WMaker team has made a big step on the path to the creation of a new offer 100% webtv. Today, as a preview, we put online the video chapters.

Video chapters are very useful. This new option enables dividing your video in several chapters and thus enables your visitors to reach directly the part of the video they'd like to watch.

This new functionnality is still Beta. It's available for the Pro Portals.

All WM sites have a mobile version for iPhone. It's probably the most advanced iPhone version of all the CMS available on the market.
It exists another technology that permits consulting content from the iPhone, using mobile applications, also known as Apps.

What are the advantages?

They are faster because they don't need a browser to be read. They operate greatly the offline mode, that is to say when there's not available network. In that case you can still reach the content of the last update.

How is distributed this application?

You can download an Apps (mobile application) via iTunes from your computer and then synchonize your iPhone, or you can directly download it from your iPhone on the AppStore.

As part of our collaboration with Marianne2 (a french newspaper), we've created with the DuoApps Corporate an iPhone Apps for Marianne2.
To be exhaustive, we took in charge the server part and DuoApps the apps mobile client part.

Here's the link to the Marianne2.fr Application. It has been downloaded more than 10 000 times in 3 days!

We're working with DuoApps on the semi-industrialization of iPhone Apps creation. Are you interested?

Having updated the download webservice, we also had a look at the download module.

Remember, that module enables to display on some pages of your site (often the home), the files you propose your visitors to download.

Since we've started the update of all the webservices of WMaker, we're tried to bring to those modules the same types of functionalities and presentation style.

A new page is born at WMaker. It's the Tags page. With this page, you can propose your users another approach of your website browsing. This page can reveal very useful, notably to emphasize the most recent and/or popular content of your website.

The Tags page enables various layouts that I'm going to describe in this post. I think that all of you will find the best way to take advantage of this page.

The settings of the Tags page are to be found in DESIGN > page design > Tags.

The new dowload webservice will very quickly make you forget about the former one: new ergonomy, new settings, and renforced security are included in this evolved version.

Remember the days when you were the very first ones to use RSS. In a few years, this format got to make its way on the web as a new information structure standard. Rss is now well established.

WMaker proposes now 2 new tools that will permit enjoying the maximum the contents available in RSS formats.

RSS import enables to create articles in your site directly from a content published in another site and diffused in rss. Then why not exploit this content with the WMaker tools? Newsletter, PDF, Layout, etc...?

RSS export is the inverse operation, it enables publish automatically your content through other content management platforms.

The RSS  import and export are to be found from NETWORK > RSS import/export. Those 2 new tools are available for pro portal offer users.

You might already know what the duplicate content is. It's the fact to reach a same web page from 2 different urls.

The duplicate content can be quite harmful to the SEO. Indeed, note that search engines, to compute the popularity rank of a page, take into account the number of external links that point to the page.
Thus, on your website, if a content can be reached from various urls, the popularity determined by the search engines will be weaken.

To the contrary, if the content of your page is accessible from one and only URL, then the popularity of the page is improved.

Nevertheless, it's sometimes necessary to give several urls to the page. For an exemple, within a marketing campain, a solution can be to add tacking settings in a page URL in order to obtain visibility on the firm action. Those parameters are often added to the URLS of the page you want the internet users targeted by the campaign to reach. That is a duplicate content problem :(

To solve that problem, Google, Yahoo! and MSN agreeded on a new tag, the LINK rel="canonical" tag.

The principle of the canonical tag is simple. It permits to specify what is the canonical url of a page. Is to understand the URL of reference or the URL to consider in the search engine index.

In order to improve your referencing, we've worked on the content of the TITLE and META description tags of your website pages.

The content of the TITLE and META description tags participates to the computation of your page relevance. The META Keywords tag counts too but to a lesser extend.

Thus it is really important to fill in those tags with the key word with which you want to be well ranked by the search engines. But concretely, how to do so?

The principle is: from the content you'll use to fill in your site (articles, videos, events, classifieds, shop products, etc...) WMaker will dynamically fill in your TITLE and META description tags, so that the content of those tags will be close to the site content.

There are a lot of parameters that take part in the referencing improvement. To simplify it as much as possible, it can be said that it's necessary to operate on 2 levels: on an editorial level (that's your job as a webmaster), and on an technical level (that's our job as your favorite CMS provider).

In our team, some persons always make sure that the application optimizes the technical aspects that enable a good referencing in searching engines, google in particular.

We're going to put online some novelties so you can go even further in the optimization of your referencing.
Starting with the url rewriting today!

Very often, you need to use some identical modules in the home and in the templates. That's even more true for the browsing modules. They're not often modified but when they need to be, it can lead to a lot of tedious operations.

For the modules that are strictly the same has the home, it will be now possible to apply a parent-child link.

The parent-child link enables associating a home module with his clone in the template. Then any change in the parent module (the home one) will immediately be effective on the child module (the one of the template).

The dependance parent-child will be identifiable in the design menu by:
- a gold link for the parent module
- a silver link and a blue background for the child module