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Web page presentation is one of the most often used Internet services.
The Internet is becoming the wired business resource, mostly due to
available possibilities, which are growing and developing dynamically.
While in the past a simple presentation was enough for the company,
nowadays customers and sales partners are expecting much more. They
desire a web application containing current, complete and accurate
information. Internet presentation is becoming a part of daily company
life.

\section{What is \Metafox{}?}

The \Metafox{} application falls into the category of press, editorial
or publication systems for content management, well-known also as the
\textit{Content~Management~Systems~(CMS)}. \Metafox{} enables users to
easily update their web page while serving their development and
management objectives. With the Metafox system you will have your web
content always under your control.

\section{For whom is the \Metafox{} intended?}

\Metafox{} is dedicated to everyone who has an interest in fast and
effective Internet website content updates. Convenient usage includes
corporate presentations, personal homepages and extensive community
portals with hundreds or thousands users.

\section{Facilities and features}

Strict content separation from its graphical design enables users with
minimal knowledge of HTML markup to perform content alteration.  People
without Internet technologies and programming experience can take care
of the website content. Presentations built with \Metafox{} are updated
using a standard web browser.

In addition to the basic content management facilities, \Metafox{} has some
other unique features. For example, the possibility of multiple design
layouts on one site, a sophisticated access permissions system in the
administration interface, multi-language support with content-dependent
language switching, the ability to integrate arbitrary Internet or
Intranet applications directly into the \Metafox{} system, and many
others.

\section{References}

Extract of the most interesting websites created with the \Metafox{}
system:

\begin{itemize}
	\item Platon SDG -- \texttt{http://platon.sk/}\\
		open source software development portal
	\item Nextra -- \texttt{http://www.nextra.sk/}\\
		internet access and voice service provider 
	\item Prave Spektrum -- \texttt{http://www.prave-spektrum.sk/}\\
		political and social e-zin
	\item Konzervativizmus -- \texttt{http://www.konzervativizmus.sk/}\\
		page for Conservative institute of M. R. Stefanik
	\item Amnezia -- \texttt{http://www.amnezia.sk/}\\
		red online magazine
\end{itemize}

\section{Technologies}

Worldwide the most used Apache webserver represents the essential runtime
environment for~the~\Metafox{} system. Usage of PHP scripting language
and relational MySQL database provides excellent
speed, flexibility and high-availability of~the~solution. All
applied technologies belong to the open source software category, which is
available with source codes and free of charge.

\section{History}

\Metafox{} project development began in the year 2001. Since that time
system went over several phases, while at the end of 2003 it reached the
state, where it can satisfy demanding enterprise requirements.
\Metafox{} development is ongoing, and the system is constantly enriched
with new capabilities and features.

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