Mustard CMS - Content Management
Mustard CMS is a Content Management System based on the most popular LAMP web system : Linux Machine, Apache web server, PHP scripting and MySQL databasing.
The heart of our CMS is built on a web page management engine that alone has taken over a year and a half to research, develop, refine and perfect. In that time we have implemented some unique technologies and innovative ideas that make managing your web pages simple, fast and intuative.
The original thinking behind the development of our CMS system was to build a search engine friendly and completely spiderable website navigation structure using only valid modern web standards strict CSS and XHTML, additional there is support for an automatically generated XHTML and XML sitemap should you exceed the recommended 100 link per page recommended limit. Now feel rest assured, all of your web pages are going to be spidered fully by the search engines using our CMS system.
Search Engine Friendly Content Management System
With not only search engines in mind we also consider how to make things easier for your website visitors, our content management system automatically creates Tidy URL's (Uniform Resource Link), in english thats would be the link of the web address for the web pages that you create. How is this helpful? Well firstly your web page links will become readable to the human eye using keywords in a logical directory like structure this also intuatively indicates your navigation position within the website, secondly the search engines will spider keywords found within this link as to guage the subject of your web page, an essential factor in optimising for search engines and also they will be listed in this human readable format. Search for URL rewriting to learn more.
Website Management and Navigatory Organistation Tools
It is important to us that the users of our Content Management System be able to find all of the essential features in managing a website right there where they'ed expect them. This would include an easy to browse unique tree menu navigation system, listing your web pages and structure in relation to your websites homepage, you can also collapse and expand page groups to make bigger sites easier to navigate. In the click of a mouse button over a web page are all the features you'd want and more in managing that single web page, these features include creating a new page, activating, deactivating, previewing, editing, copying, duplicating, pasting, moving and deleting existing pages, as well creating multiple dated backups of page and a restore command. So we really have thought of everything in page management.
Easy to use Page Editor
Creating and Editing a single web page could'nt be easier, you start by naming the page as it will appear in the site navigation. Obviously you'd do this by the subject of the web pages nature, the CMS system will then automatically generate a tidy URL for the address of the web page with the keywords of its subjectivity, additional you can even modify the URL as you'd like it to appear to search engines for the purposes of marketing. Following on from there are more editable and essential fieldsets that go into define a basic web page, designed for the non web code savy user, the system removes the hassel of learning meta tags and HTML code.
On the fly Layout Template Management
With the Mustard CMS layout template manager when editing a page you can change page styles on the fly while all your text and image content remains within the page. This powerful feature is driven by a drop down menu, listing all the different pre-defined layout templates, all you have to do is select one that is best suited to your page and then the layout is changed visually before your very eyes. With respect to building new pages the template manager automatically fills the page with "Lorem Ipsum" copy text which simply is dummy content often used to show font face samples or for layout and design.
Creating and Editing Page Content
Mustard CMS is integrated with one of the most powerful open source WYSIWYG content editors. The open source editor we chose is very accommodating to beginners as well as providing assistance to the more experienced and adventurous professional without overwhelming the user with too many complexed procedures. You will find all the standard features of a word processor built in, if you are more familiar with MS Word you can also paste in copied content from that program and the editor will tidy up the code for you. The editor has an upload facility built in with support to upload any type of file from pdfs, jpgs to wmvs and compressed zip files etc, so you can offer your visitors a whole range of files and media to download and use.
Advanced Visitor Tracking and Website Statistics
Mustard CMS comes with a custom built in visitor tracking system and
website statistics. If your serious about getting to the top of the
search engines then you need to be able to read good quality
informative website statistics and logs. Having these tools at your
disposal you can review where your site is currently standing, what its
bringing in in terms of keyword referrals and where you can improve.
Standard statistical information includes being able to track your
visitors by each page, time spent on site, first / last visit, country
and referring site.
Manage CMS Users and Priviledge Groups
Most systems provide controlled access for various ranks of users such
as administrators, editors and ordinary content creators. Access is
usually via a normal web browser program, possibly combined with some
use of FTP for uploading content.
As the CMS system stands out of the box it is fully CSS and XHTML standards validated which means it is fully accessible and the design code is error free.