Web Content Management System

As long as you have a computer with access to the Internet and access to your site through a username and a password you can work with your website from your office or your sofa. That way you can edit your site as quickly as you wish. Work whenever and wherever you prefer.

By using the standard setup in the admin interface you will soon understand and appreciate how the interface is designed and works. You have easy access to content, features, classes and users. Editing and adding content is very easy and logical. No technical experience is needed by day-to-day users.

A content class is simply a definition of an arbitrary data structure. your website comes with a set of predefined, ready-to-use content classes such as "folder", "article", "user account", "image", etc. These content classes are carefully designed to fit the most common generic/everyday tasks of a CMS. In addition, it is possible to create custom content classes using the administration interface. The content classes (both custom and built-in) may be easily modified and/or extended at any time.

With the collaboration functionality you can work together with other people or delegate tasks to others.

The collaboration functionality may also be used for many other processes, such as distributing tasks in a support service, handling of requests from customers, or invitations to meetings/events.

All your partners/employees can add contributions to your website...you choose who does what.

In your website you don't have to make your content fit a certain predefined, one-size-fits-all content model. We will create your own content classes with exactly the attributes you need. This lets you structure your data very well, and makes it easier for you to present the data in various ways when needed.

To present the objects to the user of the web page, you create templates. You would create one template for each content class, or more if objects of this class should be able to present them self in various ways. your website separates Layout, Code, Content and Language. You can redesign or implement a new design or templates without worrying about the content changing. your website is using cascading stylesheets (css) for design like font, sizes and colours.

In your website you can handle and work with all kinds of files and publish them on your website. Pdfs, images, movies and documents are among the files that can be handled.

After you have written or edited an object you can save this and publish it immediately. But perhaps after you published it you want to change it by adding some more text and a picture. You can work on this new version of the object without worrying about the current published version. All changes to data is version controlled and stored. This way you keep track of all changes in an article, product, users etc and always return to this later.

With your website you handle, scale and convert your images for publishing on your your website site. Images can be handled as related objects and can be changed at any time through the admin interface.

The integrated search engine can search and find all your content. You can use full text search and the advanced search engine can also use logical operator such as AND/OR and phrase search.

You have the possibility to limit search based on content type, content attributes, sections and author or time stamps. The search is integrated with access control to return accessible content, which means that you set up the search to only find the content you have permission to see. Your own favourite search engine using the plug-in system may easily replace the integrated search engine.

Your website will support different languages. All text/labels are stored in industry standard XML language files and are easily translated using linguist translation program. All your content may be translated into the language you want. your website has functionality for creating and maintaining several different translations of an article or product etc.

your website also has Unicode support.

With the notification system you can keep updated on news, releases, changes etc. You can easily set up the notification on your site.

Online WYSIWYG editor

Simplified content editing...discover the online editor. Making headers, bold or italic text, tables, links or adding pictures has never been easier. The online editor is a plug-in that when installed will be a part of your admin interface. The program will be available for all users of your your website administration site.

Generate PDF files from all the content on your site automatically. A customizable template system ensures full flexibility of the generated files. Use the role system to restrict access to generated PDF files. PDF documents can also be indexed in your website.

Your website will be designed with performance in mind, both for load and speed.

The access permissions and privileges at your site are specified by roles. A role is a set of access policies that can be assigned to a user or a user group. The role system allows you to specify access by module (content, shop, task, etc.), by function (read, create, edit, remove, etc.), by object owner, by object class, and by site section. This gives the site administrator full freedom to customize who gets access and privileges to every part of the site.

You can set up an RSS import for importing an RSS news feed into your website.

The site can be adjusted to the needs and demands of different customers and users. Some users need much more finesse and modules on their site while others only need some of the modules. It is up to you when it comes to deciding what modules you need to satisfy your readers and users. Your website is built for today and for the future. It can adjust easily to your changes and you can add new modules as soon as you want.

Your CMS website is built to be indexed in the best possible way and is compatible with all search engines on the web.

Your CMS website system can only be a secure as the hosting environment it lives on. It is wise to ensure that PHP, MySQL, Apache, PostgreSQL, IIS are as secure as they can be. We usually provide our own hosting for clients.

The website is build to be as flexible as possible both if you run small or large sites. Different sites may have different ways of optimisation depending on size, number of users, storage capacity, server size and Internet connection speed.

Your website is developed in English, but can easily be translated and adapted to local conditions. Local settings for formatting of currency, date, time and other locale-specific values are present. The Qt Linguist program by TrollTech is used for translation. The Linguist features automatic translation suggestions and a well-designed interface.

If you choose to delete some of your content from your site it will be put in the trash can. It may be restored at a later time or removed completely from the system.

The URL translator is a very useful feature that let you write more browser friendly and user-friendly urls. You can rewrite system urls like content/view/full/42 to /services. You can also use the URL translator for forwarding an old url to its new location.

You can easily handle all your users and hand them privileges in your website. You can add users to user groups and assign them roles that decide what the current user can and cannot do at the site.

Setting up and configuring workflows is handled in the administration interface of your website. You can specify workflows that are run whenever an event happens. This lets you change how things work and extend functionality without changing your website code. For instance, when a shop user buys something, you can create a workflow that asks him whether he wants to have his item wrapped in gift paper. Another use for workflows is editor approval before articles can be published.

Workflows may be used for many other purposes as well: publishing processes (e.g. all articles posted on the front page has to be approved by the editor), notifications (send email to customers with items in the shopping basket, if not checked out within 3 days), move articles to archive after 3 months and managing the steps in the order check-out process.

All content in your website is stored as XML. eZ xml is a DOM XML parser written in PHP. It does not need any external libraries to work. eZ xml enables you to parse and manipulate XML documents. eZ xml supports handling of XML documents as defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0. Namespaces are supported as described by W3C in Namespaces in XML. eZ xml supports the XML Schema standard for validating XML documents. It follows the DOM level 2 as far as possible.

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