Features
Content Management System (CMS)
A 15 page updateable web site Content Management System (CMS)
The LightOrange CMS content management system allows non technical people to have complete control over the content and structure of their web site at any time and from any location using their web browser. It's easy to use and secure.
Proven
LightOrange CMS is a version of S8080's Enterprise CMS technology in use with many of our existing clients including Department of Health, NHS, HM Cabinet Office, South Wales Police, Visit Wales, Lee Valley Park, Department of Work and Pensions, ACAS and many many more.
Features
Your CMS website will have 15 blank (800 pixel width) pages and provides an easy to use administration system that lets you update any section of the site at any time and from anywhere in the world using a standard web browser (using a PC with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer). The CMS has a familiar and user-friendly interface –‘what you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG) online word processing facility. It really is just like using your favourite Word processor.
The CMS lets you add new sections and pages to your website, and unlimited text and pictures to all pages (If you need more pages, you can just buy a few more). In addition, other information like keywords, metadata descriptions (for search engines), and links can be easily added to each page.
Depending on the layout you choose, you can also have a
special Flash banner on your homepage that animates a series of your photos or graphics letting you show your products or explain your services to your viewers in an engaging way.
The navigation areas and your branding will remain consistent throughout your site, and you will be able to add the following to your pages:
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Headings
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Text (bold, italic,underlined, etc - most of the things you can do in Word)
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Images with captions (including automatic image resizing to make sure they load quickly)
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Bullet lists
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Highlighted text
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Metadata (for search engines)
Some of the other features include:
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Secure administration systems with one username and password
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Printer friendly pages
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Ability to move pages around in your website structure
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A fill-in contact form that emails the information to a designated email address
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Text can wrap around images
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Integration into Google Analytics for web traffic monitoring - showing all sorts of helpful stats on the people that use your site
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Human readable URL's / addresses to help search engine optimisation (SEO) and promotions
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Accessible to government standards and compliant with W3C standards (HTML and CSS)
Maintaining your website with our CMS is very easy and can be easily done by anyone who is a basic user of Microsoft Word or similar word processing software.
CMS benefits
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It is very easy to use - no need for extensive user training - just follow our simple online
QuickStart guide
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It is powerful in the way the content and structure of the site can be created and amended
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Complete and ongoing control over the site content without the need for technical skills or web designers
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The administration facility is accessible through Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 - you can work on your website from any internet connected standard computer giving maximum flexibility and removing the need for applications to be installed
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It generates a site map automatically
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It creates search engine friendly pages giving you a head start with Google and the other search engines
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You can change you design whenever you like (if you re-brand for example), ask us for details
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You can add various Plug-ins as you need them, giving you News, Events, Bilingualism, Forums, Polls, Quizzes, and Secure Areas
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It is built by
S8080 and is based on the same technology that our larger clients use
eMarketing Plug-in
Send up to 2,500 emails per month
The LightOrange CMS eMarketing Plug-in lets you create, send and manage online email campaigns.
A simple import facility (CSV file) lets you upload your list of email addresses to the system. These addresses will then be used to produce targeted email communications and deliver personalized e-mail messages. The emails can be sent as plain text or formatted with text and pictures.
The easy to use eMarketing Plug-in has the following features:
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Send up to 2500 email a month
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Has a familiar and user friendly interface - WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) online word processing
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Supports copy and paste and content importing from Microsoft Office applications
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Lets each campaign's effectiveness be pre-tested with a selected number of emails being sent to you and your colleagues through a test broadcast
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Allows email addresses to be easily imported into the system using the universal CSV format
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Provides an unsubscribe mechanism to keep you list clean and viable
Please visit
www.ico.gov.uk for advice on email marketing law and best practice.
Blog Plug-in
Engage your visitors
A blog is an online journal that you can use to talk informally about your news, industry tips, gossip or events you are holding – anything goes on a blog! You don’t even need to call it a blog if you don’t want to – you can use it for your organisation’s news.
The home page of the website will include a blog panel, this will list the three or four most recent blog entries you have added in date order. Each entry in the home page panel will include a title (clickable to the full blog details) and a summary.
You can add as many blog pages as you have the energy to write.
The blog details page
A user selecting a blog entry from the home page or archive page will be taken to the blog details page. The blog details page will display:
The blog archive page.
The blog archive page will list blogs in date order, most recent first. The blog title and summary paragraph will be shown.
Blog management facility
Here you can see a complete listing of all blog entries and search for, add, edit, delete and categorise them.
Site statistics Plug-in
To help you analyse your web traffic, we integrate ‘Google Analytics’ into your website - you will be provided with a login and password to access your Google Analytics statistics on line. For further information on the features please refer to:
www.google.com/analytics/en-GB/
At its simplest, Google Analytics will tell you how many visitors your site is getting. If you want to dig deeper, you can find your most popular pages, search engines and phrases, referring sites, countries and regions, time spent on the site, stats on operating systems and the browsers used.
If you have advertising banners or sponsored areas on your site, you can use your analytics to find out which areas of your site are the busiest and charge a bit more for the sponsorship of those pages.
Accessibility
What web standards do we build to?
All of the web designs we create are built to a minimum WAI A (Single A) level of accessibility in CSS. That means it’s accessible to everyone - including those with slow internet connections, Stone Age computers or people with certain disabilities - and well built to government standards.
The LightOrange CMS gives you all of the tools you need to make sure your website stays accessible and we provide an online guide on writing accessible web text , allowing as many people as possible to be able to use and enjoy your website.
Search engine friendly
LightOrange CMS has been built from the ground up to be search engine friendly. We are
not talking about sneaky little hacks that try to fool Google into giving you a high ranking and then once discovered, will punish you by throwing you back down the rankings – we’ll leave that to the quick fix cowboys. We are talking about legitimate techniques and great coding that give you long term, high quality organic search rankings based on relevancy, not dirty tricks.
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Human friendly URL's - real web addresses, not huge, unmemorable URL's ending in gobbledygook
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Google Sitemaps file - a special file we create that helps make sure that Google knows about all of the pages in your site and can index them (this is nice cheap
optional extra)
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High quality CSS and HTML coded pages built to the latest web standards, that are easily crawled by Google and other search engines
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Extensive metadata for each of your pages - add relevant keywords, descriptions and page titles
And don’t forget, you can use your free Google Analytics Plug-in to see exactly what search terms people are typing in to find you and increase your search engine optimisation even further.
The benefits in a nutshell
Why LightOrange CMS is so brilliant...
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Accessible and search engine friendly
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Incredibly easy to use - just like 'Word'
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A complete, professional email marketing toolkit
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Publish your news and thoughts using your blog
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Get free, up-to-date website statistics
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Generate revenue through your website through discreet referrals
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Update your site - You have complete control over the navigation, text and photographs on your site and you can add to it or change it whenever you like
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eMarketing campaigns - manage and send your own eMarketing campaigns and eNewsletters using a tried, tested and professional email tool
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Proven technology - Our Content Management System (CMS) technology is being used by huge organisations including South Wales Police and Ryder Cup Wales
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Project management - you get your own named PRINCE2 qualified Project Manager for the duration of the project. That's a real person with a direct dial telephone number!
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Brief our designers - Our designers will contact you directly to discuss the design, colours, logos and pictures you would like on your site