New Features

Email newsletters

The email newsletter is a new ilps-news.com site feature. The aim of the newsletter is to allow visitors to indicate topics of interest. The server will then notify them via email with a short targetted summary of any new documents that match those interests. This brings enormous benefits, as there is no longer any need to rely on visitors returning just to look for new content, they get everything they need delivered to their inbox automatically first thing in the morning.

Audiences

At the heart of the system is the audience categorisation of documents, this has two stages. First, the site administrator creates a series of audience categories (areas of concern, types of document) for the entire site. For instance, the ilps-news.com site has categories such as statements, publications, concern no 1. to 18. featured authors. writers, designers, programmers, press and specifiers. Secondly, each time a document is created, the author can indicate which (if any) audiences the document is aimed towards. This is achieved with a simple check-list of boxes that can easily be amended later. This powerful metadata categorisation system is available allowing the customisation of documents on a topic-by-topic basis.

Personalisation

The ilps-news.com site now supports an user framework that allows visitors to sign-up for an account on an MKDoc server. Signing-up uses an email-based confirmation system to prevent abuse, and opens access to a customisable user experience. Visitors can indicate which languages they understand and which topics interest them. The system then uses this information to modify the site presentation to suit individual users. Each visitor can also opt to receive the daily, weekly and/or monthly newsletter summary of all additions to the site that match their interests.

Standards

Just like the rest of ilps-news.com site, the email newsletter meets the highest technical standards; there is no bloated html to fill your inbox, just simple concise flowed-text summaries and hyperlinks to the relevant pages.

Try it out

Currently the ilps-news.com site email newsletter is being used to great effect.