A content management system allows the owner of the website to manage the content of his site with a custom administration panel, where he/she can login with a username and password, and then get access to the actual pages of his/her website.
This website is an example of the Lite RGCMS, developed by RG Technologies in South Africa, with help from the guys from o5webdesign. It is based on the normal, or Standard RGCMS, but with a few less features than the Standard version. The main difference is that, unlike with the Standard RGCMS, you do not get a fully custom template built to your specifications. The Lite RGCMS has a standard template, and the structure remains more or less the same for every copy.
There are, however, several ways that the lite cms can be customized:
A fully custom banner for the site. The client can provide us with a banner, or we can design one for them. The banner can basically be any size, but we do recommend to have it between 770 pixels and 960 pixels wide, and not higher than about 250 pixels. This is the only part that needs to be set up by us when buying the lite cms.
After the setup has been completed, the client will have access to his/her cms via the admin login panel, and will be able to make several changes to the look and feel of the template from within the admin panel - no HTML or CSS knowledge necessary at all!
Some of these include:
This allows the lite cms to still have a very unique look and feel, and any of these settings can be changed whenever the client wants to.
The lite cms allows the client to add as many website pages as he/she wants. The only limit would be the amount of hard drive space on the server where the site will be hosted, but with 50MB space, you could easily create a few hundred pages without running out!
Pages are create via a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, that works more or less in the same manner as Microsoft Word. You can enter text, make stuff bold, create bulleted lists, draw tables, insert images and links, and many more.
The facility to enter raw HTML coding is also available (handy if you want to, for example, add Google Maps to the page...)
As soon as a page is saved, it instantly updates on the live website, there's no wait at all for the change to take affect. Very handy if you always had to ask someone to make changes to your site!
The CMS also has a feature to allow you to link to other pages, instead of have the "page" you create have its own content. (nice if you want to create a navigation item that links to your blog for example)
Also, a few of the other features include being able to not have the page appear in the menu navigation at all, and also a feature to allow you to rearrange the order of the pages.
The lite cms includes a very lightweight photo gallery feature, allowing you to add photos to your website. These are automatically resized when you add them, so they don't take up too much space. Each photo can have a description as well, and they are view with a lightbox script. See the photo gallery for an example of how this works... Select an image hosting package from a hosting provider were you can host your graphic and image work on the net for more exposure.
If you need a website that you can make changes to yourself, look no further. The RGCMS was created to be as user friendly as possible, and the Lite RGCMS is so lightweight, that we can have your site up and running quicker than most! Contact Us if you have any questions, or to get your own CMS website.