Content Management at its very best By Chris Hewitt Jul 20, 2007	Email page Printer Friendly Page

Why not try our demo JCMS on the site - simply go to http://www.jamcomm.com/website_content_management.html and try it for yourself! 

Advanced publish settings. Take full control over how and where your content is published. Plain HTML templates make it easy to customize the format, and the publishing lets you define:

• Where to publish your articles and categories
• Naming conventions for the published files
• How many headlines to show, and how to sort them
• A lot more!

Custom files, custom formats. JCMS has no limitations. Make a headlines file to include in other pages, create extra RSS feeds, publish an entire duplicate version of your site for hand-held devices, display articles in text-only formats...it's up to you!

Syndicate your content with RSS. Keep your visitors informed using an RSS feed generated by JCMS. Visitors who subscribe to your feed will be automatically notified of updates to your website. Additionally, other website owners can pick up your feed and showcase your headlines on their website. This keeps visitors coming back, and at the same time creates new traffic for your site!

Create an unlimited number of custom placeholders. With just a few clicks create your very own placeholders that can be used across your entire website. Use these placeholders for publishing information such as your company name, address, or copyright info. Want to change your copyright info? Simply update this information in JCMS. There's no need to make these changes to your HTML templates!

Create an unlimited number of article fields. JCMS supports an enhanced database field editor. This allows you to make use of an unlimited number of spare article fields. Need another field in the editor? Add it in a few clicks, and set up whatever error checking you want - JCMS does the rest. Want a second field for uploading attachments? Want to add a drop down of author names? Need a field for inputting article subtitles?

JCMS can do it! JCMS's sleek and intuitive interface makes creating new fields quick and simple. Choose from a variety of field types (text field, text boxes, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) , drop downs, radio buttons, checkboxes, upload fields, and more)

Require input validation (e.g. limit the number of characters that can be entered, user may not leave field blank, etc), Control error checking,  publish using any file type you want (.html, .php, .asp, .shtml). Like the quick load time of HTML?

Want to add a PHP or ASP script to your published files? Articles can be published with the file extension of your choice, allowing you to drop in whatever scripts and add-ons you want.

Bulk article deletion. Don't spend hours deleting individual articles one at a time. Delete a single unwanted article or delete hundreds of old and outdated articles with just one click.

Dynamic SSI and code parsing. Include code output by 3rd party server side scripts (PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, etc) in pages dynamically generated by JCMS's search engine script.

Auto-creates unique filenames for each article. Give your articles filenames that are relevant to their content. For example, an article titled "Keep Visitors Coming Back With RSS" will automatically be named "keep_visitors_coming_back_with_rss.html".

And if you aren't happy with the automatically created filename you can give your article its own custom filename (e.g. "why_use_rss.html"). · Preview your articles before publishing them to your website. Make sure everything is always perfect by previewing your articles before they are submitted for review or published live to your site.

With JCMS you can easily move data from flat-file to mySQL. If you're switching web servers, simply reference the mySQL data on the previous web server and have it moved to the new server. JCMS does it all for you!

Unlimited custom fields. Add new fields for users, articles, or categories, and give them useful placeholder names that are meaningful to you! Rather than being saddled with obscure placeholders, JCMS enables and encourages you to use naming conventions which make it easy to use.

User Features · Intuitive & Stylish user interface. A streamlined interface gives you more of what you need and less of what you don't. It's designed to make even the most complex commands seem effortless, and make the most common every day tasks (like creating an article) a simple one step process. · Email my password. Lost passwords are no problem. Easily retrieve your password by having JCMS email it right to you. · Advanced WYSIWYG editing. JCMS provides content authors with simple yet powerful editing capabilities.

If you've worked with a word processor (like Microsoft Word) you will have no trouble using JCMS. Users can easily make quick updates to your content with the fast-loading WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor. · Cross-browser WYSIWYG. JCMS's WYSIWYG editor is cross-browser and platform independent. Whether you're using Internet Explorer or Firefox, Windows or Mac OS X, you can format your article content without any HTML coding. · User access levels. JCMS supports four different user types: Writers, Trusted Writers, Editors, and Administrators. Writers can draft articles, submitting them for review before they are published.

Trusted writers can create articles live, and can also manage their own articles, editing or changing status. Editors can review articles, make appropriate changes, and approve for them to go live. Administrators manage the entire program by creating new user accounts, approving articles, or writing their own. · Grant writers access to specific categories. Individual writers and editors can be granted access to all categories or specific categories only.

Give your sports writers access to the sports category and related subcategories, while at the same time preventing them from editing articles in the business category. · Editorial workflow management. Your writers draft articles and submit them for review. The new article is "pending" until you (or your editor) approves it. Editors can review articles, make any necessary changes, and then post live to your site. · Article update alerts by email. You and your Editors can keep on top of the content by email notifications.

As soon as an article is submitted or modified, accounts configured with notification are instantly informed of the changes. Best of all, not only do you decide which users are notified, but you can specify what categories and events (added, updated, erased) will send out email alerts. Category Management Features · Create an unlimited number of categories & subcategories.

With JCMS there's no limit to the number of subcategories and categories you can create. · Organize your categories into subcategories. Create a parent "Sports" category and list related categories under it (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, etc). · Multi-category articles Your articles are not limited to just one category - add each article to an unlimited number of categories! · Tons of additional category features.

Create categories the way you want them. o Accommodate any depth of subcategories. o Customize your navigation from 5 different subcategory formats, and create a unique look by tailoring the HTML templates. o Publish your articles across entire category branches or restrict them to specified categories. o Sort the categories into any order you like. o Hide categories to remove them temporarily from your website. Great for making revisions to the site. o Search for categories in the administration system to access them quickly. o Customize the number of articles and headlines displayed for each category. o Create customized filenames for categories to make search friendly and more readable URLs (e.g. /news.html). o Upload a category image for each category. o Create your own custom category fields, such as an introduction at the top of each category page, or custom meta tags for the category.

There's no limit on the number or type of category fields you can have. o Use different templates for each category to further customize the look of your website. (e.g. Your "Sports" section can look completely different from your "Local News" section).

Search Engine Optimization Features · Static URLs. Many search engines prefer static URLs over URLs loaded with query string variables (http://site.com/article.php?art=1&id=33&page=5), since they appear more permanent and stable. All of JCMS's articles, category indexes, and files are published with static URLs (e.g. http://www.yourwebsite.com/article_name.html). · Keyword relevant titles.

JCMS can be customized to load each of your articles with unique and relevant keywords (by default, using your Title for the article's filename). Major search engines have been known to give emphasis to pages with keyword relevant titles. · Google Sitemaps support.

Make your site more Google-friendly by having JCMS create a Google Sitemaps file for you. Google Sitemaps is a free service that instantly notifies Google when your website's content has been updated, meaning your site's newest articles and content are always indexed by the search engine. · Meta descriptions and keywords.

JCMS can easily be set up to include unique meta descriptions and keywords for each article and category page. Search Engines use your page's meta description to describe your site in their search results, so the more relevant (and compelling!) your description, the more likely a web surfer will click to visit your site from their search engine results. · Create keyword friendly URLs.

Because you can define what JCMS's categories and article pages are named, you can make your URLs keyword friendly. URLs that contain keywords are often given a higher ranking by search engines. So if you had an article named "Keep Visitors Coming Back With RSS" you could have the URL for the article be "http://www.yourwebsite.com/keep_visitors_with_rss.html".