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Easily Create and Update Your Website MSA's content management solutions include a highly intuitive Content Management System. With Content, anyone can easily add, edit, and rearrange content and the hierarchical navigation on your website in seconds. Emergency updates and up-to-the-minute announcements can be published instantly to alert students and employees. It takes only seconds to post an announcement on your website. Invite staff and alumni to upcoming events. Provide your students with information concerning new programs. Now you can make sure that the "look and feel" of your website is consistent throughout your site, so you can better promote your school. All of this is possible using Content. Content Editor – What You See Is What You Get The most important component of your website is its content, and the best way to ensure that your website is a success is to provide effective, fresh content. People are visiting your website because they want current information. Administrators and staff can both contribute content. When different content creators add content to your website, the most up-to-date information is available to the community instantly. There is no need to wait for a single "gate keeper" to take days to make changes when, within seconds, approved users are empowered to update the website with ease. If you can use a word processing program, you can make changes to the website. Content features a built-in WYSIWYG Editor. This technology allows anyone to edit, rearrange, and add to the website. If your staff knows how to use a word processing program, they can make changes to the website without any programming or HTML knowledge. This greatly reduces training costs and time lags for content updates. By using the WYSIWYG Editor, content creators can easily edit information on any web page. There is a simple, yet sophisticated, approval process that will allow you to monitor what information is being posted to the website. You can delegate sections of the page to specific individuals so that each person "owns" a specific portion of individual pages. It is even possible to create multiple versions of the same page and to have timed publishing. Features Easily add and edit pages Built-in approval chain Sophisticated security features Version control Maintain "look and feel" Entirely server based Drag and drop functionality Password protected areas WYSIWYG editor Timed Publishing Whenever an event is canceled due to inclement weather, you can instantly publish different versions of the home page, and then quickly and easily restore the page later in the day, without losing the original content. You can publish content from anywhere in the world. All you need is a web browser! The ease, flexibility, and security offered by Content makes it an ideal fit for the unique needs of firms requiring timed content. Drag and Drop Document Tree By using Content’s drag and drop functionality, you can quickly and easily re-order the web pages to create a different menu structure. Furthermore, Content creates a "breadcrumb" navigation menu instantly when you add a page. Content allows you to create a website that is easy to navigate. You can also quickly change the order of your web pages by simply clicking on the page in the menu tree, and dragging and dropping it into a new location. Download the Content Flyer(PDF) Content Flyer

MSA School District Clients: Mt. Lebanon School District McGuffey School District School District Web Sites Put Technology to the Test Outdated systems upgraded to put more information behind each click Thursday, February 07, 2008 By Maria Sciullo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette High school "clicks" have taken on a new meaning. In an Internet age, it isn't enough to just have a school district Internet site that highlights next Monday's lunch menu. The virtual world is so much more than tater tots, and technology directors such as Maria Borkowski can't wait to show it off. Mrs. Borkowski has been on the job for six months as the South Allegheny School District's director of technology. One of the first things she set out to do was to modernize the district's Web site -- www.southallegheny.org -- which had last been refreshed in 2004. Not to be critical, but it was outdated. "There were kids who graduated four years ago still listed in activities," she said. "With every click, you were further away from accurate and updated information." It's a fairly common story among area schools, actually. Establishing Web sites, which can be designed in-house or hosted by outside companies, is no easy task. Updating the content, such as the week's upcoming events, snow delays, news of teacher awards, can be time-consuming. For many districts, until recently, there was no clear path of delegation to decide who should be doing the work. At least two area school districts -- Baldwin-Whitehall and Keystone Oaks -- are in the process of revamping their Web sites. "We have a major design change in the works," said Tim Winner, Baldwin-Whitehall's director of technology. The trend toward a content management system, or CMS, means news, photos, menus, school calendars, etc. can be updated more easily by the people who have direct access to it. An athletics department secretary, for example, would have access to the system and could update last night's basketball scores instead of having to pass that information down a chain of command to the webmaster. "It causes a bottleneck," Mr. Winner said of the current method. He said he is in the process of developing several options he'll eventually present to the school board. The CMS approach is on display through Mt. Lebanon (www.mtlsd.org), Upper St. Clair (www.uscsd.K12.pa.us) and Bethel Park (www.bpsd.org) sites. "You go to Mt. Lebanon's site and click on the calendar, and you see events for any given building, or maybe just athletics ... on the fly it tells you what you want to see," said Mr. Winner. For the full story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, follow this link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08038/855244-55.stm