Content Management System

Managed Websites – Devnet CMS Web Manager

What is a Content Management System?

A Content management system is a set of processes, technologies, concepts and practices to do with developing, collecting, managing and publishing content. A CMS separates the content and presentation, templates, metadata, XML and has a process to manage the content lifecycle and workflow.

Why you need it

The amount of information and functionality on the site is expanding rapidly.
There are requirements for expanding the site to encompass new areas such as business-to-business relationships, multi-lingual sites, integration with suppliers and partners.
The content on the site needs to be more up to date and the process for updating site content needs to be more efficient. For example, the ‘Webmaster bottleneck’ must be overcome.
There are ever more content contributors to the site many of whom have very different content authoring and delivery processes.
Expectations for the reliability and quality of site performance are fast increasing: broken links, missing images and invalid e-mail addresses are just not acceptable; page load times must be minimized and consistency of branding and presentation maintained.
There is increasing demand for personalized content and functionality.
There are growing requirements for content to be published not just to other digital channels but offline channels such as print as well.
There is a growing number of different types of media assets and content that have to be managed over and above basic text and imagery.
There is increasing pressure for solutions to be accountable: their performance measurable and auditable for a variety of commercial, legal and other reasons.

What they are used for

Corporate sites.
Intranets.
Extranets.
Community sites.
E-commerce sites.

Features out of the box

Content Management

WYSIWYG editing in a browser-based user interface.
Dynamic site structure and site map.
Customizable workflow and versioning.
Content scheduling.
Content/design separation.
Customizable document fields and metadata.
Multiple languages in a single web site.
File management.

Development

Portal engine based on web parts.
Browser-based development.
Easy integration of custom code through browser or Visual Studio 2005.
Re-usable page templates.
Detailed documentation of system, API and database.
Open API extensible with custom providers and handlers.
Add custom modules, web parts, third-party controls, etc.

Built-in Modules

Blogs.
Content staging.
E-commerce.
Event calendar.
Forums.
Image gallery.
Newsletter.
On-line forms.
Polls.
Reporting.
User contributions.
Web farm support.
Web analytics.

Security

Forms and Windows authentication.
Membership support (sign up, member management).
Customizable roles.
Document-level permissions.
Secured pages with personalized content.

Web Site

Flexible, dynamically generated navigation.
Highly customizable menus (drop-down, tree, UL list menu, tabs).
Full-text search.
SEO support and friendly (smart) URLs.
Web standards: XHTML, table or CSS layout, WAI.
Easy deployment from development to live server (export/import whole web site).
Multiple sites managed in a single installation of code and database.

Custom Modules

Devnet can design custom modules that plug into the existing system because the system does not suffer from a lack of flexibility and extensibility. Since Devnet CMS Web Manager was designed as a web development framework, you will not be restricted with pre-defined behavior or design.