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Pyron launches SiteFin: New program aims to help customers update their Web sites
By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian

So your company has a Web site, but it's such a pain and expense to update, you just don't bother.

Yes, there are software packages out there that will let you do your own updating, but they're pretty complex and require a level of expertise no one in your small company has.

On Friday, a small Missoula company launched a product that just might solve your problems.

It's called SiteFin and it's a product of Pyron Technologies, a 12-year-old Missoula business that specializes in full-service Web and information-technology services.

“The Web has really become the focus of so many companies' business, but maintaining their Web sites has remained expensive and problematic,” said Dave Pyron. “This really is a solution that will put a lot more power in the hands of companies so that they can control their Web sites better.”

One thing that Pyron does is build Web sites for clients. That's fine, of course, but what Pyron has found over the years is that it spends a lot of time updating clients' sites to keep them up-to-date with the most current information.

Obviously, Pyron charges for its time, so that's been a source of revenue. But Pyron eventually came to realize that both the company and its clients could benefit from a product that would let clients handle their own Web site updates.

“We work hard to serve clients, but there are times when it takes us days to get Web updates done,” Pyron said. “That's not good for clients and that's not good for us. What SiteFin does is take away the delay, and it allows nearly anyone with minimal computer skills to do the work.”

Take Pyron programmer John Brownell's 6-year-old son, Quinn. Recently, Brownell was trying to watch a Detroit Lions football game, but his son kept him busy with endless interruptions. To keep the boy busy, Brownell spent about 15 minutes showing him how to use SiteFin to make a Web page.

“By the time the game was over, he had a pretty good page,” Brownell said.

Quinn's page was Halloween-oriented, and had all sorts of spooky graphics, some scary stories he'd written and a video downloaded from YouTube.

All of which was very cool, but not nearly as cool as his dad getting to watch the Lions.

The interface will look familiar to anyone who's spent any time around computers. It allows you to control graphics, images, video and text easily and the results are instantaneous and easy to change if you don't like what you've done.

Making the changes requires no knowledge of programming or HTML code, meaning that Web sites can be updated by ordinary mortals.

“It really offers a robust performance without a lot expertise,” said Pyron's Kevin Leavell.

Companies can also run Intranets - sites visible only within a company - with SiteFin, and it allows them to be updated by anyone the company deems appropriate.

SiteFin is what's called a content management system, and it's hardly the only one. Dave Pyron said many CMS programs are on the market; he just thinks his company's is the easiest, most intuitive to use.

“Most of those require some significant programming capability,” Pyron said. “With SiteFin, it's pretty easy to train anyone.”

Not surprisingly, the ubiquitous Microsoft has a Web site product - SharePoint - that enables Web site updates, but Pyron said it's significantly more difficult to learn and use.

There are also open-source - meaning free - products around, but Pyron believes the ease of Sitefin will win over clients.

“For a small or medium-sized company, this is an efficient solution that doesn't require you to do extraordinary training to use it,” he said.

Reporter Michael Moore can be reached at 523-5252 or by e-mail at mmoore@missoulian.com

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http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/11/06/news/mtregional/zznews07.txt

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Pyron Technologies Announces Launch of

SiteFin Content Management System

Missoula, Montana - October 31, 2007 – Pyron Technologies, Inc. announces the launch of their SiteFin Content Management System on Friday, November 2^nd at its headquarter office in Missoula, Montana. In development since early 2005, the launch marks the company’s first internally-built web product available to businesses and resellers.

The SiteFin Content Management System provides organizations with powerful website tools to manage content, products, images, and any type of media within the website, without involving an outsourced web development company. An enterprise-level user manager module within SiteFin also allows the creation of Intranets, member portals and the assignment of different user access levels to manage various areas of the website.

“Clients have always had a need for content management through their websites,” says Natalie Bender, Manager of Web Services at Pyron Technologies. “When we began to develop these tools for clients to use, we saw great response. Their internal efficiency improved, and control was spread across their organizations.”

SiteFin’s unique front-end live editing style also gives organizations the ability to simply navigate to a page, click an editing button, and make necessary changes viewed as they will appear.

“With other systems, you never know what your changes will look like until you get out of the administration area and back into the website,” says Bender. “With SiteFin, you see exactly how changes will look, and they are posted instantly.” In computer terms, this style is called WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get.

“The WYSIWYG style is unique to this product type,” says John Brownell, Programmer with Pyron Technologies and lead SiteFin developer. “We consciously built the system so that organizations and their internal staff could edit content easily without server, coding or programming knowledge, through a Microsoft Word-like interface and minimal training. Control of the website is immediate once a client takes over.”

SiteFin is built as a modular system enabling a client to start with a basic content management system. Additional functionality is available to add onto the system in the form of modules, including Image Gallery, Events Calendar, Product Catalog, Forum, Blog, and Podcast Ready, to name a few.

In addition, SiteFin is not based on templates, allowing customized designs to be wrapped around it, giving organizations the ability to brand themselves without being constrained by design.

“www.Flymissoula.com is one example of this design customization,” says Bender. “We worked with the client on an original site design around SiteFin, and from there they are able to produce, manage and control the website entirely by themselves. It saves them time and money in not having to involve an outside source.”

SiteFin also provides automatic built-in Search Engine Optimization with every website. Metatags on each page describe the page content to search engines. SiteFin’s unique separation of title, description and keyword fields behind each page within the website allow an organization to manage their own metatags and achieve higher search engine rankings.

A 30-minute demonstration of SiteFin is open to the media on Friday, November 2, 2007, at 9:15 a.m. at Pyron Technologies, 228 West Main Street, Suite C in Missoula. Pyron Technologies, Inc., based in Missoula, Montana, provides network solutions, medical technologies and website development to companies in Montana and throughout the U.S. Learn more at www.pyrontechnologies.com .

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