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Do you like our website? While we can't please everyone, we focus on making small, fast, easy to use websites which work on anything. Although the styling looks very much like websites from the 1990s, we use our own CMS [Content Management System], HexWorx, which can be used to make static websites which exceed one million pages. There is a matching dynamic component which can be used to style unrelated scripts. This includes our shopping basket software which has handled more than £5 million of transactions.
HexWorx is a "website compiler" which uses a Unix Makefile build system. This allows any content to be made into a website. In particular, text held in Microsoft Office formats, OpenOffice and BBCode may be imported directly into a website. As a simple example, CSV data for our courses is styled into the minimum number of table cells using a script which forms part of the build process. Other scripts allow the creation of titled video presentations from a set of PowerPoint/OpenOffice slides, an audio track and a spreadsheet of slide transition times. Video codec tricks ensure that the presentations generally require less than 3MB per minute even when rendered at 3480*2160 pixels.
Overall, we have a system which allows one command, one click builds of website, help files, video tutorials and software compilation. It also works with automated circuit board layout and a shopping basket. Indeed, it can be used to fully automate the specification, design, rendering, compilation and manufacture of a significant number of product variations across a large number of industries. We hope to extend this into automated component ordering. HexWorx also has a feature which flags outdated content. For example, this allows product pricing to be periodically reviewed. This ensures that a vast number of automatically generated products are not sold at a loss nor breach statutory regulations.
While many people are happy with PHP Content Management Systems, such as WordPress, we specialise in very large scale content management which requires management by teams or divisions of an organisation. Small businesses are generally capped at 500-50000 product lines due to the limits of sourcing material or listing product variations. For example, clothing manufacturers may be limited by variations of size and colour for each type of clothing.
If you want to break free from these limitations, we'd like to help you. The first step is to enumerate your products and check that your sourcing is efficient. The second step is to ensure that your processes are efficient. The third step is to ensure that your interface with customers is efficient. Only then do we recommend changes to marketing, branding and website. Indeed, people may be surprised that we do not uniformly recommend our own software. Instead, we may recommend using a different subset of features within your existing software. This includes discontinuing the use of particular features or using a hidden feature.
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