All SMC Features

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E-Commerce The SMC has a fully functional e-commerce suite built in to accomplish the most complex needs. Features include inventory, custom checkouts, order management, transaction processing (cc, paypal), and much more. Please see the E-commerce Solutions for more information.



Plug-in Builder The Plug-in builder is truly the differentiating factor between the SMC and other content management systems. Since the Plug-in Management has lots of info, we have dedicated a whole section of the site to it.



RSS Feeds The exchange of information between web sites is enabled because of Really Simple Syndication, or RSS. Whether you are looking to pull data from another source(blogs, news, weather), or would like to publish information for others to subscribe, the SMC is fully capable of handling RSS in both directions.



Web Based Application Armed with an Internet connection and web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.), the power to control your web site content is yours. Simply navigate to your web site, log into the system, and let the web publishing begin!



Articles The Articles plug-in is the most flexible, yet powerful plug-in the SMC has to offer. Armed with a rich text editor(see WYSIWYG Editor), a majority of the content management tasks can be accomplished with this plug-in.



WYSIWYG Editor With a fully integrated rich text editor, you now have the ability to publish formatted content on your web pages without knowledge in programming languages such as HTML, CSS, XML, etc.



Form Builder Online forms have become essential for any web site. The SMC's form generator allows the average user to create powerful online forms. Provide the question text, format, and choices, and the SMC will generate all the code for you.



Template Management Through the use of HTML templates, designers create the look and feel of the site while content providers add content to specified areas of the page through easy to use forms.



Streaming Video The days of waiting 30 minutes for a video to download are quickly becoming obsolete. Easily embed video files in your content for the most interactive experience available.



Unlimited Navigation and Pages Once your templates are created, you can use them many times over to create unlimited pages and corresponding navigation. Whether your web site has 15 pages or 20,000 pages, the SMC can accomodate your needs.



Preview / Release The preview and release features provide increased site performance (page load times) in addition to offering you today's essential functions that traditional dynamic or database driven web sites cannot.



Content Sharing Easily share content across multiple pages within your site. Make a change to the content once, and the update is automatically made on all instances within the web site.



Flash and Content Management If you are looking to add a little life to the design of your web site, Flash is a great way to accomplish this. Traditional flash designs are usually associated with static content, but not with the SMC. Enable your flash applications to read dynamic content using the SMC.



Plug-in Management With your subscription to the SMC, you will gain access to an extensive library of plug-ins that can be used by all. Whether you are a property management company looking to display your properties, or a architect needing to show off your portfolio, the plug-in library is sure to have something that fits your needs. Browse through the library when you have a chance for a first hand look at all your options.



Image Resizing Automate the process of resizing your images as you transfer them to your site. Image sizes can be predetermined according to where they will be placed, or a specified height and width can be provided. We're not referring to simply changing the height and width value on the image tag either. There's nothing out there easier!



Search Engine Optimization (SEO) As content is added to your site, the SMC takes basic measures to make sure this content is optimized for the search engines. Examples might be link titles, page titles, page descriptions, elimination of broken links, creation of a site map, and many more. You will be a step ahead of the competition that did nothing, giving you a higher ranking on search terms related to your web site.



File Manager Every web site needs an area to upload, store, and reference images, PDFs and other downloadable documents? The SMC has a file manager built in that allows unlimited flexibility in managing documents online. You'll have yourself thinking you are browsing your computer for files.



User / Group Management With the user and group administration, you will have the ability to manage who has access to the system, and what content they can update. Page level administration allows you to restrict content providers to the pages you have granted them permissions. User access can even be restricted to individual items of content on the page.



URL Redirectors Web site URLs can get long, ugly, and hard to remember, making them virtually impossible to market or put in material you plan to leave with a client. With the Redirectors function, you can create a short, manageable URL that redirects the user to a page that might otherwise be buried in your site.



Web Statistics The ability to track who and when visitors are accessing your site is very important to your online success. How are users finding you? How many hits did each page get? Where are users exiting, or leaving the site? All these statistics will help your efforts to provide your users with the best experience possible.



User Tracking Once a user logs into the SMC, all their actions are logged to secure location. This allows the site administrator to view a log of all the actions that have taken place over a specified period of time. Who updated the home page? When was the Contact Form deleted? All these questions can be answered with the User Tracking.



Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) CSS is the latest technology available to web designers for controlling the style and layout of your web site. By using CSS in your SMC templates, you will realize the many advantages that CSS technology brings to the table.



XML Support Extensible Mark-up Language, or XML, is a technology that allows web content to be easily shared across the web. Whether you need to import 3rd party data, or publish an RSS feed, the SMC will support your XML needs.



Password Protected Pages The option to secure a page for authorized users is only a username and password away. The SMC allows you to specify which pages need to be accessible with a login, and which ones do not.



Auto Generated Site Map A site map has become essential for web sites requiring good results with search engine spiders. The SMC site map function allows search engine spiders to follow your navigation, and index all of the content on your pages.



Blogs / Forums An interactive experience with your users is becoming more and more important. The SMC has blog and forum plug-ins that can be used to promote conversation on your web site. Whether you need discussion on private issues, or are looking for community feedback, the Blog / Forum plug-ins can be extremely valuable.



Banners Looking for a way to rotate images on your site without investing in a Flash application, the Banner plug-in is what you are looking for. Although designed for use to place and track advertising on portal sites, the Banners plug-in has the flexibility to make your content management experience pleasant.



PHP Smarty Templating For the advanced user that needs to incorporate logic into page templates, the use of the Smarty template language will be quite useful. You can obtain more information on this powerful templating language at smarty.php.net.