Allows one or more site administrators to maintain a website without specialised tools or knowledge of HTML/CSS
Familiar tree interface for exploring content structure
Single click from any content page to its editing interface
Drag and drop to re-arrange content order
WYSIWYG editor for long-form content
Search by keyword or find content by data type
Image and Video Handling
Upload images inline within the admin interface, with support for multiple file selection and drag-and-drop
Uploaded images are automatically filed in the site’s folder structure
On-demand resizing, cropping and rotation of uploaded images, with the output cached for best performance
Embed inline video players from popular third-party services at any size, using the clip’s URL only
Support for normalised image output, enabling square and rectangular aspect ratios to be displayed with consistent visual weight
Built-in ‘hotspotting’ of uploaded images, allowing metadata to be attached to points or bounding boxes within the image
NEW Support for ‘retina’ images using srcset to automatically serve hi-res images to hi-DPI devices
Workflow
Any number of administrator approval levels configurable by implementer
Default setup allows for ‘draft’ and ‘published’ content modes
Preview draft/unpublished content as it will appear once published
Content may be automatically added or removed from a site at pre-determined times
Ability to re-use (or move) content between sections by sharing (or moving) ‘objects’
NEW Support for multiple administrators and page/object locking to prevent accidental overriding of another editor’s changes
NEW Audit history maintained for all editing actions, including a ‘diff’-style view to identify changes between versions
User Management
Comprehensive user management and reporting module
Expose editable account pages with any number of additional fields
Confirm new user accounts via email/URL workflow
Automated token generation/redemption for enabling user registration by unique code
Push registration information and updates to MailChimp or Sumo Pro to keep eDM lists in sync
Modular Approach
Flexible blog, commenting and forum modules
Comprehensive form validation, including multi-page forms
Google Maps module for adding location data to objects
Geo-location module for targeting content to user’s location
Shopping cart and checkout module, with integration points for Payment Express, PayPal and Stripe, order tracking, inventory support, sales reports, automated receipts, multiple currencies and more.
Integrates with Sumo (and other third-party platforms) for email campaign management
NEW Social module for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (enables republishing of content from these platforms using your look and feel, instead of having to use each platform’s native widgets)
Compression and Performance
Performance-focused approach for optimal content delivery
Utilises YSlow’s recommendations for server performance tuning
Automatic gzipping of all site assets and markup
Built-in minification and concatenation of CSS and JavaScript assets
Parallelised download of site assets via multiple subdomains
Clustering of data and assets across multiple servers
NEW Support for storing site assets in an external CDN such as Amazon S3
Security
User-based administrator logins with access-level control
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection in forms engine
Successfully passed several audits prior to corporate deployments
Reports and Tools
Implementer can create reports based on site transactions and analytics
Import and export site data via XLS files
Interface to upload files and image assets
FTP access for high-volume asset uploads
Multiple Languages
Any number of additional languages configurable by implementer
Automatically choose language to show appropriate content to visitors based on their locale setting, or allow the visitor to choose their preferred language from available options
Ability to display alternative page layouts and navigation options to individual regions
Full internationalisation and UTF-8 support in both editing interface and site templates
Administrator control to display any combination of additional languages as fields within the admin interface
