Positioning
- Price from £299 per year with support and upgrades
- Licence - Commercial - Open Source
- Hosted "SaaS/Cloud" option
- Purchase direct
- Reseller programme
- Online demos
Installation
- 10 min setup on hosted "SaaS" environment (UK office hours)
- Local development setup - download, documented and supported (30 mins)
- Remote deployment service for dedicated servers
- Azure Web App
Support
- Online help and documentation
- Forum
- Training courses available
- Telephone support - UK business hours
Content Authoring
- Multiple types of pre-configured content
- Formatted Text
- Images
- Flash Movies / Video
- Google Maps
- Email Form
- Formatted Code
- News Articles
- Events
- Products
- Contacts
- Documents
- Links
- Image Gallery
- Vacancies
- Testimonials
- Poll
- Feeds
- FAQ
- WYSIWYG text editor
- Spell checker
- Media asset repository
- Version control with archive and rollback
- Content scheduling / expiration
- Automated image resize
- Bespoke content types configurable using W3C standards for xForm definitions and XSLT templates
- Related content associations
- Multiple content locations with independent order and page location
- Modules with very flexible display options and styles
- Automated Twitter Notifications and RSS Feeds
- Integrated with the award winning Campaign Monitor for e-marketing
Development and Design
- No limits on your design and creativity
- Every single HTML tag accessible using XSLT templates
- Create sophisticated bespoke content types with relationships using xForms
- Extensive ability to upload standard features for bespoke modifications
- Avoids any nasty ASP.Net HTML rendering
- Content can be equally fed to bespoke flash or AJAX using XML
- Continual upgrade path
- Use your choice of IDE Dreamweaver, Visual Studio or Free Visual Web Developer
Page Management
- Hierarchical menu editor
- Move and copy pages
- Page scheduling / expiration
- Choice of page layouts
- Page level user group permissions management
- Menu, sitemap and sub-page overview content modules
- Inheritable content and permissions based on site hierarchy
- Meta information editor
Performance, Standards and SEO
- Highly standards compliant and streamlined HTML
- Full access to all elements required for good SEO
- Google Analytics integration
- Google Webmaster Tools integration
- Automated Google sitemaps
- Yahoo integration
Personalisation / Membership
- User registration
- Password reminder
- Email registration confirmation
- Encrypted password options (MD5, etc)
- Membership groups
- Page permissions by users and groups
- User profile configurable using xForms and XSLT
- Role management and content rights management
- Configurable hierarchical group structure to allow company and department groups
- User integration with eCommerce features
Ecommerce
- Configurable shopping cart process
- Stock control
- VAT rates
- Bespoke Order Notes xForm configuration
- Full end to end cart including secured payment screens
- Integrated with membership to remember address details and payment methods
- Integrated with the following providers.
- PayPoint.net (formerly SecPay)
- SagePay (formerly ProTx)
- PayPoint.net (formerly Metacharge)
- SecureTrading
- WorldPay
- PayPal
- Barclays EPDQ
- UKash
- Premium Credit
- Authorise.Net (US Only)
- Others on request
- Pay on account
- Pay by cash/cheque
- Flexible shipping cost calculations
- Order history tracking
- Email receipts
- Discounts by product group
- Discounts by membership group
- Percentage and money-off discount
- Price breaks
- 3 for 2 offers
- Cheapest item free
- Coupon codes
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