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FlexWindow Server is a program that receives e-mail and publishes content on a web site. It works with "flexwindows" - content containers that are placed on a web page. With flexwindows in place on a web page, that web page can be updated by sending an e-mail. An update begins with creating a new e-mail, and putting in the desired content. The e-mail is then send to a special e-mail address. The content of the e-mail is placed into a flexwindow. The FlexWindow Server software translates the sent e-mail into web-ready content, and transfers the content to the right web page. To get a feel for the overall process, try an update in the online version of FlexWindow, at http://www.flexwindow.com/demo.html. The user experience will be the same here as when using FlexWindow Server. How doesFlexWindow Server work? To update content to a web site using FlexWindow Server, you need the following elements: - a web site; - an e-mail address where content updates can be sent to (a POP-box); - FlexWindow Server installed on your server. In short, the process works as follows. 1. An e-mail is composed with content that needs to be published 2. The e-mail is sent to an e-mail address (i.e. flexwindow@company.com) 3. FlexWindow Server reads the e-mail from the POP-box (flexwindow@company.com) 4. FlexWindow Server translates the e-mail content to web content (HTML) 5. FlexWindow Server determines the web page where the content should go 5. FlexWindow Server copies the content to the web site server (file copy or FTP) How do you update a flexwindow? FlexWindow Server is the back-end part of the system. The user interacts with this by sending an e-mail. So, to do an update to a particular flexwindow on a particular site, you prepare an e-mail with the content you want to send. You then have to know the name of the flexwindow (which is set in FlexWindow Server and the web page), and its password (so only you can update the page). What you do is use the subject line of the e-mail to indicate to which flexwindow FlexWindow Server should transport the mail content. For example, if your window is named "news" and its password is "secret", your subject line would be: "news,secret". Sending an email like this would have the current content of the flexwindow replaced by the content you send in this email. You can also, instead of replacing content, add to the content of a particular flexwindow. This content can be added at the top or at the bottom of the flexwindow. Using the previous example, to add to the top of flexwindow "news", you would use the subject line: "addtop:news,secret". To add to the bottom, use "addbottom:news,secret". |
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