< back Content management system - Graydot CMS
Graydot has developed a powerful
content management system (CMS) over a number of years whilst engaging in
web development. A proven scalable, flexible and standards compliant facility which is entirely geared around search engine optimisation (SEO). It’s capabilities range from managed hosted systems to highly tailored deployed solutions, meeting the most demanding requirements of any sector.
Some of the unique functionalities include:
Login and navigation:
Online web solutions must be able to deliver the excitement of the creative concept and provide functionality that has punch.
The tenants for success here are clear; a web management solution must deliver performance across the board, providing clear benefits no matter what questions are asked of it by your web team or your clients. This experience begins right at the front door, users being greeted with a simple to use interface, robust enough to handle heavy user loads whilst remaining highly flexible.
The CMS's role-based security enables workflow systems; administrators are able to control permissible actions based on each team member's role. Fine-grained, role-based security is important because it allows content creators and developers to interact with business managers by limiting them to the appropriate content access levels at different stages of a process. An unlimited number of users can be defined, each with rights to contribute to or have editorial control over designated sections of the web site. Users can be assigned to ‘Groups’ and rights assigned to those groups. The benefits from this form of user management are obvious, with larger clients looking to mange several projects over various domains; this flexibility comes into its own.
Multiple website management and page editing:
Here the CMS presents a 'big picture' view of the project at hand, allowing site designers to create an overall navigational model for the entire web site. The role-based security functionality ensures that your users are given the necessary tools to dynamically manage projects, day in day out. All too often cutting edge technology is notoriously difficult to use, resulting in users' constant reliance on their IT department for support and guidance. The Graydot CMS is committed to providing our customers with a facility that is not only powerful but also easy to use. The CMS uses the same basic skill set content editors need for standard office applications such as Microsoft Word, with no requirements for coding or programming skills. Every aspect of the CMS has been designed to ensure the screen and menu layouts are logical and intuitive, with context sensitive help available on any screen, on any feature if needed!
The entire concept is template driven these being conceived at the outset of a project. Your content is delivered encased within these fully customisable templates, giving you a seamless join between the CMS interface, your content, and what your visitors' experience. The use of templates and style sheets also ensures that your organisation's branding is maintained consistently throughout the web site by separating web site content from the presentation of that content. It also allows for rapid duplication of pages based on selected templates without the need for the development house to be involved.
The CMS is built on a solid version control platform which allows for multiple version page saving and rollback functionality. Previewing changes and deployment of new content has never been this easy! The CMS is essentially an Internet Applications Framework that combines advanced yet easy to use CMS functionality with an extensive library of Internet Application Modules. These Application Modules enable clients to manage many different types of content within a single CMS system which allows organisations to quickly build and easily maintain dynamic, personalised and sophisticated sites.
Bespoke tools:
The CMS has a diverse range of extra functionality which has been included over the years as a result of many requests from the diverse scope of clients and users who religiously depend on it to achieve their online business goals.
Graydot is committed to maximising our clients return on investment by not settling on the functionality that is pre-bundled within the content management software, but rather working toward a flexible architecture, providing a development framework that can scale and encapsulate diverse requirements. Examples of these additional functionalities include:
- Both customised and analogue stats reports.
- Track This Link, a clever piece of coding which is able to record visits to and from any hyperlink included through out a site.
- Asset Library, powerful asset manager with inbuilt image editor for a wide array of assets including imagery, office documents, flash files etc.
- Dynamic navigation & site map ordering tool allows clients to quickly order and integrate new pages into the site’s main navigational elements.
- The Graydot Table Editor interface is the power house upon which most of Graydot's CMS systems focus. At its core, the Editor basically acts as an easy way to view and query databases or tables within the database directly from the CMS making template modification and data access routine tasks.
