SIMPLE CMS Features
Descriptions for all SIMPLE CMS Features
Client-side
Content Management
Easily create pages of content with a simple form layout and a WYSIWYG editor for visual page creation. No need to use HTML and it's as easy as your favorite text editor (i.e. MS Word). Page creation automatically creates your navigation menu items for you with one click of a button. Even your Meta tags are available on the same page.
Everything you need to simply create a page as fast as you can type is all on the Create Page form. Now that is nice and SIMPLE!
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Quick Edit
When you login with admin privileges to the front-end of the SIMPLE CMS or click "View Site" once logged in to the SIMPLE Administration Panel. "Quick Edit" buttons will appear for easy page editing. These buttons will take you directly to the "edit page" for the corresponding page within the SIMPLE Administration Panel of your CMS. Isn't that SIMPLE"!
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User Administration
Easily administer users and groups from within the SIMPLE Administration Panel. Associate user groups, edit user information, reset passwords for users wilth just a couple clicks of your mouse.
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Menu
Under our Menu section in the SIMPLE Administration Panel, you can edit the position of menu items, create Links to external content on your main navigation and even place links in one or all three targeted menu hotspots (i.e. Header navigation menu, left navigation menu, footer navigation menu). You can also easily position menu items with our easy to use "Drag and Drop" menu position manager.
You can even create multiple menus and associate them to a page or multiple pages of your choice
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Blog
News acts almost like a Blog... actually, it practically is a blog. The main News page offers a "Quick Spot" to view snippets of your latest news articles (you set how many you want to display here). The 'news details' page is a full story view which is created the same way you create a basic content page. However there are Quick Links that allow you to easily jump from one news article to the next from the detail view. News archiving is available as well.
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Event Calendar
The Event Calendar is a easy to use module included in the core CMS. It is a great way to inform your site visitors of special events, future content or product releases, or what ever you can think of. Some of the features of the Event Calendar are:
- Color customization - change background, days, border, tooltip colors
- Font customization - select one of the 20 available fonts to be used
- Date and time format - 12 or 24 hours time format, 10 different date formats
- Week starting day - change week starting day for your calendar
- No page refresh - web page where calendar is placed will not refresh when you scroll through the months and view events
- Multi language support - translate names of days and months and add events in your own language
- Recurring events - add daily, weekly, monthly or yearly recurring events
- Find an event - easily search for an event using a simple search feature
- Multi day events - add as many events as you want for each day selecting start and end time for each event
- Customize your events - add colors for your events so you can easily identify them
CSS Style Sheet
The CSS is fully editable from the SIMPLE Administration Panel. If you are familiar with CSS, the sky is the limit here. You can add, edit and delete anything here... DID YOU SAY DELETE?
Yes! don't worry there is a backup of your last saved working CSS style sheet one click away!
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CMS Configuration
SIMPLE CMS allows you to control practically every aspect of your site. Control display limits, change header text like "Latest News", pretty much anything we have pre built is editable here.
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Image/document Manager
Within the SIMPLE Administration Panel you can upload and manage images and documentation. Move, delete, rename, or just view. Simply rolling over the name of the image will produce a thumbnail view of the image to help easily and quickly identify the image. You can even create new image directories if needed.
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Modules
SIMPLE CMS incorporates a very flexible Module system that allows you to place as many modules any where you like per page. Add an email subscription form to the left, center or right column, your choice! If you do think of something we don't have to offer and Blue Oryx Internet Solutions, LLC decides it will benefit the whole community of SIMPLE CMS users, we will build it and add it FREE of charge to you.
Modules:
Blog - News and articles blogging system
Event Calendar -
A calendar to post upcoming events on
Contact Form - a robust, customizable contact form with CAPTCHA
Email Subscriber - a quick for to capture users email addresses for newsletters
... and many more in the works, such as comments, tell a friend, etc.
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Reports
A variety of reports are available to you through the SIMPLE Administration Panel. Reports generated for certain modules, i.e., Email Subscribers, can be viewed, edited and in some cases can even output appropriate files such as comma delimited lists for easy incorporation into third-party software. Basic site statistics are also reported.
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Site Analysis Tools
SIMPLE CMS allows you to use third party site analysis tools as well. You can set up an account with a third party web analysis such as Google Analytics or Google Sitemap Tools and easily add all code and appropriate files to the server via the SIMPLE Administration Panel. Google's tools are free so why not give it a whirl. They are more in depth than Awstats.
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The Core
Semantic Markup Language
Semantic Markup helps keep the pages small and code clean. Search engines and users love this. Faster page loads and spider crawls play a major role in technical and user interaction. Also by using this markup language the code base will not degrade or become obsolete any time in the near future. Stability and continuity across different Operating Systems and Web Browsers is a key element to a successful internet presence. No matter how small a percentage of your users are, for example, MAC OS using Safari (1-2%), you still don't want to lose them as a customer. We understand this, and our SIMPLE CMS is tested on all current and previous operating systems and browsers from Windows XP home with Internet explorer 5.5 to MAC OSX with Firefox 2 or Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 7 to Mac OSX with Safari.
The SIMPLE Administration Panel for our clients is built with the same standards as the user interface: SIMPLE, clean, fast, and did we mention SIMPLE. Manage every aspect of your site from an easy to use control panel that is well documented and user friendly without fear of being lost in the many technical layers required when building a site from scratch. Just fill in the forms and press "submit"!
If you are looking for a blogging system (blogging pre-installed) or a gallery to append to the SIMPLE CMS, check out our SIMPLE Plug ins (coming soon).
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Total Search Engine Compliance
This feature is crucial to many aspects of your web site. Organic Search is Free, so why not take advantage of that. Sure, Pay-Per-Click programs will get your site seen, but why spend thousands of dollars on advertising if you don't need too? Our SIMPLE CMS is guaranteed to be 100% indexed in Search Engines. Alt, Title, Meta tags, Mod Rewrite URLs, Semantic (CSS) markup language, and much more help you get closer to being in the top 10 for your keywords.
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Mod Rewrite Engine
This Mod Rewrite feature is critical to being fully indexed in search engines and, believe it or not, many content management systems out there still use Query String URLs. Let us clarify: A Query String looks like:
www.mysite.com/index.php?cat=movies&pname=movie-title
Mod Rewrite translates that into a search engine friendly URL like:
www.mysite.com/movies/movie-title/
Search engines, by default, associate movie-title/ to movie-title/index.html. Basically, even though there really isn't a folder called "movies" with a sub folder "movie-title" with a file in that is named "index.html", the spider is none the wiser, and indexes your dynamically generated page as if it were. Unbelievable!!!
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