Features
A customised content management and website administration system, which allows information owners to become web publishers.
Trying to manage a large website without the right tools can result in content, design, and schedules that are out of control.
That is the reason that we have developed Site Control.
Benefits that our customers have reported include being easy to use, great for working from different places, much better control of the content, better reporting, and most importantly – the webmaster can finally take their holidays without the world falling apart!
More information is published by the information owners, meaning content on the website is relevant, current, and more responsive to the audience.,without sacrificing the design!
The website users report having a better looking, more consistent website, better search, more intuitive navigation, and more up to date site.
1 - The solution can deliver significant time & cost benefits
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Content management system easy to update via browsers – no special software needed
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Interface is very easy to use and intuitive
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You will be able to manage any and all aspects of the site content via the database including pictures, Word docs, PDFs, multimedia content, and programmed functions such as bulletin boards, forums, email lists, etc
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Very cost effective way to maintain the site in-house
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Absolute minimum of training required
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Full, customised manuals provided
2 - This is a tailored solution – not an off the shelf package
- Custom website design to suit your organisation
- Custom interface design to suit your organisation – we build it to suit your needs, not just try to fit our model
- More than one design possible for different users or separate sites or areas, eg: internet and intranet combination, or many different sites with one administration interface.
- The design is template driven (using templates and style sheets), and so is easy to change or re-order as needed
- The site can grow as and when required, which is great when you want to implement the solution in stages
- If you have special requirements, new features can be programmed to suit your needs at a reasonable cost
3 - Vmedia's versatile Site Control and has many sophisticated features for site and document management
- Caters for a very large variety of file formats to be uploaded, stored, linked to and housed within the website
- Allows you to add pages or sections as needed via the content administration
- New pages automatically and dynamically added to the navigation and search
- You can rename or reassign pages or sections using the administration interface
- Information within the system can be exported or tabled for reports
- Interface provides tools for site administration like database backup, generating reports, search, find orphaned files, password management and more
- Metadata authoring built in, complies to SA Govt standards AGLS, Dublin Core
- Alt-tag fields built in for images to ensure compliance with Web Protocols
- Notification of document expiry
- Automatic sitemap generator
4 - Large organisations or geographically dispersed groups can all contribute, yet maintain order and control
- You can delegate publishing tasks to groups and individuals, yet maintain strict control over what they can do and what they can access. Groups can only see and modify the areas they have permissions for when in the Content Management System
- The administration of permissions is part of the browser based interface
- Individuals, as well as having access to certain areas, can have permission to certain tasks relevant to their authority or skills
- Levels of access and authorisation required can be tailored to suit your needs
- A sophisticated system keeps track of the permissions, with each member needing only one password to access all of their authorised areas (this can include forums, special project areas, e-learning areas etc)
5 - Technically very robust, Site Controlhas been developed for the most common web publishing environment
- Suitable for internet, intranet or extranet
- Open source PHP MySQL program for maximum compatibility
- Suits Linux, BSD, Unix , SGI or Sun, running Apache server software
- Can be stand-alone or virtual web server, in-house or externally hosted
- Secure site areas for log-in and administration
- Can be integrated with our V-shop e-commerce solution, forum, email lists, bulletin boards, calendars, flash or other multimedia, etc.
- Generates each page with a unique, bookmarkable and traceable URL
- Can be searchable by search engine utilities such as spiders and robots
- Comprehensive site search facility built in
This solution has been successfully deployed on government agency sites, and has been specifically designed to comply with current SA Government web publishing guidelines, and to acheive Bobby compliance.