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, pointsize, 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
- Hierachic drill-down administration system to modify pages and stories
- Drilldown 'Navigator' feature 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
The product now supports 'widgets' which are small but intelligent add-ons you can attach to your pages. The range of widgets available currently include :
- User login (for client/protected areas of website)
- Registration
- Order Form
- Enquiry Form
- Email Form
- Ad Banner with clickthru to sponsor site
- Rotating Ad Banner
- Newsfeed
- Scrolling Newsfeed