MicroZone public relations has appointed new-media company FLUX to create a website for SAVANT - the vanguard of South African technology. The website will be the primary vehicle to carry the SAVANT initiative and will serve as an effective portal linking the ICT and electronics sector with local and global markets.
MicroZone public relations has appointed new-media company FLUX to create a website for SAVANT - the vanguard of South African technology.
The website will be the primary vehicle to carry the SAVANT initiative and will serve as an effective portal linking the ICT and electronics sector with local and global markets.
"FLUX was appointed after coming out tops in a very strict filtering process," says Pieter du Plessis of MicroZone. "The main criteria were that the company had to be South African and have locally-developed, proven products. FLUX met these criteria and the company's existing successes speak for themselves."
FLUX will develop and implement a wholly South African designed system already successfully implemented for various large organisations in the world. "The site will be designed to accommodate every need SAVANT could possibly have to reach its objectives. The focus is on ease-of-use and empowering the owners/capturers to manipulate the website themselves," explains Hendrik Minnie, managing director of FLUX.
SAVANT's website will run on FLUX's WebEasy content management system, which makes it possible for non-technical people without any website development knowledge to create and maintain web pages without compromising the security, quality and overall look and feel of the website. It is an open-ended system that easily extends and integrates with other conventional business systems. "With WebEasy, all information is hosted in a secure environment, and only users that created information will be able to change that content, by logging on with designated usernames and passwords," Minnie adds.
Conducting business on the Internet or intranet requires effective organisation of information from various sources. WebEasy is a browser- and e-mail-based content management product that excels in user management, multiple administrators, repository management, workflow, personalisation and various optional plug-ins. It boasts an easy-to-use, browser-based interface with a "what you see is what you get" web page builder.
"The look and feel of the site will be developed with great attention to detail. The front-end development of our solution will be designed to allow for the closest possible adherence to the corporate identity guidelines," Minnie continues.
The WebEasy solution will include the PageBuilder content editor; a dynamic menu system; templates; automated homepage management; a basic search engine; a "development" and a "live" environment on a single server; a "send to a friend" option; and easy print functionality. The system also caters for various content objects and managers to be used and implemented in conjunction with the core system.
"We have full confidence in FLUX's ability and believe that Micro-Zone made the right choice," says SAVANT's spokesperson, Adrian Schofield. "We are especially pleased that we can support local technology and proud to show the rest of the world what South African companies are capable of."
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