Server Requirements: The CMS system has been designed to run on any platform supporting the PHP programming language. Including
1) Linux / FreeBSD
2) Windows
3) Mac OS X
4) Solaris
Database Requirements: The CMS system can be made to support any ODBC compliant database or any database that PHP has an API to connect to. The CMS currently supports Microsoft SQL server and MySql databases out of the box. The CMS can be modified to support other databases at an additional cost.
Backend Requirements: Users will be required to have Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher on a Windows PC.
Website Requirements: You can design your site to be viewed in any browser or all browsers. This would be dependent on your design.
Content Editing: The CMS system is equipped with the latest WYSIWYG editor (What you see is what you get) some of the features of the editor include.
1. Font formatting (size, bold, italics, etc)
2. CSS support
3. Tables
4. Image Editor
5. MS Word Cleanup
6. Linking
7. HTML Code Editing Mode
8. Help Reference Menu
9. New: Full Screen Mode
10. New: Spell Check
11. New: Find and Replace
12. New: Macromedia Flash Import
Content Organization: The CMS system allows you to organize your content in a few different ways
1. Order of your pages in your site.
2. Control the order of the categories (folders)
3. Content can be moved between categories
4. Create your site structure with nested categories
Customizable Security
1. Define your workgroups and add users to them. Completely customize your user-types
2. Assign responsibilities throughout the site
3. Define which areas of the site(s) your users will have access to.
Approval Process:
1. Check-in/Check-out system makes sure that no two users are working on the same content at any given time
2. Ability to preview the live version of a page as well as the changes submitted for approval
3. Ability to reject changes with comments
4. Ability to send site changes to an "approver" who would then send the page back to a responsible party for publishing
Templates
1. Create an unlimited number of templates
2. Sample code provided to integrate with Dreamweaver templates
3. Utilize PHP code to pull information dynamically from the content management system (API provided)
Content Reuse and Content Archiving
1. Unlimited Reuse of content
2. "Single Source" editing
3. Store content in a searchable archive or pull it out of the archive for reuse on the site.
Macromedia DreamWeaver Support
4. Automatically Import a DreamWeaver site (site must use templates)
5. Update your site with DreamWeaver templates (Support for DW 4.0 and MX)
Other Features:
1. Schedule a page to go "on" or "off" line
2. Restore a backup (up to 10 versions of a piece of content are archived)
3. Site Search
4. Content Find/Replace
5. "My Pages" a quick reference to all of the pages you are editing
6. DHTML menu support
7. Meta-tag Management
