subject: Content Management System For Public And Not-for-profit Sector [print this page] CDC Software offers a powerful and effective Content Management
System (CMS) that will give you better control over your entire website.
CMS provides a web-based solution to create, edit, manage and
publish web content. Role-based access allows you to control user
permissions to see and edit content.
Create consistent branding with your website by choosing skins with a standard color
scheme and implementing modules, custom images (headings and banners) and standardized
documents. If your organization has a specific color scheme, then customize your template with
the exact colors.
CDC Softwares CMS System comes with seven core modules that will help get your website off
the ground or updated to a modern look and feel. The standard modules are:
Text/HTML
Text/HTML has a broad set uses and applications and is an important tool for creating a great
website. This will give you the ability to publish articles containing text, rich graphics and images.
Documents
Upload documents into a list that your users can view or download. This will make your standards,
minutes from meetings or annual reports more accessible to your members. You can also track
and log edits as an add-on.
Events Calendar
Get the word out about your events by displaying them as a link in a monthly or weekly calendar,
or a list in chronological order. Each event includes a title, text description and date. Display of an
image and the event time is optional. Each event can be set to automatically expire on a particular
date, or re-occur by any specified number of days, weeks, months or years.
Forum
Allow your users to hold online discussions and post user-generated content, building bonds
with each other around discussion topics. Manage multiple forums which can be organized
into groups. Each forum post includes a subject title and simple-text content. Posts can occur
immediately or await a moderators approval and/or editing. Forums can be searched by users,
with filters for dates, authors and forum.
Announcements/New
Display a list of announcements. Each announcement includes a title and a rich text
description. Announcements are arranged by their publish date by default.
Optional fields: an image, date of publication and a Read More link
Announcements settings: the modules settings page includes a template editor which
allows the Administrators to modify the styles, layout and content displayed for each
announcement. The number of days history can be set here, as can the length of the
description used in search results and RSS feeds.
News Feed
Display news feeds on your portal. A news feed is a dynamically generated list of news items;
each containing a title with a link to read more, and a brief description of the news item. RSS is an
acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
Members Only with Single Sign
Allow any module or page to be restricted to groups of users you choose, such as members,
board members, committee members, etc. You control the content that each group of users has
access to. When installed and used with your CDC Software solution, the single sign-on capability
allows one user ID and password to manage access to website content, manage-my-profile, and
eCommerce modules. It also can be configured to automatically control access to website content
based on the profile and current status of the users activity history.
Make your website unique
The standard package of modules is just the start of what you can do with your organizations
website. Choose add-ons that will make your website even more robust. Commonly used add-on
modules include:
Blog
Banner Advertisement
Wiki
Survey
Job Postings
Your organizations website is not limited to just these core modules. Our CMS is built using
DotNetNuke (DNN) the most popular CMS development platform and this means you have
access to a world-wide network of developers and modules that we can integrate or implement
right into your CDC Software CMS website to make it one of a kind!
