Content Management

The Business Catalyst Content Management System boasts a rich set of features enabling you to:

Amplify Your Voice with Blogs:

• Full blogging platform
• Customers can leave comments on any blog post
• Approve all incoming trackbacks
• Trackbacks to any other blog
• Permalinks
• Set release dates for blog entries
• Tagging and Tag cloud module
• Blog calendar module
• Recent blog post module
• Blog post by month module
• Report on blog post readership
• Integrated RSS channel for each blog
• Make your blog secure
• Limitless customizability of blogs
• Ability to import WordPress or TypePad blog

Build Your Community With Forums

• Create any number of forums
• Set moderation level on new customer posts
• Customers can subscribe to any thread and be notified when new posts are added
• Make any forum secure
• Set release and expiry date on your forms
• Reporting on forum usage
• Easy to use administrative interface for managing threads and posts
• Limitless customizability of forums

Easy navigation with Dynamic Menus

• Let your clients add/edit/delete menu items without touching the HTML or CSS code
• Apply your own CSS/HTML styling to menus and insert them on any page

Integrated CRM

• Grow your customer database every time your customers enquire or interact with your website
• Keep a history of all past customer enquiries
• Allow customers to view their past enquiries via secure "member only" areas
• Allow customers to keep their details updated via secure "member only" areas
• View on a per customer basis details on every action they've taken on your site
• Customize and extend the Customer Database to suit your business (All-in-One solution only)

Manage Meta Data

• Built-in meta data framework
• Create your own meta data tags and easily add them to any web page

Manage Your Website & Web Pages

• Use a Microsoft Word like WYSIWYG editor to edit web pages
• Use Module Manager to add business functionality without any programming
• Make web pages secure
• Archiving & Rollback for every web page and template
• Automatically creates a working copy of web page until you publish
• Apply content approval rules to any web page or template
• Use templates to create a consistent look and feel
• Use FTP to upload and download web pages
• Work directly inside Dreamweaver using our plugin Triangle

Secure "Member Only" Areas

• Make any type of content secure (web pages, announcements, Blogs, FAQs, Forums etc)
• Manage your customers' access to any secure area
• Set expiry date for customer access to any secure area
• Easily email login details to every customer in a secure area
• Report on customer logins to each secure area

Sitewalk - fool proof editing for your clients

• Edit pages the way you see them
• See your changes occur in real-time
• Allow clients to make edits on the fly, without touching your design

Syndicate Content With RSS Feeds

• Create an unlimited number of RSS channels
• Syndicate and share any type of content e.g. blogs, web pages, news and announcements, FAQs etc
• Set update frequency of your RSS channels
• Reports on RSS usage and items selected from within a feed

Website Reporting

• Comprehensive reporting without having to add a single line of code to your web pages
• Geo-location reporting. See a map of the world.
• Detailed visitors reporting including new vs returning, location, IP address, Spy Lens and more
• Detailed reporting on every type of content
• Search engine reporting, e.g. search phrases, when your site has been indexed and more
• Sophisticated customer reporting framework.
• Filter on any system or custom field
• Save any report and run later
• Export any report to Microsoft Excel for further analysis

Ad Rotators

• Create any number of ad rotators
• Rotate images, HTML snippets or Flash objects
• Report on number of impressions, click thrus for any period

Announcements

• Keep visitors in the loop with our easy to update announcements module
• Syndicate updates with RSS Feed integration

Comments

• Customers can comment on blog posts, products, catalogs, and Web App items!
• Dynamically render customer comments or reviews on any page
• Easily manage and delete customer comments

Drag & Drop Web Form Builder

• Build customer enquiry web forms without any programming
• Add any number of custom fields to your web form to suit your business
• Automatically captures and populates every enquiry in your customer database
• Use built-in business workflow framework to automate follow-up, set reminders and escalation rules. Choose to be notified via email and/or SMS.
• Report on web form submissions including custom fields and easily export to Microsoft Excel
• Allow customers to upload files within web forms
• Allow real-time credit card processing within web forms, e.g. process donations (All-in-One solution only)
• Allow refer-a-friend functionality within web forms
• Add Image Verification to web forms to stop spam submissions by bots
• Allow customers to subscribe to one or more campaign lists within web form (All-in-One solution only)
• Automatically subscribe customer to a Secure Zone upon submission of a web form
• Easily add web form to any web page hosted at GB or elsewhere
• Customize the landing page customers see after submitting an enquiry
• Customize auto responder email sent to customers after they make an enquiry

Integrated Site Search

• Powerful, built-in site search
• Search your entire site or limit indexing to specific pages
• Add a site search bar to your site in seconds

Manage Bookings

• Allow customers to book into events
• Automatically manage capacity
• Use inbuilt follow-ups framework to remind attendees of upcoming events
• Collect payments with bookings
• Customize the landing page customers see after booking
• Customize auto responder email sent to customers after they make a booking
• Sophisticated customer report generator to allow to generate and save booking-related reports

Media Downloads

• Upload and track media downloads
• Make any download item secure using a "Members Only" area
• Capture detailed reporting data

Photo Galleries

• Create any number of photo galleries
• Easily add a photo gallery to any web page
• Add a description to any photo
• Customize layout and appearance of photo galleries

Web Apps

• A framework to create any type of content, e.g. job listings, real-estate listing, a car catalogue etc using a point-n-click approach
• Create any number of web apps (web applications)
• Use various modules to easily publish web apps on your website, e.g. all web apps, latest web apps, random web app, web apps within a classification and so forth
• Allow customers to search within any web app on your site. The system will generate a search form that matches the schema of your web app.
• Allow customers to submit, edit and delete web app items via your website. Optionally you can be notified when they do.
• Make any web app item secure
• Easily share and syndicate any web app items using RSS
• Allow customers to submit comments on any web app item
• Report on web apps and drill down to see item usage
• For faster management use Import feature to manage your entire web app catalogue of items from a single Excel file