The WMS

The WMS

The WMS is a fully featured Website Management System, see below for a breakdown of the capabilities of the system.

Features Breakdown

True web based content management +

  • Login with any modern browser and start editing - no need for client software.
  • Compatible on both Windows and Macintosh operating systems with Internet Explorer 5.5+, Netscape Navigator 7.1+, Opera 7+, Mozilla 1.6+, FireFox 0.9+, Safari 1.2.
  • The WMS application is optimised for fast loading and processing of user actions.

Flexible user access rights +

  • Administrators can add, edit or remove user access rights through sophisticated site administration panel.
  • Passwords for new users generated automatically and sent direct to specified email address.
  • Apply granular access rights: control each user's site editing rights down to individual page elements.

Edit any web page content +

  • WMS managed sites can be set up to allow users to edit any kind of web page content, including page header meta tags providing keywords for search engines.

Edit pages written in any web programming language +

  • The WMS does not interfere with server-side programming code embedded in a web page: edit pages written in any web development language, such as ASP.Net, PHP or ColdFusion.

Compatible with standards compliant/accessible pages +

  • WMS generated code complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3) web standards.
  • Fully compatible with W3 Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines.

Intuitive page editing interface +

  • Add and edit web page content through a simple web form interface: text boxes and select menus correspond to regions of editable content on pages.
  • No knowledge of HTML required.
  • Format page body text, add links and insert images using Microsoft Word style text formatting buttons.
  • Option to edit page body text directly in HTML.

Reuse blocks of content across a site +

  • Create 'components', blocks of content that can be used on multiple pages: update a component once to change content of all the pages in which it is embedded.
  • Components can consist of any page content, including navigation menus, lists, images or blocks of text.

Rollback to previous page edits +

  • The WMS's history feature records all changes made to an editable page region: rollback to a previous edit at any time.

Generate navigation menus automatically +

  • Option to generate navigation menus automatically. The WMS derives menu content from analysing site file structure.

Site file structure management +

  • Intuitive site tree control visually represents site structure.
  • Easily create new folders to organise pages into sections.
  • Use tree control to find pages easily for editing or deletion.

Organise non-HTML files in libraries +

  • Create libraries to store non-HTML files such as images, Flash animations, QuickTime movies, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.
  • Users can upload files easily from hard drives to the web server hosting WMS managed sites.

Preview pages before publishing +

  • Preview pages at any time before publishing from WMS page development area to server live area.

Easy page publishing +

  • Publish a page to the server live area through a simple one-click publishing system.
  • Publish all pages on a site simultaneously, or specify pages to be published in batches.