Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS - Content Management System

Sitefinity includes the latest version of Telerik RadEditor, the leading WYSIWYG rich-text editor for ASP.NET. The product can replace any TextBox with an intuitive Word-like editor and assist even non-technical users to author and manage HTML content as easily as writing a document.

Sitefinity facilitates native content reuse model to distribute your writing items across multiple web pages within projects, as well as among multiple projects. Whenever one instance of shared content is updated, all pages where the same item appears are updated simultaneously. This feature is especially convenient when there are users responsible for content editing only and others responsible for adding the content to the Web pages.

Sitefinity allows CMS users to tag the content they create in Blogs and News and Generic content modules. You can use tags to categorize texts, pictures, videos, and articles. The tags will then allow both content authors and website visitors to easily navigate to the information they are looking for and instantly access content items tagged with the same keyword. Additionally, you can choose whether to display tags as simple lists or ‘Tag Clouds’ in which the most used are rendered in a larger size.

Sitefinity incorporates its own manager to streamline an easy and effective file upload. It displays a hierarchical structure of folders and files in your project. You can delete, copy, move any kind of files necessary for website construction and organize them into folders. The File Manager helps you to better manage your sites through Sitefinity’s interface.

In an effort to make rapid and easy content presentation, Sitefinity provides a drag and drop interface, for visual construction of web pages. You can drag and drop different page elements and quickly organize your page structure – drag them from the control toolbar, replace or move them around and easily fill the page cells with content.

Sitefinity offers a number of Custom Control Designers to empower the CMS users to easily configure the News, Lists and Blogs controls. Control properties are separated in two sections, ‘Basic’ and ‘Advanced’.  Business users can configure the ‘Basic’ section of the designer and implement the control without seeking help from developers.

For any page change or repurposed content, there is a preview capability to verify the content look-and-feel in a website environment before publishing. You may preview content items in all different renditions where they will appear and ensure perfect content quality management before going on air.

Sitefinity supports different versions of the same building block allowing rollback and comparison to previous versions. Every time a user modifies content, a copy is created in the Database – the old version is not deleted, but stored in the Database together with the newer versions. Versioning provides a more powerful alternative to keeping backup files. It can be applied to pages, page templates and any content.

The main purpose of every CMS is to ensure that new or modified content does not go live immediately but rather passes through a process of approval. Sitefinity has a robust workflow mechanism, supporting different levels of workflow complexity. It can be easily enabled and disabled, as well as applied on both content and pages level. Users can coordinate the different roles throughout the content management process to guarantee accuracy in public content.

Sitefinity offers out-of-the-box website templates to help you jumpstart your CMS applications. When creating a new project you have the option to use one of the readymade templates if you do not want to start from scratch. For example, with the ‘Personal’ template you can build personal websites that generally have a simple structure and focus mainly on blogs. The ‘Corporate’ template, on the other hand, is perfect for small and mid-sized companies that need a site with a more complex structure and a more formal look and feel. Both templates are there to serve as a starting point for your development and you are free to customize them as you like.

Sitefinity ships with a 100% XHTML compliant sample website showcasing its full range of features, controls and modules. It allows users to dig into Sitefinity’s administration and get a better understanding of the product.

Sitefinity offers a new exciting feature that allows for exporting a website so that it is available as template when creating a new project. This tool currently exports all data from the created pages of a website in the Pages section of the admin, as well as data from the following modules: Generic Content, News, Lists, and Blogs. Choosing the given template will ensure that all data and files available in the exported site will also be available in the project that adopts the exported template.