Any Questions?

Q. What is a Web Content Management System (Web CMS)?
A. Web Content Management Systems allow you to create and maintain the structure and content of your website without needing any knowledge of the web, programming languages or specialist software packages. In fact if you know how to use popular word processing applications you will find MetaCanvas extremely easy to use.

Q. What is MetaCanvas™ in plain language, and why is it the best solution for small and medium sized businesses ?
A. MetaCanvas™ Small Business Solution.

The objective of MetaCanvas™ is to help SMEs gain competitiveness by providing them access to ebusiness tools often only available to larger companies as well as providing websites that have been designed [using CSSP] to be compliant to most international Internet guidelines provided by organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org). As all companies want to make sure that their website will be found on the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! , the page structures and designs which MetaCanvas websites use have been created to ensure that they comply with requirements for good placement imposed by the major search engines.

Key benefits

MetaCanvas™ comprises of a selection of web services put together to offer Small to Medium sized Companies an affordable website with powerful, professional and flexible ebusiness tools. These include:

- A corporate website with content management
- Managed hosting of the website
- Managed hosting of emails
- Newsletters that can be created in Metacanvas


In fact to have a working MetaCanvas website,basically all you need is the following:

-Decide which of the themed templates best fits your company's business interests
-Choose a colour scheme to use for the website
-Have a picture of your company's logo available for use on the website
-Have purchased a URL [website address] that you want to use

Q. How can Metacanvas™ help my business?
A. MetaCanvas™ can help your business by providing you with a tool that enables you to promote and update your business on the internet 24/7, thus having a high quality site that will attract and generate business. It’s well acknowledged that more and more people use the internet as their first point of supplier and product research, so having a comprehensive and constantly up to date site is paramount in today’s business world. Using MetaCanvas™ makes this a simple reality.

To help SME's take full advantage of the recent increase in access to new markets through the expansion of Europe along with greater adoption of the Internet in many lower technology countries, we have developed MetaCanvas™ Small Business Solution.

The objective of MetaCanvas™ SBS is to help SMEs gain competitiveness by providing them access to ebusiness tools often only available to larger companies as well as providing websites that have been designed [using CSSP] to be compliant to most international Internet guidelines provided by organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org). As all companies want to make sure that their website will be found on the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! , the page structures and designs which MetaCanvas websites use have been created to ensure that they comply with requirements for good placement imposed by the major search engines.

Q. Can an existing site be powered by MetaCanvas™ ?
A. Yes in the vast majority of cases. Provide us with your website address and an email address we will send you a report detailing to what extent your website is suitable for conversion to MetaCanvas. Almost any website can be converted to MetaCanvas.

Q. Can MetaCanvas be customized to our company's requirements ?
A. Yes MetaCanvas™ can be fully customized to meet your needs. We have a large range of customers, with a broad range of requirements who all benefit from using MetaCanvas. Just let us know what exactly it is you want to do, and we’re confident we can provide illustrative examples of how our clients are using the system in a similar manner.

Q. Does Metacanvas work with Flash websites?
A. Yes and No.

Metacanvas can publish to Flash websites (see the scenarios section on www.prendo.com) as an example.

Metacanvas can even have a Flash homepage image component that allows you to add many different pictures that will change automatically (see www.cosmoserve.com)

However if you want Metacanvas to create the navigation menu of your website automatially, then you will need to have an HTML menu.

Q. How much does a website cost?
A. Click on this link for the pricing

Q. I can get a website on a large portal and its really cheap, why pay more for a MetaCanvas website?
A. If you want a top rate professionally designed site with powerful functionality and databases that you can manage yourself you will choose MetaCanvas™. If you want a simple and highly restrictive website that looks like 1000 others then we really can’t help. However if your key constraint is your budget, then why not have a look at our industry themed templates, which provide a professionally designed layout which you can buy off the peg.

Q. I have heard that Database driven sites are slower and don't show up on search-engines.
A. This might be true for some badly developed products, but it’s definitely not the case with MetaCanvas™.

MetaCanvas™ sites generate real URL's making the sites search-engine friendly. Our sites also use a powerful cocktail of content compression and caching ensuring speedy response. A further advantage is that all of the content is automatically fully searchable and because its database driven as soon as you change content on a site, it can be found instantly on a search query. CMS using static files would have to have a search script re-processed every time the content changed.

Q. I would like MetaCanvas for my website, what do I do next?
A. Contact us and we will guide you through the procedure, the process is simple.

Q. If I decide to stop using Metacanvas, will it impact my web site?
A. No, if you decide to stop using MetaCanvas your site will be not affected apart for your ability to update the content, your website will be delivered to you on a CDROM and you will be able to host your site from anywhere else.

Q. What design can i have for my Metacanvas website?
A. You have three options.

1. Choose the basic setup and you'll get the same design style as our demo site. We will change the colours and homepage pictures to your preference and add your logo for you.

2. Ask us to copy the design of your existing website.

3. For a custom design contact Netymology (www.netymology.com) if you are in Europe or Dig Business Design (www.digbusiness.com) if you are in the USA.

Q. What do I need to be able use Metacanvas™ to manage my website?
A. Just an internet connection and a computer, as you don't need to install or download any programs to use MetaCanvas. Once your website has been created with MetaCanvas all you need to use it is the web browser Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.

Q. What is the difference between MetaCanvas and web design packages such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage?
A. MetaCanvas™ is not a web design package, although you can edit the design of the site through the new CSS editor. To use packages such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage you need to know how to design and create a website in HTML and everything else that goes with it. MetaCanvas is an application that allows you to manage the content after an accredited web developer has created the design and put it on to MetaCanvas™. Having said that, if you have clear ideas about the design of your presence, we will of course be delighted to discuss this with you and use your ideas during the construction process.

Q. What training do I need to use it? (Specific skills like html, java, IT knowledge, etc.)
A. No special skills are required to use MetaCanvas™ , the system has been developed to allow anybody to use it. Just a basic grasp of word processing software will be enough to get you started, and the system provides comprehensive help for the more detailed functionality. As a new customer you benefit of 1 hour training and free support for the first month.

Q. What's so special about MetaCanvas?
A. We have listed a couple of features that really make MetaCanvas™ stand out from the crowd, however judge for yourself by trying the demo. Contact us.



a]MetaCanvas is a designers dream, a website powered by MetaCanvas™ can look just as good and just as original as a site without content management facilities whilst still retaining the full functionality of a CMS. This is due to its powerful and flexible templating features, as well as our unique new Stylesheet editor which combine to offer total flexibility within an open standard compliant framework.



b] MetaCanvas™ has a very user friendly interface making it easy and intuitive to use. There is virtually no learning curve.



c] MetaCanvas™ is fully database driven, no requirement for ftp, yet still produces sites that will be found by search-engines due to its clever real URL's.



d] MetaCanvas™ has a unique feature called components which provide developers with a large amount of flexibility.



e] MetaCanvas™ features Instant e-Commerce which means you can start selling your products and services online, from the moment we launch your site.



Each MetaCanvas™ site comes pre-loaded with a number of databases such as NewsRoom, Careers, Catalogue etc.



f] MetaCanvas™ can generate your website's navigation [menu] on-the-fly as you create the sections of the website.



g] MetaCanvas™ is completely Multi-language. You can publish content in many different character sets, have multi-language navigation, and also MetaCanvas itself comes in a number of languages.

Q. Who will host my MetaCanvas website?
A. Websites have to be hosted on our own servers. Our hosting solutions are very reasonably priced and our service is second to none.

Q. Will I have to install Metacanvas™ updates ?
A. No, as MetaCanvas™ is a hosted application and we take care of all of that. The updates are done seamlessly, thus all customers using MetaCanvas™ will benefit automatically from all future upgrades.