Your brain doesn’t use folders, and neither does Flowli. Instead, Flowli connects texts, images, users, and media by their actual meaning. The result is a much more powerful, efficient, and intuitive publishing process.
Unlike most CMS that generate sets of rigid pages, Flowli has been built from ground up to compile dynamic, multi-source & multi-format ‘mash-ups’ of content. Presentation can even adapt on the fly to each visitor’s preferences and behaviour.
Because Flowli strictly separates content from its presentation, you can simultaneously publish to desktop, tablet, mobile, or even PDF. And using standard CSS, you have complete control over the look and feel of your content.
Flowli’s publishing interface is probably the best you’ve ever used. For example, to semantically link an image to a text, just search for it on the left and drag it into the semantic column on the far right. It’s so easy, you’ve got to try it to believe it!
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Flowli offers a non-hierarchical, semantic workflow that doesn't use any pages or folders. Why?
Traditional websites simply show the same 'dumb' pages to all visitors. Flowli, on the other hand, can assemble personalised (and thus much more engaging) content streams on the fly, based on for each visitor's initial search term, browsing history, or site preferences.
Here's an example of a complete workflow:
Because all content in Flowli's Library is semantically connected, it's quick and easy to create engaging content streams. But how to add this semantic information in the first place?
We've partnered with Strider DI, who provide Flowli with the linguistic intelligence to automatically tag, summarise and, after some training, even categorise any text.
No more manual tagging, no more deciding 'where should this text go?' – simply add your content and let Flowli do the rest.
Offering rich and relevant context near your main content has many benefits: visitors can explore a topic further, consume related media, and are likely to generate more page views.
But offering more shouldn't mean spending more of your time – with Flowli, it's easy to automatically pull in all kinds of related information.
And Flowli goes beyond the 'Related articles' section often seen on online news sites. Here are some examples:
You can also combine criteria, of course:
The beauty of Flowli's publishing approach is that changing just one word in a template instantly creates completely different content streams!
Ideally, a website should present visitors what they are looking for, without them having to search for it (see Go with the flow).
However, when visitors do perform a search, Flowli makes sure this produces relevant and useful results.
Firstly, rather than only returning exact matches of a search term, results also include content with similar meaning. Secondly, results should be grouped into content types, eg. texts, files, media, or users.
For example, a search for 'Germany' on a news site would return:
With Flowli, you always have complete control over the design and structure of your content, which is controlled by templates and standard CSS.
Templates control what is shown, and in what order (eg. 'Show 10 articles about World News; show their titles, author, and the first 2 lines of body text; show one related image.'). Templates use their own simple coding language and are rendered to produce your site's HTML.
CSS controls the visual appearance of content (eg. layout, type size, colours, etc.).
Flowli strictly separates content from its presentation, so you can create different Templates for different devices. Fast-loading mobile version? Touch-optimised tablet version? No problem! Just tweak a few lines of the Template script, CSS or HTML.
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