Features

Content

Pages – Allows administrators to update, add, and remove pages from the website. Pages include a title, HTML content area, access level, and many other options.

Snippets – Snippets allow for blocks of HTML to be managed by administrators. Snippets are typically placed by the developers in site layouts, emails, or pages with limited control over. This allows the developers to give you access to make limited changes to pages you normally would not have access to with typical content management systems.

Articles

Articles – Articles are typically used to form a news section, or a blog. Articles contain a title, date, image, HTML content area, tags, and a category.

Categories – Article categories allow for articles to be categorized together. Settings are available to each category to set whether or not user added comments should be available for the articles. This is what is used to separate blog articles from news.

Publications

Publications are a place for you to share files with your users. Common uses are news releases, and sharing files, images, and documents. Publications are categorized; include a title, date, short description, and a file upload. If you do not have a file, the system will allow you to create an HTML document online with our editor.

Photo Galleries

The photo gallery plugin allows you to quickly create a photo gallery on your website. Each gallery includes a title, HTML description, and allows upload for many images. Each image can be assigned a caption to display.

Events

Share upcoming event information with your users. Events include a title, image, and HTML content area. A scheduling system allows you to set multiple dates and times that the event occurs to allow multiday events.

Forms

The forms plugin allows developers to create basic forms for your website quickly with some basic configuration files. Typically form results are emailed to yourself, and also stored on your website. All form entries can be searched and viewed at any time on the website. This plugin comes with a basic contact form.

Navigation

The navigation plugin allows you to make changes to menus, and links that are on your website.  Support for dropdown and fly-out menus.

Search Engine Optimization

Meta tags – Meta tags are hidden information that is read by search engines. You can make changes to the meta tags site wide, as well as per page to help tell search engines what your site is about.

Site Map – A sitemap is dynamically built of all your pages on your website. This ensures that the search engines can get to, and index all your pages. A Google sitemap file is also provided to help Google find its way.

Search engine friendly addresses – Throughout all plugins, search engine friendly addresses are used. What this does is places your title into the address bar. These descriptive addresses will help your relevancy of searched terms.

Security

Users – Manage user account information including usernames and passwords which are able to access your website.

Groups – Manage access levels of groups. Standard installs include three groups – Administrators, members, and anonymous.

Banners

Banners allow you to run basic advertising and tracking on your website. Banner sections can be defined and added to your layout. Banners include a title, file upload (images and flash supported), and advertisement address. Banners are selected and displayed randomly. Views and clicks are tracked and recorded for administrators to view.

Statistics

This plugin allows you to easily add Google Analytics to your website. This will allow you to view advanced statistics of who is visiting your website, and what they are viewing.

Search

An advanced search is provided to search your entire site. This will help users find any articles, pages, products, they are looking for quickly.

Search filters are also applied to admin pages to help administrators find what they are looking to make changes quickly and efficiently as well.

HTML Editor (WYSIYWG)

An online HTML editor, commonly called a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get), is provided to manage the HTML areas on your website. This will allow you to easily modify your web pages like it was a Word document. Tools are provided to style text, change paragraph formatting, insert tables, images, flash, media, links, etc.

Products (Ecommerce)

Products – Manage products listed on your site. Products include a SKU, name, main image, price, category, manufacturer, and html description. Additional secondary photos can be uploaded to form a gallery for the product. Product sales can be created with scheduled start and end dates. Inventory levels are also optionally tracked.

Orders – View orders and manage statuses of orders placed on your website.

Coupons – Allows for coupons to be managed. Coupons include title, code, scheduled start and end date, as well as a percent or monetary value awarded off the order.

Tax & Shipping Rules – Tools are provided to set specific flat rate shipping and tax rules based off of order location.

Basic management tools for product categories, product manufacturers, and order statuses also provided.