Extenso

Extenso it’s more than it seems...

Extenso is much more than simple software allowing editing of Web sites, it’s a complete development platform for the Web conceived and carried out fully by Sednove.

Extenso is a software platform used by Sednove to develop all our web sites, applications and tools used by clients.

Extenso is the heart, the meeting place, and the driving force of all our developments.

Lets open the hood to see what makes Extenso so fast:

• Extenso is a module integrated in Apache
• It has been developed in Language C to get ultra fast performance
• It’s modular so it allows adding new functions
• It includes a compiler for page development
• It offers web interface for the creation and management of data base table

If technical terms haven’t tired you yet, here are other technical specifications and functions of Extenso:

• Extenso is an ensemble of modules allowing speedy creation of sites and/or web applications
• Extenso manages easily and promptly all types of contents: texts, images, files (pdf, doc, video, mp3, Flash etc), tables, hyper links etc
• It generates contests for site pages in html, dhtml, javacript, Flash, Quark Express etc.
• Extenso is entirely adaptable to your needs
• It creates automatically navigation menus
• Extenso can create a development site and, if needed, a validation site and even numerous production sites
• Editing and updating of the site is done by copying the pages of the development site to the main site
• Extenso offers an editing bar allowing text modification. The bar offers the following possibilities: bold characters, italic characters, characters and fonts in colour, different font sizes, font adjustment, text alignment, numbered list, unordered list, insert a table, an image, a link.
• Extenso offers easy-to-use updating interfaces that could be entirely personalized and adapted to your needs.
• Extenso allows secure user management
• Extenso can be used to manage internet, extranet, intranet sites
• Extenso controls access to sites and to the administrative centre of sites
• Access is classified by role and group
• Extenso manages static pages as well as dynamic pages
• Extenso creates and saves automatically form data
• Extenso allows automatic creation of data base
• Extenso supports many type of data base
• It offers version support
• It allows downloading of files in all formats (jpeg, gif, word, flash, video, excel, Flash etc)
• Extenso allows management of contents (text, image, xml etc)of flash files
• Extenso allows to choose the date, hour, minute of the update
• Extenso allows to track work flow approbation
• Extenso is compatible with Linux and all other versions of Unix
• Extenso allows automatic sending of e-mails
• Extenso generates statistic reports for all applications
• Extenso creates automatically data archives
• Extenso allows managing static pages or publishing of static pages from predefined template or both. It’s better to have the pages published prior to viewing that will make the pages appear faster and will increase usage quality. For many content management systems, all the pages are dynamic. For example, there is a page with a title, most of tools start by reading the title in the database, build the page and return the page to the user and that applies to all users of the site, if it’s 1 or 1 million users.

The site is available at URL: http://www.sednove.com

It uses the latest version of Extenso. This version works also with DirectMail used for news. As for the pages of development site, a pencil appears to allow direct editing of the page.

Launching of the production of the official site can be done on or off-line.

Moreover, section to the right shows randomly pertinent facts about different points of interest. This part of the site is controlled by random display module of Extenso.

Extenso plain text search engine is also used by the site. The search engine has been optimized in order to make research possible in some specific sections and therefore avoid showing all pages while researching. The research is done solely in the language of the selected site.

News are shown by date in declining order.