New to Athena comes a special internal mail component taking full advantage of AJAX and fragment navigation, this component delivers a fast and responsive internal messaging system all in a clean, friendly interface.The Athena mail component was built to match the Gmail interface, so expect the same power and speed that you'd expect to see from Google. Permalink | 0 Comments
Athena now supports real-time updating for any content page. This allows a user to see as-it-happens changes to pages without the need to reload the page or have clumsy timed reloads. An option to enable this on a page has been added to the advanced tab.
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A gateway system similar to the e-commerce system has been added for SMS providers. First implemented is support for SMS Global, allowing your website to send SMS messages for as little as 5c per message.
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Some upgrades have been applied to the content engine. Created and modify information now includes both the timestamp and owner of both actions, along side the usual logging and revision systems. This improves the information that can be displayed on blogs.An "Author" field has been added to the access tab, allowing you to manually specify the author of the page, now visible in blogs.
Lastly, a multi-purpose "Image" tab is added to all content pages. You can use this to upload an image for a blog item or use it in menus to draw a nice GUI for child pages.
An addition to the Std.AJAX component now allows you to dynamically resize images on the server-side, allowing for you to upload an image of ANY size and have your TEMPLATE resize the image as needed for a particular purpose. That makes life a whole lot easier. Permalink | 0 Comments
Menu items can now have a clearance level required to display the menu item. This is useful for controlling menu items that should only appear if a user if logged in or has access to the target page.You can now control the 'ID' tag on menu UL tags, this may be useful for porting non-Athena templates. Permalink | 0 Comments
A new integrated voting system has been added, allowing editors to add polls inline to any content or allow users to attach polls to a forums thread.The polling interface works via AJAX and allows multiple polls to appear anywhere on the site. Permalink | 0 Comments
Blog style comments can now be applied to any page on an Athena site by checking the 'Show Comments' checkbox in the Access tab of the content editor.A new component has been added to quickly set up new blogs. Enable the new Core component, "Blog" to remove all the unnecessary options and set up those needed for a blog. Permalink | 0 Comments
Content Management System
A content management system designer for commercial use, not for a hobby webmaster. Edit content in HTML or BBCode, lock users to BBCode only, or use a plug-in WYSIWYG editor to meet client requirements.Enjoy real-time side-by-side previews, save and preview as though it were live BEFORE publishing to the public domain. Automatic 301 redirects from old pages, real-time internal URL calculation (never see a 404 on your own website), user clearance levels and groups, restore from old revisions. Restore deleted content. Internal mail systems.
Enterprise Features
Extensive and flexible e-commerce and shopping cart systems. Native PayPal and gateway (ie, eWay) support. Integrated AJAX forums. Integrated user profile systems. Native SMS support. Integrated hit analytics an affiliate controls.Dynamic control over SSL, complex SEO tools, unrestricted URL editing. Automated and customisable menu generation. See pages automatically update in real-time as content editors add new content.
Media Management System
Upload artwork from the administration interface, change logos, banners, etc in your browser. Templates can have alternative images automatically resized on the server to suit the template or condition, never shall you upload multiple versions of the same image.All systems have an integrated user-friendly image uploader with progress bar and upload information. Use the optional MCE Image Editor within forums to allow end-users to resize, rotate or crop images.
Advanced Mechanics
Full memory caching decreases CPU load and increase page generation time. Calls to the database and drastically reduced. When integrated with NovaTek Echelon you can process thousands of tasks simultaneously for bulk processing. Vector imaging classes intelligently deliver images in VML or SVG depending on the client browser. Create cross-platform graphs in real-time.Abstract base content topology allows for a truly extensible and limitless content hierarchy. Completely unrestricted component outlay, inherit and enhance other components. Automated control over the X-UA header. Heavy use of AJAX and fragment navigation to increase speed and user-friendliness. Keyboard hot-key integration for common desktop shortcuts.
Backup and Contingency
All actions logged in Athena's own logging system - complete with user, IP, proxy and session information. Alerts sent on critical actions. All content changes are revised - you can always roll-back changes. Restrict users from actions to allow for a safe "Web 2.0" user system.Host hundreds of sites on the same file-system in server mode or redeploy in single-site mode. Update all sites in real-time. All per-site databases automatically updated. Backup everything in one single action.
Users and Clearance
User clearance levels - control view and edit access based on a user hierarchy. Define user groups. Inherit permissions, lock off sections of the site by altering ascendant permission sets.Athena is available as a business solution. If you are interested in using Athena as your web platform for a website or online application solution, please contact us and we'll provide you with the best solution to suit your needs.