Create CMS by People Network allows non-technical users to manage and update their website content quickly and easily. Create also has ‘built-in’ search engine optimization, guaranteeing enhanced results in major search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo without any extra cost. You can see this from one our case studies detailing the climb in search engine rankings of several of our clients.
Scalability is the backbone of Create CMS, allowing businesses to start with a powerful ‘base’ system. Its easy ‘add on’ facility allows further functionality to be added as and when needed, such as Ecommerce, Events management, Document Management/sharing, media management, events management and more.
Some of the features of Create CMS include:
Page Manager
This module is the ‘back-bone’ to the whole system. From here, users can:- Add / Edit / Delete content and web pages by the click of a button
- Edit your content using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get!) web page editor (similar to editing a text document within a text editing programme such as Microsoft Word ®).
- Add hyperlinks, download links, images, text and Flash content easily
- Rename web pages
- Add Keywords and Meta tags for search engine optimization
- Backup and archive any changes made to any page
- Restore old content by the click of button
- Create/manage the navigation structure quickly and easily
- Hide web pages from public view
- Enable and Disable web pages from Public view
- Set which template design you wish to use on any page (allowing different designs / colour schemes on any web page)
News Manager
- Add / Edit / Delete news articles
- Archive news stories including ‘Auto Archive’ feature. Set a predefined date for the news article to be automatically archived by Create CMS
- Hide news story from Public view
- Display news items on any web page
Ecommerce manager
- Add / Edit / Delete Categories
- Set keywords / meta description for categories
- Set different design templates per category or use default design template
- Add / Edit / Delete Products
- Standard Products – Can sell products online
- Sub Products – products within a product
- Bundles – Group several products together creating a product bundle. This bundle can have a discounted rate assigned to it
Other product features
- Set different prices for different groups of users
- Set an ‘on-sale’ price for each different type of user
- Can set rules for purchasing products (I.E. If you buy 5, the unit price will be £0.99 instead of £1.19)
- Stock control
- Automated invoice feature – send invoice as an email or user can download a PDF version within their account. All invoices generated within Create CMS can be imported into SAGE accounts package
- Can set promotional codes for discounts on orders / certain products
- Can set associated products (for up-selling / marketing purposes)
- Administration can view detailed statistics on purchases (who ordered what and when).
- Can display multiple images per product
- Order history stored on the website, so users can see what they have purchased through their password protected account area
- Re-order feature including any failed or previously ordered items
- Recommend products to a friend feature
- Integrate into online payment gateways easily: paypal, Netbanx, protx, streamline etc
Form Builder Manager
Create CMS’s Form builder has been developed to allow an administrator to easily build online forms to capture user’s details. The content of any completed form can be emailed to a predefined email address set by the administrator.All forms that are created can be easily added to any web page. Create drop down boxes, radio buttons for (multiple choice) and input boxes.
This module allows an administrator to build any type of form such as:
- Contact us
- Feedback form
- Questionnaire
- Newsletter subscription
All successfully completed form data that a user completes is emailed to the predefined email address set by the administrator; but is also stored in Create CMS’s database. This allows an administrator to download the information captured by the form, into an Excel ® spreadsheet.
Banner Manager
Advertise products and services, including third party advertisements (such as Adsense ®) within your website.Easily upload your banners or add your snippets of code from third party suppliers and place your advertisements anywhere on your website. Link to any web page or website.
Create rotating banner advertisements by creating ‘banner groups’. Create CMS can randomly display these adverts (and / or cycle through the group of adverts) on the web page that you wish them to appear on.
Types of banners include:
- Image
- Flash ®
- Text (type sentences that you wish to appear on the website)
- Third party code (eg Adsense ®)
User Manager
The User Manager allows an administrator to set permissions for every user of the website. This means categories can be setup to stop users from gaining access to the administration section of the website and sections / web pages of the live website.Users can be allowed to have access to elements of every module or access to just one or two etc. Within each module, there is functionality to Add/Edit and Delete certain elements of website. This obviously could be a concern therefore users can be given permission to Add or Edit the website but not allowed to Delete or Publish content.
An administrator can also set permissions to stop users from gaining access to web pages of the website. If a user does not have permission to view a web page, they must ‘login’ to the website with their own unique username and password controlled by the administrator of the site.
Each users’ details can be edited by the administrator of the site, including downloading their details into an Excel ® spreadsheet.
Bulk Email Manager
The Bulk Email Manager allows an administrator to create newsletter templates and easily email their database of users through Create CMS.Each email that is sent out can be tracked and re-sent. Multiple newsletter templates can be created and stored within the system.
OTHER modules included in Create CMS include:
- Automatic Search Engine Optimization: for high rankings in all major search engines
- Ask the expert
- File Manager: for document upload
- Media Centre Manager: for video and sound upload
- Events Manager
- Gallery: for image/portfolio upload
- News and Archive Manager: to manage and archive news items
- Template Manager: to arrange different templates
- Property Manager: for use in property portfolios
- Tender/Job Board: matchmaker between buyers and suppliers
- Weblog manager: for writing and maintaining blogs
