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Content Authoring in SongBirdCMS spares content editors the bother of graphical formats of HTML web presentation. Content creators merely enter their content through standard forms, which is saved in a centralized content database.
SongBird’s dynamic content system allows content creators and editors to create and manage web pages and e-mail messages, customized for each individual, with a WYSIWIG HTML editor.
The fully integrated Document Management System provides web masters the ability to store versions, categorize content and provide limited access (via permissions) to documents and content.
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| Page Editing Tools: |
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Simplified, WYSIWIG editing tools that generate HTML code using MS Word and allow formatting and preview. |
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A visual editor for those inexperienced with HTML programming. |
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An HTML editor for experienced editors with the facility to define hyperlinks within the site and outside it. |
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Customized style sheets that permit the choice of fonts, styles and colors and standardize them across the site to lend it an uniform appearance. |
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Facility to invoke external files for viewing. E.g. Word and PDF documents. |
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| Navigation Manager - Features: |
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Instant response to changes in site structure. |
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Dynamic restructuring of Navigation and Menu Structure. |
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A tree structure navigation which facilitates modification, deletion, promotion or demotion of child and parent links, up to four generation up and down. |
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Pre-built navigation components that allow a variety of display formats for navigation. |
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Automatic generation of site maps, index pages and table of contents. |
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| Link Manager - Features: |
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A System driven process of creating links that ensures all links are active and functioning. |
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Automatic updation of embedded links when a page is edited. |
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Appearance of links consistent with predefined Style sheets. |
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URLs for all pages to facilitate search. |
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| Work Manager - Features: |
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| SongbirdCMS’s unique architecture aids efficient workflow management through linear or non-linear workflow processes. It allows, |
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Content creators to enter material reviewed by editors and managers before publishing on the Web site or through e-mail messages. |
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Teams of content developers to enter, review, and update content based on secured access. |
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Definition of different roles, based on group settings and ownership. |
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Content creators in multiple locations and belonging to the same group to create or edit content as per defined access privileges. |
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| Staging Server & Approval – Features: |
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Preview content before publishing, make necessary modifications and test them. |
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Publish immediately or defer publication for a certain period or until completion of activities |
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Restrict access through user permissions and roles |
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Track user activity, data and log of modifications using a detailed audit trail |
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| Widget Nests |
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| A key component of SongBird CMS, a widget nest. |
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Is stored in the database once and referenced by other pages in the website. This implies that content such as an advertisement panel that is common for all pages, when edited, is automatically reflected everywhere. |
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Provides attributes, that is, presentation parameters, which can be associated with files stored in the database. |
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Outputs content stored in a database and places it on a template. |
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Can include all types of content such as text, images, documents, video and sound files. A caption may be displayed with an image. Images can be clicked for an enlarged view or for a link to an internal or external URL. |
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Allows controlled access through secure user permissions. |
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