Website-Manager supports three project formats. This is how the data is stored in your project. Depending on your needs, you can use the format that best suites you.

For example, a small SEO firm would typically use the file-based format because it's easy to manage and can be scheduled. While a larger company, managing their own sites in-house, may choose the Server-based format because they can locate the data on an existing server and share that data with persons in the company.

File-based

All project data is stored in one file. This is similar to the way Microsoft Access stores its data. The file can be treated as any other file and is schedulable by Website-Manager.

File-based projects are in SQLite 2.8 format. More information on SQLite can be found at http://sqlite.org/. An ODBC driver for SQLite can be found at http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/, which could possibly be used to access file-based project data from another program that support the use of ODBC like MS Access or MS Word.

NOTE No guarantee is given that any ODBC drive will work with any file-based project. As such, use of an ODBC driver to access project data is not supported and is at your own risk.

Server-based

Each project is stored in its own SQL database and can be located on the same computer or across a network. This format has the advantage of off-loading some of the processing to the server, but suffers on WAN and LAN connections due to the transmission of data.

Currently Website-Manager supports MySQL. More information on MySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.com/.

Memory-based

All project data is stored in memory and is therefore temporary. This project format is very fast and allows you to use aspects of the software without the overhead of creating a file- or SQL-based project. All data is lost when the project is closed or the program is exited.

 

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