To manage your site you need a Content Management System (CMS). This allows you to create new pages, add new content, edit existing content and manage other features of your site - with no web design knowledge required.

All Alienation Lite projects use the Joomla! CMS as standard. Joomla! is an award winning Open Source content management system in use on hundreds of thousands of web sites world wide. It is in continual development, well supported and based on technology that is well known - meaning you won't be tied to any particular design/development company in the future. Best of all - there are literally thousands of templates and components available (to enhance its functions), meaning you can build on the site over time.

Below is the standard features you will receive with every installation of Alienation Joomla.

Alienation Joomla Welcome screen

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 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.
• Web site user groups; Registered - only has access to view restricted content, Author - Can create their own content, Editor - Can create their own content, edit their own content and that of any other Author, Publisher - Full publish rights. When content is assigned to the site you can stipulate the access level required to view that content. There will be a login form published to the site with a ‘Lost Password?’ feature. There is also an optional ‘Register’ link with optional email activation.
• Trash Manager - Delete items including menu items and recover items 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 show the search terms used to find content within your site.
• 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 - Reorder menu items, restrict access, add in new items, rename items, move items to other menus.
• 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 and edit the html and css of existing templates

Menu Manager

Standard Components

• Content - easily create/edit content using the 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, creating tables, inserting images, spell checking, links, special characters, inserting flash files and insert 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 and snippets of your content can be shown on the homepage.
• RSS Feeds In - Many companies provide their site content in RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication) - such as news headlines from the BBC, The Scotsman or the Register. Using the RSS function you can add feeds to your site.
• Syndication - Syndicate the content on your homepage 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 to the cms which can also 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 restricted.
• Mass Mail - Simple mass mailer to email any group in your cms - from CMS admin users to registered web site users. For a fully featured email marketing solution that will let you set up unlimited lists, segment audiences, design templates and access graphic rich reports we would recommend Alienation Emu - our Email Marketing System that can be integrated with youir CMS. Further details on Emu are included in the Marketing section and inthe appendix.
• Search - Allow users to search the site content. Search text can be logged.