o Full content ownership: This is your organization's website; therefore your organization should drive it. DRG's CMS gives your organization full control of your content, without needing to rely on any external web development group. Need to make small changes to an existing page? Create whole new pages of content? Link to documents or external web pages? Want a promo box in the side column? Click > Type > Publish > Done!
o Easy Edit: Need to fix something simple on the page? Drop right into the page with Easy Edit mode and fix it. Then, with the push of a button, publish the changes to your website. But Easy Edit mode does not stop there–from Easy Edit you can manage all of the content on the page. Many of DRG's CMS users conduct 80% of their web management from the Easy Edit interface alone.
o Control Panel: When you need to take hold of the web site, Control Panel is where you do it from. Build out your navigation structure, add child pages, drop in promo boxes, update sponsorship banners, and manage powerful user controls. The Control Panel gives you full access to the engine of CMS, all done via an intuitive point and click interface.
o Image and Document Management: Have a picture from your last convention you want to share? Have a PDF that needs to be downloaded by those visiting your website? No problem. Simply upload the image or document to CMS and instantly link it on any page. The file structure interface is modeled after Window and Mac interface, giving you a fully manageable tree view where you can organize files in any fashion you like, and create new folders to mange documents as you see fit.
o User Friendly Content Editor: Modeled after the most popular word processing applications on the planet, CMS gives you simple controls to change fonts, size, and other common formatting functions.
o Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Your website and content is only doing your organization any good if people can find you, and you get found via search engines. CMS uses organic SEO methods to accelerate your site position on Google, Yahoo, MSN Live and other popular search engines. This means when people search for you or key terms or concepts related to your organization, your site will appear in results lists more often, and not just in a sponsored links side bar.
o User Controls:
· Calendar: Create calendars to display upcoming events and facilitate planning
· Events: Disseminate important information and cooridnate scheduling by creating events on your calendar
· Data Grids: Organize information in powerful, feature rich grids. Create lists of products and prices, rosters and directories of contact information, and more
· Promo Boxes: Have special content that you want to focus attention on? Drop it in a promo box to feature it prominently on whatever pages you choose.
· Sponsorship Space: Promote your sponsors or use space on your pages to generate revenue from ads.
o Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Take detailed control of the look and feel of your site by generating your own CSS. Many organizations have spent extensive resources to define colors palettes and logos that match their corporate culture and reinforce their brand. CSS allows site managers to quickly establish and edit the color theme of their website. CMS flexes to your preapproved and vetted style sheets to ensure uniform corporate appearance across your site.
o CMS Forms Engine: One of the great and enduring strengths of the Internet is that it is an interactive medium. It allows you to present informative content to users, and offers your users an opportunity to interact directly with your organization through your website. DRG's CMS incorporates a Forms Engine, which allows you to build your own custom forms to capture user information while they are on your site. Forms can be designed to capture any information–generate emails for feedback, collect survey data, or allow registration for events. The only limit is your imagination.
o Microsoft Core Components: Built on the ASP .NET 3.0 platform running on the latest version of SQL Server, DRG CMS gives your organization the springboard to build complex business applications to suit your needs. DRG CMS is not just for public facing web sites, but can be used to provide intranet services to your employees, partners, customers and vendors.