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Open Source Content Management System

Alienation Joomla open source content management systemAlienation Joomla is our open source content management system based on the award winning, popular and extremely well supported open source Joomla! system.

Why Joomla! and why open source?

Joomla! is used by hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses to power their web site and is supported continually by a community of thousands of developers around the world. Being open source, the product does not tie you to any one developer and every day new extensions and sophisticated add-ons are made available that extend the power of Joomla! At the last count there were over 5500+ plugins available.

Alienation Joomla has Joomla! at its core and it has been adapted and extended to give you a powerful but easy to use system to manage your web site.

Joomla content management system


Features

Administration
  • Admin Overview - See who is logged in, your most popular items, the latest items added to the cms and who added them.
  • User Manager – stay in full control over who has secure access (and their level of access) to the both the CMS and the website. For the cms, assign Manager, Administrator or Super Administrator roles. For the web site, assign Registered, Author, Editor or Publisher access to any of your content and set up multiple user groups.
  • Trash Manager - Deleted items are stored in the trash and can be recovered if deleted accidentaly.
  • Stats - Link to live statistical reports on the number of site visitors, search terms used to find your site, most popular pages, etc. Study how your site is being used & found and adapt your site to increase visitor numbers and usage. Additional CMS logging shows the search terms people are using on your site to find content within your site. The system also integrates with the free Google Analytics service.
  • Help - Online help library for each section of the cms.
  • Messaging - Internal messaging system for site administrators.


Site Control
  • Frontpage Manager - Control which items go on your home page.
  • Menu Manager - Setup and manage multiple menus. You can reorder menu items, restrict access to pages, add in new items, rename items, move items to other menus and more.
  • Media Manager - manage all media used in the site from banner ads to video clips, from PDF’s to Word documents. Create folders, upload, move, edit and delete files.
  • Page Manager - easily create new sections and categories and add items of content to anywhere on the site. Preview pages before publishing and control the ‘publish on’ and ‘publish off’ dates.
  • Meta Data - add meta data (keywords & description) for each item of content. Change key information to optimise your search engine listing. This will allow you full control over the web page titles and the hidden Meta data stored in every web page. Thus you can change areas critical to good search engine listings, re-submit your site to the search engines and monitor the results.
  • Template Manager - Install new site templates to control the look and feel of your site. Multiple templates can be installed allowing you to have different looks to different areas of your site.

Joomla content management system


Standard Modules
  • Content Editor - easily create and edit content using the very easy to use editor which gives you full control over formatting of text. Cut and paste from other documents (such as Word) and keep all formatting, create tables, insert images, spell check content, create links, insert special characters, insert flash files and universal characters - from Arabic to Vietnamese. All your images are stored for future re-use and can be organised in to folders. Content can be split over multiple pages.
  • RSS Feeds In - Many companies provide their site content as RSS feeds - such as news headlines from the BBC, The Scotsman or the Register. Using the RSS function you can easily add feeds to your site.
  • Syndication - Syndicate the content on your site for other users to receive using RSS
  • News - Add/edit/delete news items, publish to the homepage, archive and copy.
  • Polls - Add/edit/delete polls.
  • FAQ’s - Add/edit/delete and categorise faq items.
  • Contact Manager - Add a directory of contacts and contact forms which can be published to the site.
  • Banners - Add your own banners or supplied banner code from an Ad Program. All clicks logged and number of ad impressions can be controlled.
  • Mass Mail - Simple mass mailer to email any group in your cms - from CMS admin users to registered web site users.
  • Search - Allow users to search the site content. The search terms they use can be logged.

Additional Modules
These are just some of the many thousands of additional modules that can be installed;
  • Language Manager - display your site in mutliple languages.
  • Event Booking - event calendars with online booking for paid and free events
  • Forums - fully featured and robust forums.
  • Shopping Carts - feature rich and secure ecommerce systems capable of handling thousands of products.
  • Community Builder - social networking features such as instant messaging, profiles, groups and friends.
  • Form Builder - design multiple forms which can be created and added to any of your site pages.
  • SEF Tools - Search Engine Friendly components to create easily indexed pages, automatic submission to Google and Yahoo, submission of products to Google Base and integration with Google Analytics.
  • Interactive effects - easy to manage tools that provide dynamic image and movement effects to areas of your site/content.
  • Photo Galleries - Add galleries of images with dynamic lightbox effects.
  • Email marketing - Fully featured email marketing utility for the sending of email marketing campaigns and reporting on the results - such as emails opened, emails bounced and who clicked on links within your email.
  • Document Manager - Allow users to download documents. Restrict access to certain users or groups.
  • Video - very easily include video, audio or other multimedia content in your site.
  • Directory - Create a directory of companies or individuals. Charge payment for inclusion.
Many more plugins are available, from help desk systems, to project management tools, to property/real estate management, wiki's, news tickers, games, social bookmarking, blogs and online donations.

To fully appreciate the unsurpassed wealth of features available, we highly recommend a demonstration of the system. Please contact us for more information or to arrange a demo.
 
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