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Home About Want one? Examples FAQ Open Houses AppleVention Feedback				About Weblogs Applications Weblogs replaces HTML editors, word processors, FTP clients and groupware such as Lotus Notes, with the simplest writing environment of our day, the web browser. You can use Weblogs to maintain a product catalog or course catalog. Every page is a product fact sheet. Product managers and professors edit their own pages. Use Weblogs to link together websites all over your organization. Create a daily news page to allow everyone from all corners of the world to keep up on what's happening in your company or government organization. Weblogs turns the web into a project manager. Start a new site for every project. Use it to coordinate activities, and to market and document your work. Weblogs has powerful applications in education, where communities last for a semester, but classes are repeated year after year. Each class is a website, each student has a website, as does each teacher. The possibilities are wide-open. Keep your to-do list in a Weblogs site. When you need to update your personal plan, find a web browser and log on. Weblogs is a home product too. Create a family magazine with columns by Aunt Judy and Uncle Phil, grandma and grandpa, even extended family members can participate! Weblogs easy support for images makes it ideal for family photo albums. Post stories as you travel so the folks back home know you're having fun. Key Features Browser-based editing. Manage your home page, write stories with pictures, organize and present your thinking, with any web browser, anywhere. Edit this Page Edit this Page buttons are everywhere, making site updates easy. No messing with the file system, editors, FTP programs, and hard to remember URLs. You can't lose anything because once you found it on the web, you've found it! This single feature cuts the complexity of writing for the web by orders of magnitude. It's so easy it's revolutionary. Site membership Allows you to gather customized information from people who use your site. Database storage is automatic thru XML-specified templates. Membership profile pages help community-building. Simple publishing model Managing editor, contributing editors, members. Full discussion group runs behind the scenes. Link management thru shortcuts takes complex HTML out of the way of writers. Email notification can be sent to the editorial team when a new story is posted or when an existing story changes. Easy navigation Thru back-issues of the home page thru an intuitive calendar. Every issue has its own URL. Powerful customization Thru templates, navigation, CSS, JavaScript. Full control over HTML. Unbalanced tags are automatically balanced. Content is separated from form Designers edit templates, while writers independently create stories, photographers and artists place pictures. The site template can change without updating any content. Full content management system Templates, shortcuts, stories, pictures, macros. Highly reliable server built on scalable system software. Friendly community The idea of doing content managed sites in a web browser is so new, we're all newbies, but we're learning quickly!