Introduction to website content management
Many web design companies still build static web sites to their clients. It works fine until one decides that changes are needed. Even if client has an ftp access and succeeds to log in to the hosting server it would probably take months or even years for him to understand HTML code and have the ability to effectively update content / service.
Web site owner normally pays an extra fee to a web site design company every time he needs to make a slightest change. To minimize the amount of technical knowledge needed to perform an update web developers designed editable web site solution - Web based application called content management system.
Advantages of a content management system
Content management solution (or simply CMS) provides a restricted area on the website with a user-friendly service that allows to add, edit and remove web pages without having any knowledge about internal programming languages involved in such updates.
CMS comes equipped with advanced WYSiWYG web site software - A powerful HTML editor that allows editing content of every page straight from the web browser (add / edit / remove text, choose fonts, images and specific blocks of service) just like using any popular text processor (like MS Word).
Website content management software also allows selecting the order of pages in the menu, moving them from one section to another, joining specific interfaces (e.g. RSS) and much more.
Smooth Step CMS
We have developed a content management solution that is compatible with Windows and Linux servers. Our CMS service is fully web based meaning that no additional software besides a web browser (Internet Explorer, FireFox or similar) is needed. This gives a great flexibility because our content management system can be accessed from any computer that has an internet connection.
Compatibility
We dedicated large amount of time to make our CMS to be fully compatible with Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox and Safari web browsers.
Availability
Our content management solution comes included with our website package for any new site that we build. We can also rebuild your existing site (create an exact copy) to make it editable with our CMS.
Features
- Web site pages
- Add, remove and edit web pages (headlines), change their order in the menu.
- Web page text
- Add, remove and edit text on the chosen page.
- Image management software
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- Web based picture upload and removal.
- Web based photo resizing
Allows to resize (also sharpen) uploaded pictures to specified size.
- Specific service blocks
- Add and remove contact form, products, weather forecasts, mortgage calculators, image libraries and others.
- Secured login
- Encrypts our CMS passwords so they can't be discovered by third parties.
- News management
- Add, remove and edit news items (with automatic RSS output, optional).
- Product listing software
- Web based product management software (optional).
Usually it takes less than 1 hour of studying to get the basic concepts of how to edit your web site using our management solution. We provide lesions, manuals and support.
Our CMS technology is built to have vast amount of pages - Suitable for individuals and large enterprises.
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