Manage all your website content quickly and easily
What is a Content Management System?
A content management system (or CMS) is designed to simplify the publication of website content. It allows content creators to submit their content to the Web without needing technical knowledge or how to upload files.
Is a CMS right for you?
To determine whether a CMS is right for your business, ask yourself the following questions:
- Does your website change frequently?
- Do you need to quickly and easily add, remove or amend content?
- Do you sell large numbers of products on-line?
- Do you lack the time, the resources or the inclination to acquire the necessary technical skills?
- Do you need to publish content which consists of text, images, audio files, video files or electronic documents such as PDFs?
If you answered yes to most of these questions then a content management system may well be worth considering as an effective business tool for you.
Introducing The Escape’s own CMS
For some years now, The Escape has successfully deployed a large number of installations of this highly intuitive Web-based application on behalf of our customers. We remain committed to investing in it to ensure that it continues to evolve in order to meet the needs of a demanding digital world but without losing its simplicity and ease-of-use which is the envy of many similar products.
The CMS will allow you to:
- Access and edit content on your Web pages
- Access, upload and manage text, image files, audio files and video files
- Create downloads for site visitors
- Add, remove and amend text from single characters or words to whole pages
- Dynamically create and publish blogs, news or events sections
- Automatically generate Web enquiry forms
- Add and manage meta data to develop search engine friendly Web pages
Bespoke CMS solutions
Our content management system has been developed using vital functionality. Firstly, the interface is simple, yet powerful - offering flexible control over your content while highly effective Web design along with search engine optimization, usability and accessibility are also key factors.
Every solution can also be customised with exciting and innovative bespoke modules (including e-commerce) to boost your productivity: The main features include:
Flexible platform solutions:
We work with content management systems on ASP (Microsoft® Windows®) and PHP (Linux). Each system is software independent, so all you need is a web browser to manage your website.
Page management:
Create pages and sections on your website and position them for an effective web structure. Decide how you want your pages to be displayed and in which level of the navigation.
Content management:
Easily create content, import images, and create page links with a simple to use interface. The content management system engine creates appropriate meta tags to make your web pages stand out in search engines.
Multiple templates:
Multiple templates can be arranged so you can display your pages in different styles depending on the content.
Asset management:
Upload and manage images and documents for display or download. Images can be resized to suit your page templates and an array of images can be uploaded for your clients to download.
News and events:
Easily create news and events that can be time delayed to display and archived when they become dated. You can also distribute these sections as RSS automatically.
Forms and e-mail:
Easily create reply forms that e-mail directly to an e-mail address. Set your fields, including multiple options and large text fields, decide if they are mandatory and there you have it.
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Technical details:
The built-in editor allows you to:
- Insert / identify hierarchical H1, H2, H3 heading tags
- Insert images through in-built ‘Asset Manager’
- Insert / maintain links
- Insert / organise internal pages
- Insert external URLs
- Insert e-mail addresses
- Insert column headings
- Insert bulleted / numeric lists
- Insert / edit tables
- Upload and manage ‘Assets’ (e.g. images, PDFs, etc.)
- Align cells of horizontally
- Set table size (rows and columns)
- Set text to bold and / or italic.
» Screenshot 1 (above) shows the simplicity of the website configuration page.
» Screenshot 2 (above) shows the power and ease with which your website content can be added, deleted or amended.
Hosting requirements
- Windows-based server
- IIS 5.0 or newer
- SQL Server 2005 (Express Edition (FREE) or higher)
- ASPJPEG image component must be installed
- IIS configuration by sysadmin.
- Error 404 URL
- Parent Paths enabled
- ‘Modify’ permissions for client assets folders
- CDO or CDONTS must be configured.
The CMS for people for with real jobs
The benefits of a content management are numerous. Not least, it eliminates the need for in-depth technical knowledge... so you can do what you do best which is to get on with running your business.
Other benefits include:
- Minimal training costs for faster ROI
- Total control over content - 24 x 7 x 365
- Fast learning curve for rapid deployment
- Intuitive front-end for ease of use
- Web-based interface for access anytime, anywhere.
In short, a content management system is the ultimate solution for those looking to develop and update their on-line presence regularly and with the minimum of fuss.
For more details on how to develop your on-line presence and work the way YOU want to work either contact The Escape now or give us a ring for a friendly chat on 01256 334 567.