Content Management Systems
Take control of your website.
A content management system gives website owners the ability to edit website content, add and delete navigation elements, manage events calendars, image galleries, document collections, news feeds, blogs, and more. We use MURA CMS as our preferred content management system. MURA is a robust open source CMS with a strong community surrounding it. The chart below outlines our favorite features and benefits.
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Intuitive interface | Easily manage your website. No coding necessary! Add a new page in 2 clicks; new pages inherit page template and content configuration by default. |
| Easy to edit | WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor makes it easy to make changes to the content of your site. |
| Built in menu system | Navigation is automatically updated when pages are added or deleted. Optional breadcrumb navigation makes it easy for site visitors to find their way around your site. |
| User management | Add users and groups and give them control over different parts of the web site. Control whether or not they can publish content live to the site, or create drafts for review by someone else. |
| Document and file management | It's easy to upload photos, illustrations, PDFs and WORD documents and link to them in your web site. |
| Photo gallery | Easy to manage photo gallery allows site owners to post photos online. |
| Calendar system with the ability to allow users to set event reminders | Integrate dynamic calendars to post events online. Event reminders will be automatically emailed before your event. |
| Password protected areas for content accessible to members only | Restrict access to areas of your site. Create Extranets or Member's only sections for your web site |
| Advertising Manager | Manage and sell and advertising on your web site. |
| Content tracking and versioning | Track changes made to your site. If you make a mistake it's easy to roll back to a previous version. |
| Reusable content components | Build a content component once and reuse it as needed through out your site. |
| Tools for interactivity | Features such as comment forms, content raters, event reminder forms, and user favorites make it easy to allow your customers to interact with you and each other through your web site. |
| Search engine friendly architecture | Search engine friendly URLS improve the visibility of your website. |
| Visitor tracking | Dashboard summarizes who is using your site, most popular pages, where visitors are coming from and other information to help you optimize your site. |
