Editorial Tools
“From the very start Sitecore’s architecture, whether out of the box or through customization, has been able to meet every business need thrown at WebTrends.com.”
Nate Manley, WebTrends, Inc.
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Site authors, editors and managers are a vital part of every web project. As the saying goes in the software industry, "Adoption Equals Success". It means that no matter how powerful a CMS technology is, if the business users can't use the Content Management System, the project is likely to fail. That's why Sitecore has dedicated itself to developing a world-class end-user interface that is simple and intuitive, yet powerful.
In-Line Editing, Browser Based
Editors know their sites well. One of the easiest ways to manage a site is to navigate it naturally, and once an editor gets to an area of the site that needs editing, they should be able to click on a page or section to edit the content. Sitecore gives you that capability. Our in-line editing lets editors simply click on parts of the website to edit, without complications. No matter what skill level your content editors have, they'll be easily managing their Sitecore website in minutes.
Familiar Editing Environments
If you know how to use Microsoft Word, you will feel right at home with Sitecore CMS. Sitecore CMS presents users with an Office 2007 style "ribbon" interface, so you'll be immediately familiar with its editing environment. Sitecore also allows you to directly edit content from either Word or Microsoft Infopath. In addition, Sitecore provides an easy to use browser based editor that lets users author any type of page, from the simple to the very sophisticated. Whichever your preference, you’ll be editing and up to speed in no time.
Time Saving Techniques
You’re going to love how Sitecore simplifies your job with such features as Favorites, which lets you ‘bookmark’ and keep track of your most frequently used content . Or the Recycle Bin, which preserves deleted files in case you need to resurrect them later — without requiring a tech support call. The spelling and accessibility checkers help find problems while you are actually working on the content. The Automatic Content Cleaning removes unnecessary code and formats text to match your style sheet that you are pasting into, and the powerful Wizards get you up-to-speed quickly. What does this all mean? Sitecore saves time and ensures accuracy and consistency.
Digital Asset and Media Management
Sure, a picture is worth a thousand words, but how do you store and manage a thousand images? Sitecore’s Media Library handles text, movies, images, pdf files, documents and more, and makes it easy to organize those assets. Sitecore's Media Library supports full meta data and alt tags, which gives better accessibility, compliance and item level security. Additional image handling functions, such as dynamic scaling and aggressive caching, improve management and enhance performance. Sitecore helps you leverage these valuable assets, and maximize their impact, whether that means showcasing or protecting them.
Painless Forms Creation
Forms are an essential part of creating interaction with visitors to your website. They give you the chance to capture essential information from the visitor for sales and marketing purposes. As a content editor and business user, you need the ability to craft new forms as a part of you site strategy without having to wait for someone in IT to build it for you. That is why Sitecore provides you with the ability to assemble forms on the fly to meet your business requirements. Whether the form stores the collected information in a database, generates an email or transmits data to an application, Sitecore puts the control into your hands as a business user.
Metadata and Tagging
Applying metadata to your content has many benefits, from industry compliance, improving search efficiency, integrating with taxonomies as well as offering innovative features like guided navigation and faceted search. Sitecore offers a rich set of options to capture and manage the most sophisticated of metadata, while being easy to use and manage as an editor.
Page Designer
Page designer gives your entire team the ability to adjust parts of a page, or an entire webpage. Your designers will be able to do page layouts and updates themselves, without needing to code or wait for the backed-up developers to do it for them. Their productivity and satisfaction will soar.