| If you're one of the many web site owners limited in | | | | program. Then using the existing Crystal Xcelsius |
| your ability to communicate, interact, and deliver | | | | components (buttons, input boxes, naming tabs, sliders, |
| targeted content to your visitors, this article is written | | | | dials, and more) you drag and drop the appropriate |
| for you. Traditionally dynamic content has always been | | | | component to connect to your spreadsheets data. |
| the storing of data in a MySQL or MSSQL database | | | | Connecting the component is done through a |
| and then delivering it via a programming code like PHP | | | | point-and-click interface and recognizes your formulas |
| or ASP. This method is efficient but has two major | | | | and calculations automatically by selection. |
| flaws. 1) In order to use this technology you must know | | | | After you have imported your Excel Spreadsheet, and |
| this technology. 2) You have to pay someone who | | | | created your Dynamic Document in Crystal Xcelsius, it |
| knows it to do the work for you. Now there is a way | | | | is now time to export it to web ready Macromedia |
| that everyone can deliver dynamic content and even | | | | Flash. This is also done automatically with the click of |
| interactive applications like custom calculators, reports, | | | | one button in Crystal Xcelsius. Now you have a Flash |
| statistics, and more. | | | | Dynamic Document ready to post on your web site or |
| Crystal Xcelsius is designed to be a Business | | | | if you have Crystal Xcelsius Professional you can |
| Intelligence solution for designing interactive visual | | | | export to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) |
| analytics, but it can also be used to develop dynamic | | | | and post to the Web, send via Email or file transfer. |
| web based content without programming or database | | | | Your visitors will be able to interact and change the |
| experience. Working from two of the most common | | | | results just like the traditional database and server |
| technologies, Macromedia Flash and Microsoft Excel, | | | | code, but with a lot less hassle, cost and technical |
| Crystal Xcelsius combines the two in an easy to use | | | | knowledge on your behalf. |
| drag and drop environment. How it works is simple to | | | | This new way of creating dynamic content is amazing |
| explain but very sophisticated in what it does. | | | | in the fact that everyone can do it. Small businesses |
| Using an Excel spreadsheet as your "database" you | | | | web sites and personal web sites have been hard |
| can input all of the information or data you want to be | | | | pressed to compete with more functional and |
| available to your visitors. Then you create any | | | | aggressive dynamic corporate sites but the rules online |
| calculations based on that content or data. Basically | | | | are changing. Using this new technology you will start |
| you use Excel the exact same way you always have. | | | | to see more interactivity and conversions, which |
| Once your spreadsheet is ready, you can modify it | | | | means a greater ROI for you. |
| later if needed, you import it into the Crystal Xcelsius | | | | |