Get online with a new Content Management System

DotNetNuke is the premier open source content management system on the windows platform.  We are Dotnetnuke experts and can help you install, setup and customize your Dotnetnuke portal. We can also custom build content management tools for your website to allow you to easily manage your content.

A content management system will allow your non technical staff to quickly and easily maintain your website.  It provides you with the all the tools needed to operate and maintain a Membership website, as well as giving the administrator complete control of the content, layout, membership, and security of the site.

We can help you build an original, dynamic web portal.  Create new pages of content, using pre-built content tools like page and photo management, press releases, job opportunities, catalogs, pdf upload, blogs, forums, event calendars, FAQs, feedback forms and contact us forms.  Create membership roles, sending bulk emails, and defining secure sections for registered site users only.  Setup banner advertising, customize the site’s appearance, and submit the site to search engines.

Multi User access and workflow tools:  Let anyone in an organization publish to websites and bring them alive with up-to-date content and information. There is no easier or more affordable way to keep web content current and relevant.  If you use Microsoft Word, then you can use this content management system.

Now you can easily update and manage web content yourself using an easy WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) website building tool that lets you rapidly create, manage websites without having to learn HTML. 

You have complete control of your web content and can add/edit/delete product information, build a new site pages, change navigation and alter your branding or launch a new marketing initiative in minutes.

• Rich text formatting, search, replace, undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, tables, links, images and much more!
• Create slick tables fast - set your border color, alignment, spacing and more. Once created, simply right click on it for a handy popup attribute menu with no HTML knowledge required!
• Upload images directly into your content - using the powerful image manager is a snap.
• Powerful link manager - point and click to create links to other pages on your website or to external sites
• Drag and Drop Functionality - Containers and modules are easily moved within pages by mouse, using drag and drop feature.

User and Membership Management

• User Login: The Portal provides improved user login security. User Names and Passwords are case sensitive.
• User Lock-Out: Web sites can now optionally be configured to ‘lock out’ a user who has made a multiple failed attempts at logging in to a site.
• Advanced Security Role Permissions: The ability to set who can view or edit pages or sections of content on a page.
• User Groups are supported and allow you to place multiple users in a group. For example, a new group could be created named ‘Content Editor’, whereby only members in the content editor group can  maintain content on the web site. This provides advanced distributed authoring and provides companies with greater control of their site.

Portal Modules – The basic building blocks used to build web pages inside the Portal.  These modules can be easily added, edited, deleted, restored, moved around on a page, or transferred to other pages.  The content management system includes over 25 canned modules.

• Account Log In - Permits users to log in to your website.
• Announcements - Produces a list of simple text announcements consisting of a title and brief description.
• Automated Email Notifications - The Portal Software includes automatic email messages which are sent to site members at key events such as at Registration, when they subscribe to a Members Service, when they request a Password Reminder, etc. A standard message is included for each notification and all notifications are personalized with the user’s name; however the site Administrator is able to modify the wording of each notification to suit her/his business needs or promotional goals.
• Banner Ads - Add banners and track their effectiveness.  Revenue can be generated and managed through the use of banner advertisements.  Through the Vendors tab, administrators can easily; add vendors and their profile information; upload banners and determine their placement; define number of impressions, cost per impression, or length of ad campaign; track ad views and click-thrus; and define affiliate referrals.
• Three appearance settings are provided in the Banners module. You can now display banners either vertically or horizontally on a page; add white space around banners; and set a border width and color. Banners can now be either an image, text, or be a dynamic script. Banners can also be ‘grouped’ allowing you to control which vendor’s banners are displayed in each module.
• Built-in traffic logs – 15 canned site log reports.  See who is viewing your site
• Contacts – Assigns contact information for a group of people, for example a project team.
• Controllable Security - Control who sees or edits any content on your site.
• Chat – Full featured chat module similar to Yahoo chat.
• Discussion - group of messages posted on a specific topic
• Document Library- Put your documentation online to browse or download
• Event List/Calendar- List of upcoming events, including time and location. The events list can alternately be set to render in calendar format.

• FAQ - Allow you to manage a list of Frequently Asked Questions and their corresponding Answers
• Feedback Form- Collect feedback from your visitors
• Forum – Full featured Forum/Blog module
• IFrame - Is an Internet Explorer browser feature which allows you to display content from another website within a frame on your site
• Images- Displays an image. This simply refers to the image by a relative or absolute URL, so the image file does not need to reside within the site.
• Links- List of hyperlinks to any tab, image or file on your website; or to a file, image or web page on another website
• News Feeds (RSS) - News feeds provide your visitors with up-to-date, topical information on any range of topic.

• Search – Ability to search entire site for particular keywords
• Service Directory - Exposes the list of vendors maintained in the Admin tab. This allows you to search for vendors based on key word criteria and company name.
• Show/Hide pages at will - Keep seasonal content for future use
• Survey- Allows your website users complete online surveys. Survey results are displayed as a bar chart and it includes the number of individual responses.
• Text/HTML - Design content in a visual editor, or add html. Includes a picture gallery of all your uploaded images.
• User Accounts - Permits Registered Users to add, edit and update their User Account details. Membership services are also managed here.
• User Defined Table - Allows you to create a custom data table for managing tabular information. Note that clicking on a heading reorders the data A-Z or Z-A
• Users Online: Display one, two or three of Membership, People Online or Online Now information using this module.
• URL Tracker - The new advanced URL tracker gives the Administrator the options to track the number of times a link is clicked across the Announcements, Documents and Links modules. For example, if a link to a file is added to an Announcements module and the file is also listed in your documents directory in a Documents module, the clicks will be recorded in both places. This allows you to gain a profile of the most effective way to manage or promote information. The Advanced URL Tracker also records the User who clicked on the URL, the time of the click and the title of the module that was click. This provides a great marketing tool that assists with understanding the habits of your users, what module titles are most appealing and how to maximize.
• XML/XSL - This displays the result of an XML/XSL transform. The XML and XSL files are identified by their UNC paths in the xmlsrc and xslsrc properties.
• International/Multiple Languages - Enables Portal Administrators to select the language which fields will be displayed as on the Admin and Host pages. This is a great feature for multi-national enterprises. Combined with Site Templates this feature enables a company to create a Site Template with content, create new portals based on the template and then have Administrators in each country interpret the content as required.
• Online Help - Includes a built in context sensitive help from within the Portal.

Site Management Features

• • Site Wizard: The new Site Wizard allows you to quickly build new portals. This feature includes the ability to choose site design and site template. You can either merge the template with any existing content, or just override the content.
  • File Management Features: This powerful tool allows administrators the ability to upload files directly from their computer to their portal.  Any uploaded file becomes instantly available to be used on the portal, or listed in a module that handles documents or file downloads.
  • Copy an Existing Page: When adding a new page you can choose to copy the module layout of an existing page, with or without copying the module content.
  • Set Page to URL: A page can now be set to any URL. This can be an existing page, a file, or an external web site.

Module Management Features

• • Export/Import Module Content:  greatly reduces the time required to build and maintain content by allowing authors to export and import content from one module to another module of the same type. This saves administration effort and costs by eliminating the need to retyping same or similar to content.
  • Syndicate Module Content: Modules now also include the ability to provide users with the ability to syndicate any of your content on their website. Where ‘Content is King’ and webmasters are looking for an easy way to get content on their site, this is a simple way to have your partners promote your services, news announcements, etc on their sites.
  • Content Printing: Administrators can optionally provide users with the ability view a plain text version of module content for printing. You users will appreciate the ease with which they can print important information from your web site without unnecessary formatting or images.
    Moving Modules: When adding a new module or moving an existing module on a page, you can choose to position it at either the top or bottom of a pane. Where a pane includes a number of modules, this can save lots of clicks!
  • Adding New Modules: You can now enter a title for a new module before adding it to the page. A second feature is to choose who will be able to view the module when you add it to the page. This allows you to add a module that only the Administrator can view, permitting time to add content before the module ‘goes live’.
  • Copy an Existing Module: When adding a new module you can now choose to copy an existing module including content.
  • Module Start and End Dates: Another advanced publishing tool is the ability to set the first and last date that a module is visible on the site. This allows Administrators to create content in advance, such as monthly announcements and be assured that the content is always published on time.
    Module Header and Footer: An options header and footer can be added above and below module content. Where content is minimized, these fields are still displayed permitted users to quickly establish which content they are interested in accessing.
  • Create Default Module Settings: A single check box option is available to change a number of module setting to be standard across all existing modules, or just for new modules. These include title visibility, container design, background color, border width, enable/disable module printing, enable/disable module syndication, visibility (maximize/minimize/none).