Content Management Systems

If you've read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you'll probably know that CMS are the most exciting way to do business. You also know at least three other things:

• Keeping your site relevant and up-to-date can be time consuming
• CMS can be complicated
• Portals can be expensive

Chattanooga Online is set to change all that.

Our open-source CMS solutions are different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, they are not complicated. They are developed with non-technical business users in mind, for reliability and ease of use. Our solutions don't require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML.

Chattanooga Online can configure CMS for any level of website. From a simple site with several static pages that are easily edited by non-technical net newbies, to a full-blown corporate site with document management, internal calendars, bulletin boards and multiple templates tailored to company colors and logos... we are your affordable, local experts. 

• Need a demo? Look around this site... it's built entirely with Joomla! 
• Want to take a peek under the hood? Give us a call and schedule a demo!
  

Why Open Source?

• Wide development community, professional components and plugins
• Your site is portable: it is not tied to our system... it can be moved to any Linux | Apache | MySQL | PHP (LAMP) webserver or hosting company.
• Scalable: if your site outgrows a lesser hosting plan, upgrade to a more powerful plan, a dedicated server, or a Content Delivery Network

Content Management System features

• Completely database driven site engines
• News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
• Online editor requires no additional software or expertise... if you can use a word processor, you will feel right at home
• Topic sections can be added to by contributing authors
• Fully customisable layouts including left, center, top and bottom boxes
• Browser upload of images and files (flash, JPEGs, PDFs, video, etc.) to your own library for use anywhere in the site

Joomla: Powerful, World Class CMS

• Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc.
• Random Newsflash generator
• Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links
• Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want

Joomla Editing Features

• Image and File library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use
• Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
• News feed manager. Choose from thousands of news feeds from around the world, or create your own
• Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
• Scheduled Publishing. Set start and end date/times for any page or sidebar content
• Custom Page Modules. Deploy custom page modules to spice up your site
• Layout preview. See how it looks before going live

Joomla Content Features

• Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article
• In-line WYSIWYG editor similar to Microsoft Word
• Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
• Banner manager. Make money from your site, or just advertise your own products and services