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Products and Downloads
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The services section introduces some of the ways in which KnowNet can help your project or organisation to create, host and maintain an effective and dynamic web presence which encourages and supports collaboration and active knowledge development
- Products
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The products section introduces the work KnowNet is doing on a variety of open-source products. It includes detailed information about products which we have released to the open-source community, and tracking information on other products 'in the pipepline' or planned for the future
- Downloads
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The downloads section contains downloadable versions of products we have released to the wider open-source community, and details about support areas and updates to those products
Services we can offer
KnowNet can offer a range of services to help projects and organisations maintain a dynamic presence on the web. We can be particularly helpful if some combination of the following matter to you:
- Being easily able to take control of your own site content
- Excellent presentation of site content, with very clear navigation
- Excellent support for community-building activities such as focused online discussions
- Support for project-management features online
- Being able to work together with experts to co-develop the features and content that matter to you
- Knowing that you can move your site and its content to another host or content-management system in the future without fuss
- Knowing that your site will benefit from ongoing software and feature-development work from the Open-Source movement
- Accessibility of your site to people who have special requirements or use special tools or browsers for accessing webpages
- Support for web standards and other emerging interoperability standards, so that your site looks good in every browser, and interacts well with other sites and services
We can also be particularly useful to projects or organisations which want to base their sites on existing open-source software - in particular Zope and Plone - but need extra features which require intensive customisation or special software-development work. Zope and Plone are extremely powerful, and are gaining a lot of attention and support both among people who want to easily maintain their own sites, and among software developers who want their work to contribute to longer term improvements in the 'two-way web'. But these web-application frameworks have very steep learning curves; it takes much intense experience to get the most out of them, especially to know how to meet users' feature requests effectively and rapidly. We at KnowNet have been developing extensively in Zope and Plone for some time now, and are confident of our ability to understand and meet the particular needs of your own sites within the framework of Zope and / or Plone.
See our communities pages for some examples of the kind of work KnowNet is doing to help organisations to create and maintain high-quality, dynamic websites.
We can also help you to improve your existing open-source based websites by developing special 'products' you can install in the sites to add functionality to them. Some products to enhance Zope and Plone are available as free downloads in our downloads area; we can offer advice and support for installing these products in your own sites, and for adapting them to your particular needs. We have a number of other product lines in current development, and can, on request, push forward special solutions based on this work; examples are: special tools and wizards for creating and managing complex questionnaires, highly graphical data-gathering and data-visualising solutions based on the Scalable Vector Graphics standard, and special interfaces for managing task or goal-oriented discussions and collaborations.
Information about products and development plans
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Overview of development plans to Q2 2005
- This area gives an overall picture of KnowNet's plans for software development and product releases through the first half of 2005, and introduces our long term goals and the motivation behind our development activities
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knotes : discussion and web-logging for Plone - now in 0.85 beta
- knotes provides a comprehensive suite of new functionalities to Plone sites: a very fast and effective discussion system and a complementary web-log publishing system, both fully supporting the major weblogging standards: trackback, the MetaWeblog, Blogger and MovableType APIs and RSS. Current version is 0.85 beta.
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KNFastFolders - dynamic ajaxian sitemap (now deprecated for KNotes blogging and discussion)
- KNFastFolders is a fast ajaxian dynamic sitemap interface for viewing and managing hierarchically structured content in Plone. As of March 2006 it has been deprecated as a viewing option for KNotes blogging and discussion
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KNSiteContent
- KNSiteContent is a suite of Plone content types which make it much easier for ordinary end-users to create and manage effective site content. The main ingredient is a siteContent type which is both folderish and contentful in the sense of having body content. Release of a beta is due in February 2005, with interim availability of subsidiary products slightly earlier on request.
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Evaluation Tools (for project-evaluation, self-evaluation, etc)
- KnowNet has produced several tools which can aid in the process of project-evaluation, reflective self-evaluation, etc.
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Minor products and special types
- KnowNet has developed an assortment of special Plone content types and customised navigational and other interface elements, which complement the major product types we have developed. This area introduces these, and gives an overview of our plans for further developments
Downloads - open source products
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KNotes
- knotes provides thorough implementations for two important kinds of user activity which have been weaknesses of Plone, which we call 'discussability' and 'blogability'.
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KNFastFolder
- KNFastFolders / FastForums provide a very fast and effective interface for viewing and managing hierarchically structured content in Plone. It makes a particularly good interface for KNDiscussions, and a much smoother and quicker interface for managing Plone site content.
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