Features
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Minimal administration interface
You work directly on your web pages. There are no administration pages for editing page content. When you log in as an administrator some extra buttons and links appear at the bottom of each editable area. Just move to the page you want to edit, click – edit – save, and you´re done! You can then see the updated page immediately.
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Wysiwyg editor
WebMan uses a third party wysiwyg web page editor, connected to textarea elements in HTML forms. There are several Open Source alternatives on the market. WebMan uses the FCK-editor by Frederico Caldeira Knabben, but this can easy be changed to something else (TinyMCE for instance, works in a similar way). The reason for choosing the FCK-editor is that it contains a very well working file upload utility, customizable styles and templates that makes the creation of new web pages fast and efficient. Adobe choosed FCK-editor as editor in Cold Fusion which tells you a little about the quality. FCK is a little harder to configure than TinyMCE, but in WebMan that is done for you. In the editor you can use design elements like tables or css and so on. You can also upload and use flash files, images, pdfs or any other type of document.
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Powerful navigation
One of the few administration pages in WebMan is the navigation page. This is where you create or delete pages and organize them in your site. As soon as you create a page it is available in the menu for editing. The navigation page contains a tree of web pages where you have a great overview. Here you can also publish or unpublish your pages and decide the name and type of each page. Every page has search engine optimized keywords and descriptions that is controlled in the navigation page. You can have as many levels or sublevels of pages as you want.
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Templates
Every page has a template. A template is a separate file that controls visuality and functionality of the page that uses it. It can be a normal page or a mail form page or a news page for instance. Some templates comes with WebMan and others you can add after installation, simply by placing a copy of it in the templates folder. You can also build your own templates for your own specialized applications.
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Modules
Modules are small pieces of stand-alone code that can be included anywhere in your site, in the main design or in a template. It can be things like related info or contact info or anything else that you want to re-use on several pages. You can of course create your own modules or download new ones. Just put them in the modules directory and start using them.
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Skins
The overall design, look and layout of each site is controlled by skins (ie design themes). WebMan comes with a couple of different skins. You can also create your own skins.
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Multiple sites
WebMan doesn´t just control one web site. It is designed to control multiple sites. It can handle several domains and any combinations of domain, language or version of a web site. Let´s say you want a site for the main company. And then three more sites for the affiliates, different versions on english, german and french. Or two different for each language... Your choices are limitless. WebMan has a smart language detector that directs the visitor to the site with the right language automatically the first time she visit your site.
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User database
WebMan has a user database that is shared by all sites. Users can have different roles in different sites. Customers can log in and get access to protected areas in a site. A user can be administrator for one site and a regular user in another. Administration and editing can be shared by several administrators. When a page is edited the system keeps track on who updated it and when it was updated.
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Reliabilty
Wherever there is a need for it the communication between the user interface and the database is controlled with transactions. This increases stability and reliability of the system. All actions taken by administrators, like creating new pages or saving content is passwordprotected with an extra login.
