Odin Organic Framework v3.0 (OOF) is a robust platform that offers many base features. These features include:
Platform Independent/Publish Anywhere: With a secure web based authoring system, its easy to maintain your content anywhere and at anytime.
Platform Independent WYSIWYG Editing: OOF offers two WYSIWYG editing environments, a DLL based version for Windows based users, and a Java based version for Macintosh/Unix users. Our WYSIWYG allows you to cut and paste from many popular applications, here are just a few: Microsoft Word, Excel, and even Internet Explorer, with the pre-existing formatting intact.
Design Integrity: By limiting the authors focus to just the real content, OOF easily maintains design integrity. Navigation and interface are managed dynamically by the software.
Adobe PDF Generation: With one click, enable any article to be available not only as HTML, but as company branded, hyper linked Adobe PDF document.
Image Generation and Processing: In the real world flexibility counts, OOF offers dynamic image generation and processing to allow you to change your web site color scheme and design rapidly. Using colorless image "templates", OOF creates color washed versions to match your web site. To ensure performance all generated images are cached.
Internal Color Scheme Logic: Using user defined base and background colors, OOF dynamically authors a cascading style sheet with complimentary colors.
Intuitive Web Based Interface: Modeled after the Folder/File design commonly found on most computer desktops, building a web site is straight forward and fast. With multiple users modes, the less commonly used and more advanced options are suppressed from view until a user implicitly enters Advanced Mode.
Automatic Hyperlink Management: Because OOF maintains and renders your web site navigation elements dynamically, hyperlink integrity is always ensured. Through the use of 404 error management, OOF can capture the traffic from expired links as well.
Automatic Search Engine Optimization: Based upon the recommendations of a third party search engine consultancy group, OOF dynamically manages meta-data, maintains link integrity and much more.
Stealth Mode: Designed for Search engines that shy away from dynamic content, OOF Stealth Mode, automatically masks 95% of your dynamic resource urls as search engine friend HTML documents.
Menu Rendering Engine: OOF manages major navigation elements through its Menu Rendering engine, offering twenty menu styles, all controllable through cascading style sheets.
404 Error Management: Designed to capture lost traffic, OOF responds to expired links requests (404 Errors) with a user definable message and/or search tool in your standard web site template. Optionally have OOF send detailed e-mail reports when 404 errors occur.
Content Management: Create and maintain an unlimited number of Categories and Articles. OOF offers support for multimedia as well, including the Apple Darwin Streaming Server in all Enterprise licenses.
Global Find and Replace: As your web site grows, sometimes you need to make global adjustments. OOF offers a Global Find and Replace tool to update Categories and Articles.
Multi-lingual Spell Checker: Proof your Articles online using the included Spell check tool. With 22 language packs available, its easy to author your web site in any language.
Article Interactions: Configure your Articles to offer various user interactions, such as "Print This Page", "E-Mail to a Friend", and/or "Rate This Resource"
Automatic Content Relationships: Based upon real user traffic, OOF can be configured to offer suggestions on other content items a visitor may be interested (Users who were interested in this resource, may also be interested in ...)
Privatized Editing: Create new articles in a protected/hidden environment, review them privately, and publish only when you are satisfied with the results.
Import: Easily cut and paste from many popular applications with the formatting kept intact.
Version Management: Supporting an unlimited number of versions of each article, easily make modifications, and if the final result isn't perfect, simply roll back a version.
Web site Based Editing: When enabled, just browse through your web site, and click "Edit Category" or "Edit Article" to make live changes.
Expandable Platform: Easily enhance your OOF based web site by adding extension Modules. Choose from our constantly growing library, with over 35 already available.
Traffic Analysis/Real-time Activity Views: Track users as general trends using the integrated statistics engine or view where your users are on your web site at any second using the real-time activity viewer.
Minimal Training: Because of our easy to follow File/Folder analogy as well as our WYSIWYG editing tools, the average computer user can publish with ease.
Minimized Costs: OOF was designed to minimize and/or replace costly web development fees. The ASP model combines web hosting, e-mail hosting and a continually updated CMS package for a low set monthly fee.
Time To Market: By removing custom development time, and enabling an unlimited number of authors, its easy to see how OOF can significantly cut deployment times.
