Features of The Blue Cube's Content Management System (CMS)

A Content Management System (CMS) is a collection of tools which allow you to create, modify and remove information from your own website.

CMS users don't need any in-depth technical knowledge of website building and design. Using an agreed password, permitted users can log in and update their website online. There can be as many or as few users as you prefer.

It could be that hundreds of members of a large organisation will need to update the website daily, or just the marketing team.
A Content Management System from The Blue Cube will have the following features as standard:

Become the author of your own website

A Contact Management System will allow you to become the author of your own website. You can edit it through any computer connected to the internet with a current web browser. You will be able to do this from anywhere in the world and no additional software is needed.

The Blue Cube will provide you with a Rich Text Editor (RTE), which allows you to format text, insert images and create internal and external links in the same way as you would with a word document.

Preserve the style of your website

No matter what changes you make to the site, your work will always match the basic design settings of the page. This will happen automatically so that the website appears seamless.

An interface to ensure smooth running of the site

An interface is software that allows for communication between two software systems or between people and systems.
When making changes to your own website, a ‘fast backend interface’ is what will ensure that these changes are understood by systems such as databases within the site.

Clipboard and copy/cut/paste

Most people are already familiar with cutting, copying and pasting. So using this when you are rearranging items within your site will probably be second nature to you.

Easily add hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are the links within the website which allow you to move around the site, or move to other website addresses. Using the Content Management System, you can easily add your own hyperlinks. The system will ensure that you don't create hyperlinks that won‘t lead anywhere.

Content management

Easy to understand forms will guide you through any additions you make to the website. There is no limit to the amount of items you can add to the site, per category or per page.

File management

Something called an 'internal file manager' will allow you to upload, rename, copy, move, delete and even edit files online.

Scheduled publishing

Individual pages and their contents, can be set to automatically go on and offline whenever you choose for this to happen.

Text import

You can easily take Word documents or similar documents and import these to your website, using a simple cut and paste.

Version control

To avoid any lost data, you will be able to save the last five versions of the document that you have been working on, in a section called 'revision history'.

Personalisation

Something called 'PHP' will allow individual user login names and passwords to be used and recognised. This means that you can personalise each person's visit to the website.

Modular design

The simple design of a CMS means that it is quick and easy to manage and quick to install.

Direct Mail module and newsletter system

A Content Management System will include a Direct Mail system. This means that you will be able to send highly personalised emails and newsletters to subscribers that register with you.

Internal site search engine

The Blue Cube’s CMS features a search option, which allows you to search certain parts of the website for items you are trying to locate and change.

Front-end editing

This simply means that you can edit the website pages while you are browsing them. The Content Management System allows you to click on what you are browsing, in order to edit it.

Minimal training needed

The technical names used to describe this online editing system, are 'WYSIWYG editing' or 'front-end editing'. It is these systems that enable a non-technical person to become a content author in seconds.

Administrator and manager

You will have the power to manage and administrate the website. You can creates users, assign responsibilities, or create and supervise workflows.

Managing fellow CMS users

You can authorise users and groups to access and edit only certain objects and modules in certain sections of the website. Simple or complex roles can be assigned to users - you will be free to decide who has access to what.

Gaining statistics about your website

The Blue Cube's Content Management System will help you to gather statistics about your website. Facts such as the number of visitors, visitors' country or region, repeat visitors, pages viewed, and the most visited pages, can be accessed via a user-friendly administration panel.

Multilevel advanced caching

The CMS that we will provide you with, features 'cache' capabilities. Pronounced cash, this is a special high-speed storage mechanism. This basically means that you will only have to carry out the more demanding editing functions such as resizing photos, once. This is because the CMS will remember what options you chose the first time you carried out this function.
This means that website pages are generated very quickly and efficiently.

100% Browser based

The Blue Cube's CMS system is used via the internet. Anyone who has Internet Explorer 5+ can obtain and use a CMS.

Strong PHP / MySQL

PHP4 is a computing language called 'scripting'. Our Content Management System combines PHP4 with something called MySQL. These work fine with most of today's Internet Service Provider's (ISP's).

Relational Database

Storage of any content that is added to your website is done via a very fast database, called a relational database.