Features
Dynamic Page Builder
Publish web pages and mashups that are SEO friendly and contextually driven quickly and easily. Deploy syndicated widgets that enhance brand-building initiatives and distribute content to ever wider audiences.
WYSIWYG Editing
Easy to use WYSIWYG management screens which are cross-browser compatible and allow anyone who can copy and paste to manage site content.
Widgets
Lotus CMS comes with a comprehensive widget library that can be easily extended and customized. Lotus Widgets can be imported or exported between the Google, Yahoo, Apple and Vista widget platforms. Learn more about widgets.
List Management
All user registrations and newsletter signups are stored in a central location and act as a master contact database. The contacts can be segmented, exported and mail-merged to conduct email campaigns.
Integrated SEO
Pages created using Lotus CMS allow effective search engine optimization with features such as friendly URLs, XHTML validation and the ability to set keywords on both content and pages. Learn more about the Search Engine Optimization features of Lotus CMS.
Banner Ad Management
Lotus CMS is very good at allowing publishers to match content to advertisements through a very flexible meta-tagging mechanism. The Ad manager allows publishers to manage ads placed on 3rd party sites as well as the advertisements placed on their own websites.
Rich Multimedia Marketing
Elevate corporate and marketing communications with customers and partners through rich multimedia marketing initiatives that go beyond vanilla email campaigns. Embed podcasts, streaming video and other information resources in any outbound campaign.
Useful Management Reporting
Control and evolve content, operating procedures and marketing efforts by gaining deep insight into detailed traffic statistics, advertisement effectiveness, content popularity and navigation flow.
Extensible Security Mechanism
Lotus CMS incorporates a flexible security mechanism based on user roles and a detailed access matrix that allows granular permissions settings for front-end and back-end modules.
Flexible Templates
Most content management systems require special programming expertise to create templates. Lotus CMS provides non-technical users an intuitive WYSIWYG editor to setup templates quickly and easily. Templates can be linked to pages so that changes to a template will automatically reflect on pages that were built using that template, or, templates can serve as a starting point, after which changes to templates only effect pages created subsequent to any template modifications.
Form Builder
Construct and publish online forms ranging from simple sign-up forms to detailed customer surveys without technical expertise. Online form submissions feed automatically into the Lotus List Manager.
RSS Feeds
Wizards let non-technologists create sophisticated XML and RSS feeds from internal content or external data sources.
Plug-in Architecture
New applications and widgets can be easily plugged into Lotus CMS by encapsulating the external application using the Lotus AWI (Application-Widget Interface), which acts like an API of sorts. The AWI provides a mechanism to create single sign-ons by bridging the extensible security apparatus built into Lotus with that of the external application. The AWI also provides a means to render 3rd-party application screens within pages, as an application widget, using iframes or divs.
Community Building Features
Forums
Lotus CMS is integrated with the popular forum software SMF. SMF is highly customizable and is available from the Simple Machines website under an open-source license.
Blogs
Lotus CMS is integrated with the highly flexible blogging system Serendipity. Serendipity is highly customizable and is available under a BSD license.
Events Calendar
Rich multi-category calendars contextually linked to content for events, seminars, broadcasts, meetings and more.
Online Chat
Configurable chat capabilities allow one-on-one, one-to-many and many-to-many online chat rooms.
Photo Gallery
Lotus CMS is integrated with Snipe Gallery, allows administrators to manage multiple galleries and publish image widgets
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