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If you are familiar with a word processor, our advanced CMS component allows you to update your Web site content - news, press releases, event announcements, articles, forums, polls, and all other content. (If it’s a word or picture, it's content!)
The CMS includes extras not found in most other products - search, "printer-friendly" and "email a friend" functionality for your site, just to name a few. Create, edit and update your news, press releases, event announcements and all other site content with absolutely no technical expertise required.
Continue reading to learn about our advanced CMS capabilities, or learn more about our simplified CMS.
Advanced CMS capabilities can include:
Workflow with Approval Cycle
Typically, medium or large Web sites require users with different roles to create, update and approve content before publishing. The CMS approval workflow allows content authors with varying roles to submit content for review by content editors or administrators before going 'live' on a Web site. This ensures proper control over the content that goes online, especially when there are many writers, reporters or contributors submitting articles, reports and information to the site.
Dynamic Content and Web Content Creation
The CMS allows for easy creation and management of content through Web browsers,
without programming. The CMS is a template-driven application that allows for effortless
updating of Web content. Content stored in a centralized database can easily be manipulated,
independent of the Web site templates, to suit any old or new requirements without any scripting or programming.
Rich-Text Content Editor
Most business content on Web sites are created, edited and updated by non-programmers and
usually form the biggest user base in a content-intensive Web site. To enable these users to carry out their roles of creating content without any HTML or scripting, the CMS has a built-in Web-based rich-text editor similar to that of a normal word processor. Editing tools like this enable content creators to make use of a variety of familiar functions such as manipulation of text styles, formatting, table controls and image controls, with little or no training at all.
Multi-Level Distributed Security Access
In order to create, aggregate and deliver content efficiently, a content-driven Web site should never be managed by an individual. The number of users involved in content development and management are anywhere from 2 to more than 100 users. With a content management system that caters to so many users, it is necessary to manage these users, defining what a user can and cannot do within the system through user security access levels or user roles.
In the CMS, user security access levels are defined and set according to groups. Users belonging to a specific group will be able to perform the functions defined for that group. To allow greater control and flexibility, the CMS user access privileges can be set on per user basis, which may override the group settings.
Centralized Information Repository
The CMS is a database-driven application that utilizes a centralized information repository to store and manage all data related to the application. This attribute makes scalability effortless and limited only by the system's hardware capabilities.
Banner Ads Management
The CMS banner advertisement management system provides businesses with the option to cross-sell when the need arises. The advertisement management system provides reports on banner impressions and click-throughs. Each advertisement in the system can be set to appear in specific sections of the Web site for targeted marketing.
The system can also be configured to post internal company advertisements or accept advertisements from third-party external banner advertisement engines.
Instant Polling
Polls and votes are great ways for businesses to get interactive feedback from their Web site. The built-in polling application is easy to use whenever the need arises. A poll can be associated with any section of the Web site to gather users' opinions in relation to what they are viewing at that moment. Results are generated automatically in the form of a chart.
Discussion Forums
Customer feedbacks and interactions are essential to businesses with a Web site. One of the most interactive form of feedback is a discussion forum where clients and businesses can interact, whether in a client support manner or a new product feature discussion.
The CMS enables businesses to immediately create discussion forums, and if they prefer, associate or position the forums to Web content. Forums can be public or private which requires user registration. Other features include allowing forums participants to subscribe to forum postings, or appointing a moderator to manage postings.
Events Directory
Businesses spend millions of dollars in organizing product launches, press conferences, participating in exhibitions, community gatherings, organizing seminars or training, etc. These events most often utilize and rely on the corporate publicity machine, and one of the great ways of publicizing events is through a Web site.
The CMS has a built-in event listing directory that enables businesses to publicize their corporate events in a searchable and organized manner. Events are submitted, reviewed and approved before publishing on the Web site.
Dynamic Search
Businesses with Web sites need to make sure that not only do contents published on their Web site be organized, related, formatted or managed, but that they be searchable and retrievable as and when needed. The CMS's built-in search engine allows full site search to be carried out. The Web site contents are automatically indexed periodically according to the schedule set by the Web site administrator.
Web Site User Management
The CMS provides an option for businesses to manage their online users or visitors to their Web sites. Depending on their Web sites' objectives, businesses can choose to require Web users to register before viewing the contents. When users register online, their personal information are captured and stored in the database, which can later be used by these companies for profiling or implementing some form of business intelligence.
Content Subscriptions
With so much effort and money spent on getting relevant users to their Web sites, businesses are naturally concerned about retaining these valuable users. However, these discerning users have millions of Web sites to choose from. What can these businesses do to remind and attract these users to come back to their Web sites? One of the ways is to enable these users to subscribe to the Web site contents.
With the CMS, businesses can seamlessly allow their Web site visitors to subscribe to content on their site. These users who subscribe will be able to receive e-mail notifications summarizing the latest news updates, and if they want more information, they will just have to click on a link from the email to take them to the site.
Web Page Forwarding
With the CMS, businesses will be able to enable or disable Web page forwarding of their Web site content. It is an indirect way of promoting their site via visitors who forward interesting content for perusal to colleagues or friends.
Individual Web Page Comment
Another invaluable method for business Web sites to get specific feedbacks in relation to their content is to enable readers to immediately post their views, comments or opinions. This CMS feature can be enabled or disabled as and when needed.
Printer-Friendly Version
Businesses will have a choice of enabling or disabling the printer-friendly version feature of the CMS, which will automatically generate a non-graphic intensive version of an article for readers, making printing from the Web sites simple.
Multi-Language Encoding
The CMS supports up to 36 language encodings. For multi-lingual Web sites, content can be published in any one or more languages.
Content Archiving
Businesses with content-driven Web sites have, in one way or another, faced the problem of archiving outdated contents. The CMS enables these businesses to choose between automatic and manual archiving. Content can be set to expire and be placed in a searchable archive database serving as a knowledge base.
Multi-Date And Time Format
In the CMS, multiple date and time formats are supported and definable. This allows the businesses to define the preferred date and time format that suit the locale.
Custom Meta Tags
Very often, after a Web site is launched, one of the first considerations is to list the site at the ubiquitous search engines. And one of the key information that search engines look at are the meta headers that provide Web site keywords information and site descriptions. The CMS allows businesses to set these meta information throughout their Web sites seamlessly.
Full Site Administration
The key to a good content management system is its ability to support content development, whenever and wherever. Businesses realize that they should be able to make changes to their Web site contents at anytime and from anywhere. The businesses' entire Web site running on the CMS can be managed via the administration site with just a Web browser and an Internet access.
Users Personalization
Businesses with content-intensive Web sites often allow visitors to personalize their own Web page on the sites to access relevant personalized contents such as their favorite discussion forums, news and articles. These personalization features are often used by businesses to better understand their visitors' preferences, tastes and interests.
The CMS's personalization feature allows users to create their personal "myPage" where they will be able to personalize the content according to their preferences.
Syndication
There are many business reasons to want to enable Web site contents for syndication. Depending on the nature of the business, syndication of content is valuable as a marketing tool to promote awareness of Web sites. Alternatively, syndication can be used by the parent company as a tool to syndicate out company information, latest news or product launches to their subsidiaries, partners, resellers or agents who have their own corporate Web sites.
The CMS enables companies to select content in their sites by creating syndication profiles which define the contents that can be syndicated by others.
File Management
Often transparent to Web users, in a content management system, there is a need for the management of site files such as images files, multimedia documents, template and system files, etc. The CMS's File Manager allows admin users to upload, download, compress and decompress files in the Web site.
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