Content Management System Features
- SEO Friendly URLs
- Integrated and online help
- Modular and extensible
- Easy user and group management
- Group-based permission system
- Full template support, for unlimited looks without changing a line of content
- Easy wizard based install and upgrade procedures
- Minimal server requirements
- Admin panel with multiple language support
- Content hierarchy with unlimited depth and size
- Integrated file manager w/ upload capabilities
- Integrated audit log
- Friendly support in forums and irc
- Small footprint
Design Features
- Accessibility WAI, WCGA, Section 508
- XHTML and CSS compliant
- Auto-generated menu
- Every page can have different theme
- Design protected from content editors
- Multiple content areas on one page
Via Extra Modules
- Search "core" content along with certain registered modules. You put in a word or two and it gives you back matching, relevant results.Search
- Easy-to-use text editors. What you see is what you get.WYSIWYG
- To provide an easy to use polls system, which allows a poll box to be placed on your page, polls to be created/maintained and poll results to be shown.Polls
- A fully integrated gallery manager for cmsmadesimple.Picture Album
- Display news events on your page, similar to a blog style, except with more features!News
- An easy-to-use blog-module, allowing everything from simple personal blogs to larger with several overall categories/subjects.Blog
- An easy to use, administer, and support newsletter system for CMS Made Simple.Newsletter
- CGCalendar is a module for displaying events on your page.CGCalendar
- This module provides a means of allowing users to upload files to you.File Uploading
- This allows the administrator to create a list of terms, which will appear in a paginated list.Glossary
- A powerful interface to manage contact forms.Forms
- Manage and create users that can log into your site.User Management
- Give visitors the ability to leave comments on your site.Guestbook
- Auto-generate a Google sitemap of your entire site.Google Sitemap
- Detailed search for add-on modules is currently best done from the dev. subdomain.You can find all available add-ons on the forge
For Programmers
- GPL'd source code
- Rich module API for unlimited expandability
- Full API documentation
- Events system
- Ability to program simple PHP coded plugins right inside the admin
- Smarty for templates
- Database abstraction using ADODB Lite (optionally ADODB)
- Intelligent caching mechanism to only get what is necessary from the database