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Community Advertising Services (CAS) is a web-based, server-centric framework that enables publishers to provide online self-service advertising services to the community. Think of CAS as a bookshelf that can contain many different books. Our "library" of CAS products includes:

Community Display ad Services™ (CDS) - online ad inquiry and production management

Community Classified Services™ (CCS) - online classified order entry

Community Classified Search Services™ (CCSS) - online classified search

EditionAdBoss™ (EditionAdBoss) - online view of the status of an edition during production

CAS isn't the services themselves but the e-commerce framework (the "bookshelf" above) into which the services become components. It provides a number of common functions necessary for web-based applications.

• The CAS menu system
• Security and user maintenance
• Control of style sheets, web page layouts and design
• Control and management of page content
• Web session management
• A portal via external web access to several SCS applications

We sometimes refer to these functions as "plumbing."

CAS makes it possible for publishers to control the web-based presentation of their services and to maintain aspects like single login access, security, navigation and integration, even as individual modules are developed and enhanced in the future.

Within the CAS framework, advertising modules can be presented with the same look and feel as the rest of the publication's web site. Each newspaper can customize the appearance, packaging, and display information for each individual CAS module. These services can support whatever media (print, web, etc.) the publisher wishes to offer.

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