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Content Management Features
- Lets trusted users maintain content on a website, no HTML required.
- The administration/publishing interface is web browser-based, so it can be accessed from anywhere.
- The site design can be completely customized. We can build your templates from scratch or modify your exsiting design.
- Archiving feature. Gather your older articles into archives to improve performance.
- Format content with no HTML skills using the WYSIWYG editor (requires IE 5.5+ on Windows).
Publish Articles
- Publish articles without any HTML/technical knowledge.
- The system auto-dates new articles, or you can change the date manually.
- Articles can be set as:
- Visible: published to the website immediately when saved.
- Pending: saved to the system, but not published until an editor approves it.
- Hidden: disable an article so it's not visible to the public (use this when you want to pull an article to revise it).
- You can publish different kinds of articles:
- Full Article: summary on category page and then a link to a full article on its own page.
- Summary only: just a summary on the category page.
- Internet URL: summary and then a link to an outside website.
- Uploaded file: summary and then a link to a document (like a PDF, spreadsheet, or Word Document).
- Write articles in plain text, HTML...
- ... or use our WYSIWYG editor to create articles with word processor-like formatting.
- Change the font type, colour and size, bold, italics or underline.
- Justify text right, left or centre.
- Create bulleted or numbered lists.
- Indent or unindent paragraphs.
- Insert horizontal lines, hyperlinks, and images
- *UPDATED! - New cross-browser WYSIWYG editor lets you format content with no HTML skills.
- Supports both Windows & Mac OS X browsers:
- Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.7+, and Netscape 7.1+
- Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows only)
- Specify a unique filename for each article.
- Custom publish and upload folders - specified at the category level.
- Preview the article before publishing it to the website.
- Upload up to 25 images to embed within the article.
Category Management
- Organize your categories into Subcategories.
- Accomodate any depth of subcategories.
- Choose your navigation style from 5 different subcategory formats, and create a unique look by tailoring the HTML templates.
- Publish your articles across entire category branches or restrict them to specified categories.
- Sort the categories into any order you like.
- Hide categories to remove them temporarily from your website. Great for making revisions to the site.
- Search for categories in the administration system to access them quickly.
- Customize the number of articles and headlines displayed for each category.
- Create customized filenames for categories to make more readable URLs (/news.html instead of cat_index_2.html).
- Associate different images with the category.
- Use different templates for each category to further customize the look of your website.
Search Engine
- Quickly search any content published with Article Manager.
- Search for articles in all categories or only specific categories.
- Advanced search allows search by date range and categories.
Webfeed Generator
- Let other websites incorporate your content to extend your reach.
- Syndicating webmasters add the code once to their website and it
will stay current. Whenever your website is updated, all the syndicate
sites are updated at the same time.
- Syndicates can choose to display all your content or only a single category.
- The system produces the code that syndicates embed into their page to create the Webfeed. This only needs to be done once.
User Administration
- Manage users and give them different access levels:
- Admin: complete control over the system.
- Editor: able to approve other people's articles.
- Trusted writer: able to add articles to the website without approval from an editor.
- Writer: articles are tagged as "pending" until approved by an editor.
- Disabled: unable to use any part of the system.
- Constrain writers so they can only add articles to certain categories.
- Give each writer their own username/password so they can log into the system.
- Email notification system improves your workflow. Any user can be
informed when articles are written, published, changed, or removed.
General Options
- Customize administration title bar name.
- Remove internal warnings and confirmations for faster navigation.
- Change defaults of the system for autoformatting.
- Add new article publishing fields (up to 20 spare fields).
- Set restrictions on content that can be uploaded by users (eg: document types, max image sizes, etc).
- Set up how you want articles to sort (ie, by date, or some custom field).
- Customize published locations for documents and images.
- Customize the login images, title bar, footer bar, meta tags
- Create/delete archives and transfer articles back and forth.
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