that makes webpage publishing even easier and more intuitive.

September 24, 2003 -- Global Moxie announced the release of Big Medium 1.2, 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 in Big Medium 1.2 include RSS news feeds, support for non-western languages and a new, streamlined editing interface that makes webpage publishing even easier and more intuitive.


"With its new features and intuitive interface, Big Medium does for commercial sites what blogging software did for personal online journals: provide an easy, effortless way to keep websites fresh," said Global Moxie founder Josh Clark. "Big Medium fills a critical need for small businesses and non-profits. While bloggers enjoy easy and affordable publishing tools, Big Medium is the first tool in its category to bring similar simplicity to the publication of other types of content websites, including online magazines, marketing sites, schools, intranets, newspaper sites and much more."


About.com recently ranked Big Medium as one of the "Top 10 E-Commerce Solutions." Exceptionally easy to use, Big Medium is also powerful enough to manage very large, fast-changing sites. The software empowers writers, editors and business users to update websites directly, freeing web professionals of tedious maintenance tasks so that they can be more productive and creative.


"Big Medium is the single best online tool I have ever used," said Bob Thornton, national program director of Adonai Radio Group, which uses Big Medium to run four radio-station websites. "The software is a huge hit with my users."


NEW FEATURES IN BIG MEDIUM 1.2


  • RSS news feeds allow website visitors to subscribe to website headlines and content.

  • Unicode (UTF-8) support allows publication of content in non-western languages.

  • Streamlined edit page makes adding and editing web pages faster, easier and more intuitive.

  • New text-formatting options allow enhanced control over simple formatting tasks.

  • Big Medium's "tips" (micro-content that appears throughout the site) can now be rotated to display different content on every page.

  • Additional template "widgets" give webmasters more options to customize their sites.

  • Big Medium's content affiliate program offers enhanced control over the appearance and format of links (the content affiliate program allows website visitors to put automatically updated headlines/links from Big Medium-managed sites on their own websites).

  • Performance improvements make Big Medium faster at building pages.

  • A variety of reported issues have been fixed.



The Global Moxie website offers a more detailed list of new features and fixes.


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.


"Like any other company, we're always looking for opportunities to shave costs," said Brad Randlett, CEO of Affordable Translations. "In the past when we needed to update our website, even with small edits, we had to hire a web contractor. By making it incredibly easy for us to maintain and edit our website ourselves, Big Medium has brought our website costs nearly to zero."


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, 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.


PRICING AND AVAILABILITY


Big Medium 1.2 is available now from the Global Moxie website at http://www.globalmoxie.com. A free online demo is available at http://demo.globalmoxie.com. Big Medium is licensed for $129, with free updates for one year. The suite of Perl scripts runs on servers operating the Unix operating system, including Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris and FreeBSD.


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:

http://demo.globalmoxie.com/


Featured sites using Big Medium:

http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/featured/


Comments from Big Medium's customers:

http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/tips/

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