Content Management
Allow business users and non-technical personnel to add, author and update Web content. Translate content on-the-fly with the best in business multilingual support. Put messaging in the hands of the people who know it best. Apply workflows, approvals and permissions as well as maintain a complete history of the changes. Editing content is as easy as editing a Microsoft® Word document.
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Document Management
Always find the document you need to read or edit. Manage all your documents and digital assets online just like Web site content. Apply permissions, work flows, approvals, and maintain a complete history of changes over time. Auto-generate PDFs or publish to HTML on-the-fly.
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Personalization & Portals
Let your site visitors to build their own customized view of your web pages with a wide array of content options.
You provide and manage the options, ensuring the allowed customizations are easy and straight forward for your site visitor experience. Expose Ektron controls, such as threaded discussions, blogs, forms, calendars, content lists and polls. Users can drag-and-drop these control frames into template-style “drop zones” to personalize their website experience. Your designers can also build “shared views” of your pages using the same functionality but changes are viewed by everyone.
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Membership, Subscriptions & Web Alerts
Ektron’s Membership model is the key to building interaction and relationships with your Web site visitors and members. Visitors can register to become a part of your membership base. Once registered a visitor can subscribe to content on your site, personalize Web pages and even have HTML forms auto populate their information.
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Advanced HTML Form Builder
Ektron makes it easy to create a two-way dialog with site visitors by enabling them to submit information, data and questions via Web forms. A new wizard-like tool lets marketers and others build forms and form-based applications, and route the data collected to the right individual or group for processing.
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Web Analytics
Complete built-in Web site analytics, track new and returning visitors per day, week, month, or year. Identify the most requested Web pages on your Web site, intranet, or extranet. See where your visitors are coming from and where they are going.
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Polls & Surveys
Encourage interaction with your Web site visitors with online polls and surveys. Questions are generated easily with Ektron’s built-in form wizard. Overall results can be displayed instantly when submitted. Use for market research, customer satisfaction and other feedback.
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508, W3C Compliance, & Broken Link Checker
Automatically ensure content is 508 and W3C compliant and identify the level of compliance predetermined by you and establish content publishing guidelines, which could restrict content publishing if compliance levels are not achieved. Built-in link checking validates all templates, content, menus, CSS and even JavaScript. The utility can run on-demand or on a recurring schedule.
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New Developer SDK
The next-generation API makes it easier to develop and extend CMS400.net’s already robust out-of-the-box functionality. Carry over your custom-developed code and functionality during CMS product upgrades without breaking your existing application and intuitive API documentation navigation and IntelliSense allow you to quickly access descriptions of the many CMS functions available.
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ASP.NET Server Controls & Dreamweaver Extensions
Whether you’re an ASP.NET or Dreamweaver developer, Ektron has the tools to make development time as minimal as possible. Integrated ASP.NET server controls and Dreamweaver extensions can be dragged and dropped onto your Web forms, properties can easily be set and content from the database is even displayed in the development environment.
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Search & Search Engine Optimization
Always find the document that you need quickly and easily with complete built-in searching. All Web site content, documents and digital assets are fully indexed. Ektron CMS400.net also includes all the tools for creating a Web site that is fully optimized for search engines with complete metadata support for all Web site content, images, assets and even multimedia.
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Taxonomy (new in version 7.0)
Ektron’s hierarchal taxonomy classifies and structures web pages and managed documents into logical groupings based on their content. Using any number of taxonomy trees predefined by CMS administrators, content can be categorized into structured parent-child navigation. Ektron’s taxonomy provides the option of tagging one piece of content with many different category associations the benefit is your ability to repurpose content in many areas of your site. In addition, taxonomy can also be used to limit the scope of a search to reduce the amount of irrelevant content returned, providing a very powerful site navigation tool.
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Site Navigation (new in version 7.0)
Most site visitors will navigate your site in a number of ways... the site menu system, site map and perhaps
the most critical and often overlooked navigation tool for your website ... search. CMS400.net’s new search language API enables the generation of dynamic summaries based on content and assets. Using index search technology (hash look-up) to search content your site visitors will find exactly what they are looking for, ensuring a richer user experience, including:
- Better performance delivering more accurate search results quickly
- Result ranking displays only the most relevant content listing
- Customized search queries for drilling into only the relevant areas of your web site
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Wiki Directory Content (new in version 7.0)
Ektron’s CMS400.net Wiki enables organizations to create websites specifically designed for communication, collaboration and sharing information.
By adding Ektron’s Wiki capabilities to your public website, you encourage site visitors to participate in your online community and promote openness in reading and authoring content. Start sharing information through an online encyclopedia, a site for frequently asked questions, a knowledge base or a simple message board where visitors contribute to articles and content. Anyone visiting the site’s wiki-defined pages can edit, update and add web pages quickly and easily and with no knowledge of HTML or wiki syntax.
Add explicit structure and manage your wiki content using Ektron’s Directory Taxonomy, which provides detailed category tagging, search, breadcrumb and navigation for all of your wiki articles. Or take advantage of Ektron’s advanced security and workflow to moderate contributions for accuracy and authenticity.
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GeoMapping (new in version 7.0)
CMS400.net v7.0 brings GPS mapping technology to web content management. Using Ektron’s GeoMapping functionality, content can be tagged with longitude and latitude coordinates to leverage Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ and Google Earth. Google provides the map, you provide the message! After inputting specific address information, the coordinates are formulated automatically in the content’s metadata. The metadata enables you to plot the coordinates on a dynamic AJAX-enabled map mash-up, and display and search the content based on map category and map navigation, which is optimized with the new Taxonomy functionality.
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Forums (new in version 7.0)
CMS400.net v7.0 adds many new features to the forums control, including: paging, IP address restriction, automatic restricted word replacement, predefined signature lines, upload and attachment capabilities, RSS subscriptions, the history of a member’s posts, user rankings and a terms and conditions disclaimer.
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Blogs (new in version 7.0)
Ektron’s built-in blogging technology is enhanced to support blog creation and moderation by registered site members. It also includes a standard blog API to interface with and get updates from Microsoft® Office 2007, and integrate with other desktop blogging tools.
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Ektron Markup Language (new in version 7.0)
CMS400.net’s Ektron Markup Language (EkML) makes it easy for web developers and site administrators to manage the formatting and presentation of dynamic content elements using simple and familiar HTML markup.
Prior to the introduction of EkML technology, this level of format control was only achievable using an XSLT. Now, a developer can link EkML files to a page’s individual server controls. These files handle the formatting of dynamic tag elements related to the controls simply by enclosing them in standard HTML formatting tags. This means that someone with basic HTML skills can apply dynamic formatting without using an XSLT.
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Content Review (new in version 7.0)
A new content review control is now available that allows you to provide descriptive ratings with moderation. Provide a dynamic rating tool for your users, members, and public visitors. Determine how good your content is by the people reading it. Run reports to determine the highest rated content or assets and tweak poorly rated content to achieve optimal ratings.
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Starter Sites (new in version 7.0)
Starter Sites are fully functional sample websites designed to help you learn CMS400.NET and achieve common web deployment scenarios. Each sample is complete and well documented so you can use the code as a baseline to jump start your web development projects immediately!
Starter Sites are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business processes or sets of tasks for organizations of any size.
Get your CMS400.NET site up and operational today using the following Starter Site examples.
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Starter Applications (new in version 7.0)
Starter applications are powerful applications that are built on the Ektron CMS400.NET engine. They leverage Ektron CMS400.NET's flexible API made available via its SDK. Starter applications are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business processes for organizations of any size, but are flexible enough to meet your custom requirements.
These starter applications are shipped open source and are free of charge. They work out of the box and if needed, can easily be extended. Starter applications are a perfect starting point for building your own web application. The only requirement is that a CMS400.NET base install exist on your server.
Ektron starter applications add great value to your existing CMS400.NET investment.
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System Requirements
Supported Browsers
- For Viewing: All major browsers
- For Editing: Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher, Netscape 7, Mozilla FireFox 1.1
Web Server Operating System
- Microsoft Windows 2003/2000/XP Professional
Web Application Server
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
Web Server
- Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 or higher
Databases Supported
- Microsoft SQL Server, MSDE, Oracle
Hardware
- Any IBM-PC compatible system, MAC OS
Web Development Tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
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