Features of ASP.NET Content Management

The ASP.NET Content Management solutions provide a comprehensive content management system which is developed using ASP.NET and C# technologies. The core architecture of the ASP.NET Content Management application provides user authentication, internationalization, and a customizable roles-based authorization system which enables content authoring to be safely delegated to role-based team members with little or no knowledge of HTML.

The ASP.NET Content Management application supports a two-step approval-publish process which involves posting of the content to a staging server initially and then migration of the content to the production server after approval. Many plug-in modules included in the ASP.NET Content Management application provides support for an e-store, XML news feeds, Flash, Maps, Newsletter, Surveys, Forums, Document Management, Custom Lists, and more.

The architecture of the ASP.NET Content Management application provides an easy mechanism to add new functionalities as portal modules. Users can independently be given permission to view, edit, add, or delete content in a module, based on their role. Module properties can be set from a central admin page or directly from within in the module itself. Modules can be easily positioned on a page or moved between pages.

The ASP.NET Content Management application provides many pre-built modules that cover a wide range of common website functionalities. These modules provide extended functionalities than most of the open source content management applications available in the market today. Most of the built-in modules of the ASP.NET Content Management application are integrated with the text search module. As a result, the search feature of the ASP.NET Content Management application allows you to search for content in a class of modules, for example, all news articles, or across all modules. As the search framework of the ASP.NET Content Management application is role/permission sensitive, it automatically filters the search results to only show content from modules the current user is authorized to view.

The modules of the ASP.NET Content Management application use the built-in WYSIWYG editors to enable users with no knowledge of HTML to produce well formatted content. The administrator of the website can choose from several different HTML editors. A same editor can be used for all the modules, or different editors can be used for individual modules.

Some of the administrative features of the ASP.NET Content Management application include optionally forcing new content to be approved before publishing, support for a two step publishing process, and provision to enable or disable content approval for each individual module. In addition, the ASP.NET Content Management application enables the user to first create the content and store the content in special staging tables in the databases with the workflow is enabled.

The data items are automatically migrated to the production tables after the approval of the new content. As the ASP.NET Content Management application that is built on a flexible architecture includes custom internationalized web controls and other classes, it becomes relatively simple to localize the ASP.NET Content Management application to a particular language, culture, and region. An auto-learning translation function of the ASP.NET Content Management application simplifies future translations.

The ASP.NET Content Management application enables easier customization of the layout and appearance of portal sites. Each portal site can have a custom skin or a layout which includes the site header, body layout, menu style, footer, style sheet (css), logo, etc. You can customize the default 3-pane design in the .css style sheet of the portal site. Icons and other graphical elements can be easily replaced. The layout of the modules on each page is defined on the "admin this" page and the layout is stored in the database.

The ASP.NET Content Management application provides a standard collection of themes which can be used to improve the look of the portal sites. Each module can use either the default theme or an alternate theme to highlight its appearance. The ASP.NET Content Management application allows themes to be set as public or private. The location of the main Themes directory can be changed from within the configuration file.

The ASP.NET Content Management application enables flexible and fine grained user and role management. The ASP.NET Content Management provides the ability to control the users in a specific role to view, edit, add, or delete content either by individual module or by page. To do this, you can use either the Windows authentication (username/password in Active Directory or NT SAM) or web forms authentication (username/password stored in SQL Server). You can assign individual users to roles such as admin, editor, publisher, power users, developer, etc for site content management in Windows forms mode, or use predefined Windows NT/AD groups as your roles.

The ASP.NET Content Management application provides special permissions for workflow support. In addition, the ASP.NET Content Management application provides support for short and full user registration options. Pre-defined roles for “Authenticated Users” and “Unauthenticated Users” allow you to easily restrict the visibility of individual modules and pages to users who are logged on to the site.

The ASP.NET Content Management application provides a consistent method for developing custom pages and custom controls, as the C# classes of the application extend standard ASP.NET objects. The difficulties faced in the creation of a custom module are avoided as the core objects of the ASP.NET Content Management application inherit from ASP.NET's page. All pages are constructed from dynamically-loaded user controls. Server controls provide clean code/html content separation.

The ASP.NET Content Management application uses ADO.NET data access with Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures. In addition, the ASP.NET Content Management application provides a tool for automatic creation of stored procedures and C# data access layer for new modules. Configurable caching of portal page regions and portal settings provides excellent scalability. The ASP.NET Content Management application supports popular browsers which include Internet Explorer version 5.0 and Netscape version 4.7 and later. In addition, the ASP.NET Content Management application supports mobile devices through WAP/XML. Most of the modules allow for customized content to be delivered to mobile modules.

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