Even more so than the prior version of The Inventor's Desktop, the new version of the IDT, powered by the most popular CMS program in the world, Joomla!, provides a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content of all kinds to the IDT's inventing community. To support the changing nature of the Internet and emerging Web technologies, the IDT, through it's CMS platform, Joomla!, required substantial restructuring of its core functionality.

With the new desktop, you'll notice:

• Substantially improved usability, manageability, and scalability far beyond the original site;

• Expanded accessibility to support internationalization, double-byte characters and right-to-left support for Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew languages among others;

• Extended integration of external applications through Web services and remote authentication;

• Enhanced content delivery, template and presentation capabilities to support accessibility standards and content delivery to any destination;

• A more sustainable and flexible framework for the addition of new components and functions.