Content Management System (CMS)

The Content Management System is web-based software that allows you to update your own website quickly and easily with no programming knowledge necessary.

• Easy to Use: You don't need to know any programming at all. If you use a word processor, then you can use this CMS.
• Content: Updating can be in the form of adding text, images, videos, flash animations, files such as PDFs and Word documents, etc.
• Templates: Have Hostnow or your graphic artist design your initial template or skin based on your company/product branding. You are then able to easily duplicate and/or edit this template to suit your needs. For example, you could use a single template for your website or why not setup multiple templates with perhaps different colour schemes or header image for separate sections of your website.
• Menus: Create multiple menus and sub-menus and include them in your templates or pages.  You can use the same menu in different areas and give them different styles and different layouts such as vertical or horizontal menus with drop-down sub-menus.  Each menu item can have an image or icon as well as some descriptive text.
• No Limits: It allows you to add/edit unlimited  web pages, menus, enquiry forms, and even the templates for your website.
• Optimised: In addition the CMS is designed to be search engine friendly and gives you the ability to optimise the content, title, description and keywords yourself.
• Improve Ranking: It allows you to keep your content fresh and up to date with regular updates.  Doing this will help improve your ranking with the search engines such as Google or Yahoo.
• Access Anywhere: As our Content Management System is accessed online via an administration area, you can update your site from any computer anywhere in the world.
• Administration: And you can add and remove users whom can administer your website.
• Secure Content: Integration with the Membership Management System will allow you to manage a ‘members only’ section, accessible via a password, to provide additional value for members and reward them for their continued support.
• Save Time & Money: If the website content needs to be updated regularly, this can be expensive and a Content Management System will not only save you money but also give you the flexibility to make changes immediately.
• Static vs Dynamic: Convert your dynamic pages (pages saved in the database) to static pages (pages stored as files such as home.htm) for fast loading.  This will also allow you to modify the dynamic page and make sure it is correct before outputing to the static page which the public can see.
• Delete or Archive: You can delete pages when no longer relevant or how about archiving just in case you want to reference it some day.

News Article Database

Now included for free with the CMS

Create a library of articles for your guests to view and at the same time improve your search engine ranking. Using our News Article system you can display summaries on your home page that the user can click on to read the full article.

• Easy to Manage: Maintaining your news article database is easy using the online editor.
• No Limits: There are no limits to the number of news articles you can add.
• Improve Ranking: By creating regular news articles will help keep your content fresh and up to date which can help improve your ranking with the search engines such as Google and MSN.
• Summaries: On a side banner on your pages, a headline and short summary of your news articles can be displayed and when clicked leads the user to the full story.
• Author: Attach an author to a news article and have their photograph, name, business, email address and/or website displayed along side.
• Categorise: You can create categories for your news articles to assist your customers to easily find and identify your news articles.
• Publish/Archive: Using the publish/archive features allow you to control when your news articles are visible on your website.
• RSS Feed: Your news articles list is also a RSS Feed.  Your customers can subscribe to the feed. Updated information from the feed is automatically downloaded to their computer and can be viewed in their browser and other programs.

Reference Library

Now included for free with the CMS

A collection of your reference articles or FAQs stored in a database that can be randomly selected for use in a side banner with “more...” taking the user to the full list of articles.

• Easy to Manage: Maintaining your reference library is easy using the online editor.
• No Limits: There are no limits to the number of reference articles you can add.
• Improve Ranking: By creating regular reference articles will help keep your content fresh and up to date which can help improve your ranking with the search engines such as Google and MSN.
• Summaries: On a side banner on your pages, random articles can be displayed and when clicked leads the user to the full story.
• Author: Attach an author to a reference article and have their photograph, name, business, email address and/or website displayed along side.
• Categorise: You can create categories for your reference articles to assist your customers to easily find and identify your reference articles.
• Publish/Archive: Using the publish/archive features allow you to control when your reference articles are visible on your website.
• RSS Feed: Your reference articles list is also a RSS Feed.  Your customers can subscribe to the feed. Updated information from the feed is automatically downloaded to their computer and can be viewed in their browser and other programs.

Testimonial Database

Now included for free with the CMS

A collection of your testimonials stored in a database that can be randomly selected for use in a side banner with “more...” taking the user to the full list of testimonials.

• Easy to Manage: Maintaining your testimonial database is easy using the online editor.
• No Limits: There are no limits to the number of testimonials you can add.
• Summaries: On a side banner on your pages, random testimonials can be displayed and when clicked leads the user to the full story.
• Author: Attach an author to a testimonial and have their photograph, name, business, email address and/or website displayed along side.
• Client Posts: Have your clients post their testimonials directly to your database.
• Publish/Archive: Using the publish/archive features allow you to control when your testimonials are visible on your website.