Ektron is a leading developer of dot net content management systems. Their platform the CMS400.net is very widely used in the US and is gaining more and more ground in the UK and Europe. It’s not hard to see why when you look at what flexibility it offers website developers and the ease of use and flexibility ot offers end-users.
Ektron is an “out of the box” content management system
Ektron CMS 400.net is an all-in-one web content management platform that enables organisations to rapidly create, deploy and manage interactive web, intranet and extranet sites using its robust out-of-the-box functionality. With one easy-to-use, cost-effective application, organisations can do what they want on the Web, including developing rich, dynamic sites for personalised, two-way communication with visitors, building their brand and online presence, fostering community and attracting more repeat visits to increase business. Ektron is dedicated to ensuring the success of your web project by meeting the needs of everyone who interacts with your website. Ektron CMS lets you and your entire team does more of what you want on the Web. It has the following principle features:
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.
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.
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.
Search & Search Engine Optimisation
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 CMS 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.
Membership, Subscription & 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 they can subscribe to content on your site, personalise Web pages and even have HTML forms auto populate their information.
Blogging & Forums
Apply workflow to blog entries or use structured content for consistent blog postings. Commenting, calendars and RSS feeds are all automatically generated with no additional code. Build an online community of your own with forums. Allow anonymous postings or use ektron’s built-in membership model. Support all browsers with eWebWP, ektron’s Flash-based
WYSIWYG editor
Personalisation & Portals
Let your site visitors to build their own customised view of your web pages with a wide array of content options. You provide and manage the options, ensuring the allowed customisations 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 personalise their website experience. Your designers can also build “shared views” of your pages using the same functionality but changes are viewed by everyone.
Wiki Directory Content
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.
Taxonomy
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 categorised 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.
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.
Online 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.
Detailed 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. Ektron sites are also easily tagged for Google analytics or other analytic solutions such as Webtrends.
Ektron Markup Language - EkML
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. These files handle the formatting of dynamic tag elements related to the controls. Now, anyone with basic HTML skills can apply dynamic formatting without
using an XSLT.
Ektron CMS Developer SDK
The next-generation API makes it easier to develop and extend the CMS 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.
Ektron 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.
Ektron & SharePoint Intengration
Publish your SharePoint assets to your extranet, intranet or the Web using Ektron’s SharePoint Connector. The SharePoint Connector maximises your investment in SharePoint by allowing users to take full advantage of SharePoint’s collaborative workspace to create assets and the power of Ektron CMS to provide your site visitors with the type of
online experience that they demand.
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