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Here's an overview of previous versions:
The Design215 Site Manager 2.0 provides the ability to update content on your web site
using a number of simple online forms. It can be used to maintain photo galleries, articles,
stories, and blogs. It can be used to manage a product inventory, with different product lines,
models, prices, images, dimensions, and options for each product. It can be expanded with
any number of custom modules or "tabs".
Design215 Site Manager is an extremely flexible system because it can be tailored by your
webmaster to perform practically any type of management task. Unlike other content management
systems, Site Manager does not create a web site for you with templates. It helps you create,
organize, and store content for any web site, whether the site is html or flash,
or any combination of the two. Configuration of your site requires basic knowlege of PHP
and mySQL but there are no restrictions on how your content is displayed. Using the
Site Manager itself requires no programming knowlege and only the most basic data entry
skills, easily handled by any member of your staff.
Design215 Site Manager is installed in a folder on your web site. It can be accessed from any
computer with an internet connection and runs in every major browser on both Macintosh and
Windows. Online access simplifies the workflow of maintaining live content on your site.
No software installation is required on individual workstations and no synchronization of data
is required between them. For example, your site could be updated from several locations; an
office workstation running Windows 2000, a Macintosh laptop using a wireless connection
in a coffee shop, or a home computer running Windows XP. In each situation, the only
software required is a web browser.
With any content management system, user access is important. Design215 Site Manager provides
several levels of access to ensure maximum productivity and safety. Each user account
consists of a username, a password, and an email address. Passwords are stored in an
encrypted format and cannot be read or recovered, even by the admin. The email address is
used to send a reset code to the user so they can enter a new password if they forget
their previous one. Using this method, no passwords are sent through email. There are four
types of user accounts; admin, managers, guest, and registered users.
All logins to the Site Manager are recorded and include the creation date of each
user, the last time they logged in, the last IP address they logged in from, and
the total number of times they have logged in. Log information can only be changed
by someone with access to the server.
Design215 Site Manager does not use templates. The administrator creates any number
of categories and subcategories based on the needs of the web site itself. Once this
outline is created, anyone can enter and maintain the actual data. The simplest example would
be to create a main category called "Site" and a subcategory for each page of the site.
One of the subcategories could be named "Homepage" and would contain the text for that
page. The design of the page itself is up to you and your designer and could be html, flash,
xml, or anything else you choose.
What if you have a list of items, like a "links" page, that you want to keep updated using
the Manager? Simple. You could create a new category called "Links" and then each
subcategory would be a new link in your list. For each link, you would enter a name and url,
and optionally, a group name, a full description, and an icon or logo.
In the Preferences tab, you can name the fields for each category, making it easier for the
people who have to enter the data.
Many sites have groups of images or image "galleries". These could be catalogs
of product images or collections of artwork. Design215 Site Manager works with
almost any image gallery configuration. Images and cooresponding thumbnails can
be uploaded to a single folder or to separate folders for each category. Any number of
images can be assigned to any subcategory. Each image has its own title and
description fields, as well as a field for cross linking to another page or product.
Say for example, that you sell used cars and trucks. You would create a category called
"Cars". Each subcategory would be one of the cars you have for sale. You would enter
year, make and model, a headline, the price, and a full description of the car. Finally,
you would switch to the images tab and upload any number of images for that car. Each
image could have a caption underneath it. If you created thumbnails, you could have
visitors click each thumbnail to see a larger image. You would follow the same procedure
for trucks if you wanted to keep cars and trucks separated for organizational purposes.
Design215 Site Manager has been designed to be modular. Even though the system of
categories, subcategories, and images is very flexible, your business may have specific
needs that require a custom module. Additional modules appear as new tabs in the
main menu. Site Manager comes with a couple of default modules and we are working on
new modules for the next release. We can also build custom modules for your company
for an additional fee. Here are some of the optional Site Manager modules:
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