CompuTrolley.com extends automated Web publishing offering

Following its recent appointment as sole distributor for Avantstar digital content management solutions, CompuTrolley.com has announced that it will be adding the Avantstar Transit suite to its distribution portfolio.

This range, which includes HTML Transit, Transit Central and Transit Central Software Developer`s Kit (SDK), delivers fast prototyping, proofing, deployment and automated revision of corporate portals, business-to-business, or business-to-consumer Web sites.

"By using Transit Solutions to keep your Web site up-to-date, you can focus on making it more useful for visitors. Each visit to your site can be a personalised experience, because different audiences can mark content for their specific use. As each user logs in, information can be revealed to that user, based on their login. Searches can also be filtered according to user access and because users are only presented with relevant information, they can remain focused on the task at hand," says Simon Campbell-Young, MD of CompuTrolley.com.

"Because the product`s output can be integrated with other Web technologies, such as ASP, Java, XML, search tools and databases, Transit Solutions becomes a publishing platform, forming the basis of your Web site. Webmasters no longer have to focus on how to keep the site up-to-date. Instead, they can focus on how to make the site more useful by making it tie-in with other business processes, such as order entry, inventory tracking and maintenance procedures."

Transit Central SDK provides the Web developer with a programmatic interface to Transit`s Web publishing functionality, which can be integrated into any business system or software application. Document management systems, workflow, or other software systems that require efficient, automated Web publishing solutions can benefit from the wide array of integration options available.

HTML Transit users administer the process by creating the project files Transit Central uses, and by scheduling Transit Central updates to happen hourly, daily or weekly.

"With HTML Transit you can specify standard business documents as the source for your Web site, as this application reads the content from source documents, recreates the content in HTML or XML, and publishes the results to your Web site," explains Campbell-Young. "When the content in the source documents changes, you can update the Web site by merely pushing a button. The result is a site that is easy to maintain, contains up-to-date information, while displaying a consistent behaviour and appearance," he adds.