• Content Aggregation & Authoring

    • XHTML (Strict or 1.1) WYSIWYG browser based editor enforcing open standards

    • Copy and paste enabled with XHTML cleaning

    • In-context Editing

    • Cleans Microsoft Word and Office documents to text with appropriately formatted styles

    • Manages content in multiple languages

    • Interaction with web services/REST/SOAP

    • XML/XHTML source code editor

    • Manage and version images, and digital assets

    • Accessibility preview mode

    • Built in table editor

    • Configurable toolbar

    • Share content objects across multiple sites

    • Dynamic page preview

    • Dynamic link management with link checking

    • Dynamic menu and breadcrumb trail generation

  • Localisation

    • Multi-lingual versions of the same element of content managed side by side in the editor

    • Non western (double byte) character sets are supported as standard

    • Multi-lingual spell checker and custom dictionary

    • Multi-lingual management of documents and images

  • Site Design

    • No design constraints

    • Integrates with any page design

    • Integrates with Flash and Director

    • Modular, flexible JSP template system

    • Dynamically resizes images on the fly

  • Site Templates

    • Templates conform with XHTML 1.1 strict

    • Develop templates with any development tools

    • Uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

    • Dynamic Template switching for different output devices and content channels

    • XSLT Style Sheet Support

  • Access Security

    • Comprehensive browser based administration

    • Role, content and user based security

    • Multi-site management

    • Create unlimited user groups with unlimited levels of permissions

    • Lock user groups to particular content folders

    • Extendable fields for each user group

    • Easy sign up through web interface to multiple groups

    • Configurable notification emails

  • Search

    • Built in, extensible, Lucene search engine

    • Soundex Searching

    • “Did you mean” functionality

    • Search across text, images and documents

  • Editing/Workflow

    • Easy to use, fast, intuitive interface

    • WYSIWYG editing

    • Page locking for team working

    • Automatic workflow email notifications

    • Assign access-rights to specific areas of content

    • Comments log for each article of content

    • Advanced workflow rules

    • Encrypted md5 hashed strong passwords

    • SSL ready

    • Java based user authentication

  • Versioning

    • Page versioning, archiving and roll back

    • Page expiry and live dates

    • Automatic date / time stamping

    • Full history/versioning of websites - roll forward or back to any version

    • Full history/versioning of individual articles and user edits log

    • Full versioning of content folders, page sections, images and digital assets

  • Personalisation & behavioural targeting

    • Database-driven with dynamic page generation

    • Built-in site membership and log-in capabilities

    • Configurable metadata categories

    • Content delivery based on user profiles

    • Content delivery based on site usage

    • Content delivery based on Geo-location

    • Integrated content tagging for personalised content delivery

  • Reporting / Analytics

    • Site usage/click through trail

    • In depth web analytics

    • Keyword and referral analysis

    • Browser / Geography / Search reports

    • Link checker

    • User access logging

    • Integrates with Analytics Applications such as Google Analytics

  • Publishing

    • Automatic site-map creation

    • Preview new/updated pages

    • Preview entire site before publishing

    • Publishes changes immediately

    • Publish content to multiple sites/domains

    • Patch one off pages quickly

  • Syndication

    • 2-way RSS syndicated news feeds; both import and export

    • Web Services ready

    • XML import and export on demand

    • Support for article group linking

  • Metadata

    • Manage meta data throughout the hierarchy or down to page level granularity

    • Dublin Core meta data for images and digital assets

    • Integrated content tagging – collaborative categorisation and personalisation

  • Email Management

    • Email marketing

    • Send marketing emails

    • Personalise email content

    • Automatically pull content for personalised emails from the website

    • Tag and archive emails on the website

    • Track read rates

    • Track click through rates to the site

    • Manage un-subscribes

    • Automatically clean email lists

    • Import/export email lists

  • Technical Architecture

    • Open Architecture uses XML, JBDC, Java, JSP and tag libraries

    • Interaction with external system via XML

    • Standard encryption technology support

    • Written in 100% Java

    • Runs on any Java (JSP 2.0) compliant application server (Jakarta Tomcat, BEA Weblogic)

    • Runs on any Java compliant operating system (Windows, Solaris, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD)

    • Runs on any JDBC compliant database (MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle)

    • Built on solid OO principles; extendable, scalable and reliable.

    • Configurable caching tags for extreme performance

    • FSA-accredited security

    • Host with Solid State Group, or with your own provider

    • Regular point upgrades

  • Interactive Elements

    • Competitions, both web based and SMS

    • Integrated forums with swear filters and moderator tools

    • Integrates postcode lookup using the Post Office web service (Post Office fees apply)

    • Easy web form builder, for collecting, emailing and storing information

    • Online quiz creator and reports

    • Online Poll creator and reports

    • Integrated events calendar, event booking and reporting

    • eCommerce shopping cart and checkout process

    • SagePay, WorldPay and Paypal integration

    • Create PDF’s dynamically from website content

  • Web 2.0

    • Page-based commenting with moderation

    • Article ratings

    • 2-way Twitter Integration

  • Accessibility

    • WYSIWIG toolbar button to help validate for accessibility compliance

    • Configurable to WACG A, AA or AAA standard

    • Forces key accessibility issues such as alt tags for images

    • Forces XHTML 1.1 compliancy

  • Search Engine Optimisation

    • Vanity URLs, create shorter, more concise web addresses that are search engine friendly

    • 3 types of meta data allow content to be classified correctly by search engines

    • URLs appear in / notation; no ugly query strings

    • Link checking ensures all internal links are correct

    • Integrated tagging of content creates higher keyword density within articles, and allows browsing by topic as well as hierarchy

    • Automatic page titles, or override as required

    • Separate style sheet configured for search engines

    • Create more links to relevant content using article auto-linking

    • XML sitemaps to aid search engines to spider content pages