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Now Available: EditLive! for EPiServer CMS 6

The latest version of the EPiServer CMS is geared towards enhancing the web production experience for specific roles within an organization - business owners, editors, marketers and developers.  EPiServer CMS 6 aims to streamline the process of creating and managing content for all of these roles with “Power through Simplicity”.  And since EPiServer allows you to insert your own XHTML editor, why not use it with the most advanced and easy to use rich text editor available? 

Editlive! for EPiServer is available to download now for CMS versions 5 and 6.  It delivers a user experience that’s as easy to use, and as powerful as Microsoft Word.  EditLive! provides many online authoring capabilities for both the content author and administrator that can improve the web content production experience within EPiServer.  Key features such as inline imaging editing, broken hyperlink reporting, accessibility checking, auto-correct and autosave make EditLive! the most efficient rich text editor out there. Context-based commenting capabilities help increase collaboration by enabling users to comment directly on any text or object in an online document, and track conversations related to specific comments.  And for improved web site quality, the templating functionality gives content administrators the ability to create reusable content templates for consistent web site styles and standards that can be easily employed by business users.

EditLive! for EPiServer CMS 6 also adds support for dynamic content and Meridium's Image Vault product.  

We are happy to announce that this October 7, Ephox will sponsor the EPiServer Customer and Partner Day in London. At the event, customers and partners from all points of the UK come together to follow an interesting agenda packed with the latest product updates, external keynote speakers, developer insights, sales training, exhibitions and most important of all, the opportunity to network with industry colleagues.

Download EditLive! for EPiServer now, free for 30 days.

See What’s New in EditLive! 6.7

The new features in EditLive! 6.7 make it easy for non-technical users to create accessible web content.  Features like accessibility check as-you-type make compliance with web standards as easy as spell-checking a document. 

• See an overview of the new features on our what's new page. 
• View a short 5 minute video featuring EditLive!’s accessibility tools
• Download the latest version and view the full list of bug fixes   

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CMSWire: EditLive! and New WYSIWYG Features for Non-Techies

CMSWire: EditLive! and New WYSIWYG Features for Non-Techies

Everyone loves to make their software easy for the non-technical user. Probably, because the non-technical user is usually the one making the decisions. If we make them think that they could “quickly” and “easily” do anything, they feel more empowered.

Some good coverage of our new 6.5 release. Making things easy for end users is precisely what we aim for, while still providing system administrators control via our flexible configuration file to make sure they don't get too carried away.

Press Release: Ephox Helps Non-technical Users Create Compelling Web Content With the Latest Release of EditLive!

SAN MATEO, California and Brisbane, Australia—Sept 10, 2008— Ephox, the leading provider of authoring software for web content, announced the latest release of its online rich text editor, EditLive!. The significant new feature in EditLive! 6.5 is the image editing tool that helps non-technical users quickly and easily create compelling web content.

EditLive!’s inline image editing feature crops, resizes and rotates images with the click of a button, in addition to creating special effects like drop shadow, reflection and rounded corners. Images are automatically re-sized and re-sampled to ensure web appropriate file sizes. There is no need to manipulate images in a separate window or use complicated image editing software – a real time-saver for web authors and a money-saver for IT departments.

“EditLive! 6.5 breaks new ground by enabling business users to create the sophisticated, rich and interactive web sites needed to be successful in today’s marketplace,” said Ephox Director of Products Damien Fitzpatrick. “Today’s business users demand seamless text and image editing performance and Ephox recognizes this.”

In addition to usability improvements, some of the new features in EditLive! 6.5 include the ability to customize the color palette for greater consistency, auto-correct for fixing common typing errors, and added dialects for a total of 28 user interface and international language libraries.

All of the features in the latest release are included in the EditLive! Enterprise Edition which adds advanced productivity, multimedia and collaboration tools like the new image editor, track changes, thesaurus, auto correct, and an advanced Java API library.

About Ephox

EditLive! is the leading cross-platform rich text editor. It is built into leading Web Content Management Systems including IBM, Vignette, Oracle, EMC|Documentum, Percussion, RedDot and Ektron. Since 1999, Ephox has developed enterprise-class authoring solutions that improve the success of business web sites. The company’s products are used by more than 300,000 web content authors in over 1,500 organizations across 35 countries. Customers include Red Bull, ANZ, Northrop Grumman, Swiss Re, Ahold, Kaiser-Permanente, Groupe Danone, and the Victorian Department of Justice. For more information, please visit www.ephox.com.

Press Contact:

Emily McAuliffe

emily.mcauliffe@ephoxdotcom

Ephox Corporation

Main: 650.292.9659 x721

www.ephox.com

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Quarterly Product Update Recording Available

Below is the recording of the July Quarterly Product Update for those who missed it. This was a recording of the North American time slot, hosted by Michael Fromin our Director of Products.

EditLive! is Now More Stylish

Last month the EditLive! team released version 6.4 after six months of diligent developing and testing. Version 6.4 is an important release that focused on improvements to the cascading style sheet (CSS) rendering and editing engine of EditLive!

Improvements to the 'CSS rendering and editing engine' may sound rather technical and you would be forgiven for wondering what, if anything, this has to do with an average author's life?

The answer is that the web content management world needs to lift the bar when it comes to style. Using the words 'style' and 'web content management' in the same sentence might seem odd but it is a brave new Web 2.0 world. The need for creating visually appealing content is much more important now than it has ever been. Boring, static sites just aren't enough.

Modern web sites make use of many web design tricks to deliver a compelling experience. Take a look through Apple's new iPhone site for inspiration for your next web page. Side bars, floating boxes, tabbed tables, fancy lists and rounded corners are everywhere.

EditLive! 6.4 represents the start of many improvements to enable good looking effects to be created quickly and easily. Improvements such as displaying and editing floating 'div' elements are an example of what might at first seem like arcane developer-only features but will ultimately enable authors to easily create floating sidebars and callout boxes.

In the coming months we will be releasing style sheets that make the most of our new found style. Stay tuned as we put some sizzle back in the web content management world!

-Andrew Roberts, Co-Founder and CEO

EditLive!'s Release with Oracle's Universal Content Management

See the positive remarks on Brian 'Bex' Huff 's Blog regarding EditLive!'s release with Oracle's Universal Content Management.   

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See us at Lotusphere, 20 - 24 January 2008

Ephox is exhibiting and presenting at Lotusphere, Orlando, which runs from 20 to 24 January. We invite you to visit us  at booth 712 (see diagram below) or book a 10 minute session with our web content experts.

Signup: http://ephoxatlotusphere.eventbrite.com/

Adrian Sutton will also be hosting Birds of a Feather session on mashups of  Web 2.0 capabilities with Web Content Management at 7:00 - 8:00 am on Thursday 24 January in the Swan Hotel, Peacock 1.

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See us at Gilbane Boston, Nov 27 - 29

Ephox is exhibiting and presenting at Gilbane Boston, which runs from 27 to 29 November at the Westin Copley Place. We invite you to visit our booth (RR) or book a 15 minute session with our web content experts.

Andrew Roberts, our CEO will be presenting at a session on Best-of-Breed Building Blocks for Constructing Ideal User Experiences at 3:30 pm Thursday November 29.

Speakers:
Dan Carmel, CEO, SpringCM
Phil Costa, Director of Product Management, Adobe
Andrew Roberts, CEO, Ephox
Bill Roth, Vice President, Tools, BEA

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CMPros on November 26

Rob Dawson will deliver a presentation at the CM Pros event on Monday 26 November at the same venue.

 

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See us at WebSphere Orlando, Oct 8 - 10

Ephox is exhibiting and presenting at the IBM Websphere Portal Technical Conference, Orlando, which runs from 8 to 10 October. We invite you to visit our booth (110) or book a 15 minute session with our web content experts.

Antony Awaida will be delivering a presentation on increasing collaboration and end user adoption of Portal with Ephox EditLive!. The session, A15, will be delivered in Bonair 1 from 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM on Tuesday 9 October.

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