Kentico Content Management Features
- WYSIWYG editing in a browser-based user interface
- Dynamic site structure and site map
- Customizable workflow and versioning
- Content scheduling
- Content/design separation
- Customizable document fields and metadata
- Multiple languages in a single website
- File management
Security
- Forms and Windows authentication
- Membership support (sign up, member management)
- Customizable roles
- Document-level permissions
- Secured pages with personalized content
Website
- Flexible, dynamically generated navigation
- Highly customizable menus (drop-down, tree, UL list menu, tabs)
- Full-text search
- SEO support and friendly (smart) URLs
- Web standards: XHTML, table or CSS layout, WAI
- Easy deployment from development to live server (export/import whole website)
- Multiple sites managed in a single installation of code and database
CMS Options
Blogs: The blogs module allows you to publish personal or corporate blogs. You can fully customize the access rights to the blog and let single or multiple users add blog posts. A single website can contain any number of blogs. The blog posts can be retrieved through RSS feeds. Site visitors can add comments to your posts; the comments may be optionally moderated. The design of the blog is fully customizable with your own graphics and custom content.
Booking System: The booking system module allows you to display an event calendar together with a registration form. You can use it for off-line and online events, such as conferences, web casts, presentations, or community meetings. You can restrict the registration period and the capacity of the event. Once the visitors register, you can manage their registrations in the administration interface and send them a mass e-mail with event updates.
Content Staging: The content staging module allows you to synchronize content between the staging (development/QA/testing) server and production server. It adds another level of control over published content. With content staging, the document life cycle looks like this:
- Document created
- Approved through the workflow process
- Document published on the staging server
- Review and synchronization by site manager - approval of staged content
- Document published on the live server
The synchronization also allows you to restrict the administration interface only to your local (secured) server, while the production server will only display the content. The synchronization is ensured using a secured web service.
Event Calendar: The event calendar allows you to display content in the calendar style. It can be used for events, for news, articles, blog posts, or any other document that contains a date field for binding with calendar.
Forums: The forums module allows you to integrate forums or comments functionality into your website to build on-line communities. You can create either pre-defined forums displayed on specified pages or you can create "ad-hoc" forums bound to a particular document that allows visitors to post comments on the article or ask questions about the product or service.
Geomapping: The geomapping module allows you to combine web content with maps. The module integrates Google Maps which allows you to display any content on a map. All you need to do is to add geographic location (longitude and latitude) to the content.
Image Gallery: The Image Gallery module allows you to quickly publish an online gallery of images such as product photos or photos of your team. All you need to do is to place the Image Gallery web part on the page, configure its parameters, and upload the files. The files can be uploaded through the browser or using the batch file import module.
The gallery can display image thumbnails and detailed images in the required size. The thumbnails are generated automatically, so you do not need to resize them manually.
Newsletters: The newsletter module helps you quickly set up a newsletter, display a sign up form, and author newsletter issues. You can create either a static newsletter that is created manually by the newsletter editor or you can configure a dynamic newsletter that sends the page of the given URL to all subscribers at a specified interval.
Both types of newsletters may contain external links and images. You can also customize the emails that are sent to the subscribers when they subscribe or unsubscribe.
On-line Forms: With the CMS BizForms module, you can easily create and publish simple online forms without programming code. All you need to do is define form fields and add the form on your page. This task can be achieved by advanced end user administrators without programming or database knowledge.
Polls: The polls module allows you to publish polls on your website to receive visitor opinions and feedback. Each poll may contain any number of answers and you can choose whether the visitor can choose only one answer or multiple answers. You can choose if any visitor, authenticated users, or only members in chosen roles can vote. You can configure the polls so that the poll displays the results only after the user votes or the poll doesn't display the results to site visitors at all.
Reporting: The reporting module is a universal sub-system for creating reports from data stored in the CMS database. It's used for the Web Analytics module and it can also be used for reports on documents in the content repository, sales in the e-commerce module, most active forum posters, and other custom reports you can create. You can design the layout of your report and insert a column chart, pie chart, table or scalar value that displays data specified by your SQL query.
Wiki: The Wiki module (also called User Contributions) enables site visitors to create content directly on your website, without having access to the CMS administration interface.
Web Farm Support: CMS comes with native web farm support for load balancing throughout the server system.
Web Analytics: Web Analytics is a crucial part of your online marketing strategy. The application gives you information about your visitors and about their interaction with your website.
This module allows you to track website visitors and their behavior. You can get the following statistics on a yearly, monthly, daily, and hourly basis:
- Visits
- Page views
- Downloads
- Invalid pages
- Referring URLs
- Conversions
- Campaigns
- Browser types
- Countries