Content Management Product Features

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Benefits

• Gives you back control of YOUR website !
• Extremely easy to use - little training needed
• Provides instantaneous web publishing - can edit from page being viewed
• Quick to setup and deploy for a new user
• Doesn't require you be a HTML guru to publish your content
• great for departmental use on a corporate Intranet
• no special software needed to publish

Features

Formatting & presentation

Full control over formatting and presentation of all page elements via a fully-featured WYSIWYG ('what-you-see-is-what-you-get') web editor – if you can use a word processor you can use this editor !

Can choose from a list of pre-defined styles to standardise and enforce the look/feel of entire website – these control background colour, margins, fonts, point size, font colour, bullet icons etc.

Can create new styles to incorporate your corporate theme and reuse these for other sites

Generates dynamic table of contents at top of page for easy navigation

Print option which renders 'printer-friendly' version of page

Can use your own logo/banner graphic in page header of each page (optional) ; this can be uploaded from your PC (using File Manager function)

Automatic generation of standard headers on each page

Automatic generation of standard (customisable) footers on each page which incorporates author's name and email address for feedback

'Skins' facility : allows you to setup/choose your own custom page template with your desired graphics, layout, visual presentation

Ability to generate Frequently Asked Question (FAQ)-style topics for support resources

Ability to generate News headline-style topics – news items are displayed automatically in date order - a news age limit can be specified to display only 'current' news items

Ability to create graphical hyperlinks by specifying icon/button graphic to use for story link

Author control over how a particular story will be presented

Author control over the order in which stories are displayed on a built page

Ability to 'embed' a Web page as an object within another scripted page – great for encapsulating a small 'Top News stories' type site into a corner of an existing page !

Printer-friendly pages when pages are printed

Sitemap with a 'you are here' location-identifier

Ability to 'wrap' content from other pages/websites in your website skin

'Email this page to a friend' option which can appear on every page


Navigation

Search tool which provides full content searching of topics across the website

Automatically generates a navigation bar containing main page links

Automatic addition of 'Top' buttons at end of each story (optional)

Can link a story to another Web page – author specifies caption and target story

Can link to other pages or internet sites

Author specified email links for a specific story – this generates an automatic “For further information please contact ...“ type hyperlink (optional)


Site Management

Fully-featured WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor allows you full creative control over both content and presentation of your web pages :

Fonts

Text size

Colour

Text alignment

Bulleted lists

Numbered lists

Images

Hyperlinks

Tables

Ability to simply cut n' paste pre-existing material from Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Built-in security system which requires content author to login in order to change content

Hierarchic drill-down administration system to modify pages and stories

Drilldown 'Navigator' features to quickly find and edit a particular page/story

Intuitive right-click context menus to modify content straight from the page being viewed

'Style Previewer' feature– allows author to preview what a style will look like on website before they change it

File upload facility to allow author to upload graphics, spreadsheets, Word documents, Adobe PDF files or Powerpoint presentations to the website 'File Manager' feature allows you to manage all your uploaded files and information about them

Image previewer as part of File Manager

All site administration done via your web browser ; no special software to buy or install onto your PC is needed in order to maintain site

Support for time-sensitive content – this allows pre-written 'stories' to be suppressed until a specified 'Hold Until' date is reached and after a specified 'Show Until' date is reached

Image management – images can be automatically resized and thumbnails created if desired at upload time

Global website elements – elements such as page footer, disclaimer, terms & conditions can be maintained yourself

Support for separate sections of website which can be owned and maintained by different users (Community Edition)

Security and Access Control Options

Private pages – specific pages can be secured so they require visitor to login before they can view (e.g. Pricelists, customer-only areas)

Role-specific pages – these pages dynamically present different versions of a given page depending on the logged-in users privileges

Support for multiple content authors who may modify website content (Enterprise Edition, Community Edition)

Support for different maintenance roles (Administrator, ContentAuthor, SectionAuthor, StoryAuthor) who can access different administrative functions

Ability to segment website into separate sections which can be maintained independently by different users (Community Edition)

Advanced Options

User login (for client/protected areas of website)

Registration

Order Form

Enquiry Form

Email Form

Ad Banner with click thru to sponsor site

Rotating Ad Banner

Newsfeed

Scrolling Newsfeed