Sitefinity 5

Sitefinity 5 is a next generation .NET CMS platform that builds on a unique drag and drop architecture.  Previous versions of Sitefinity adopted the drag and drop principle which made managing content and modules fun and intuitive.

Sitefinity 4 took the concept to a new level with the addition of 'structural freedom' – basically the ability to build structure and content areas on the fly with their Layout feature.  This concept in strengthened in Sitefinity 5.

What makes Sitefinity 5 so flexible is the potential ability to provide just one root template with additional structure being built directly in the UI.  This makes core updates very easy as you only have to amend one template; all other templates will inherit directly.

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Intuitive and easy to work with

The User Interface is very task oriented and simplifies the user interaction with the system. Content editors quickly become familiar with the Sitefinity administration and the CMS capabilities. The design is extremely task oriented - all buttons and links not related to the performed task are not displayed (e.g. when the CMS user creates/edits an item, the main menu is not displayed). The user interface can also be freely configured and adapted to your unique needs. The contextual interface labels provide useful guidance thus further simplifying your work with the system.

Enables instant content updates with In-line editing

Sitefinity's in-line editing feature is the easiest way to create and update content directly on the live website. Site editors can modify any of the content elements (news, events, blog posts, images, videos, documents and forms) and either edit, move or delete them. Changes are published immediately without any additional software installation. To ensure consistency and to preserve the integrity of the website, more complex changes like adding widgets or changing the template, are only possible from the Sitefinity backend

Offers powerful content editing tools

Sitefinity's Word-like text editor allows you to easily edit content without any HTML knowledge.

Here are just some of the things you can do using Sitefinity's rich-text editor:

  • Edit text, format font color and size, set indentation and alignment.
  • Insert links, images and videos.
  • Import content directly from Word. Sitefinity and Telerik's RadEditor will automatically cleanse this imported content and ensure that it conforms to the web site's established look & feel.
  • Create tables and lists.
  • Use the multi-level undo/redo to revert to old versions of the content
  • Check the content for misspellings in more than ten languages.

Stop retyping, start sharing

Websites frequently contain duplicated content. For example, the company address, hours of operation, phone numbers, product descriptions and call to action links. There are blocks of content all over your web site that get repeated again and again. When this information changes, it can be a huge hassle to discover and modify each hidden version of this text.

Using Sitefinity Shared Content this text can be typed once and shared everywhere. If the content ever changes, it can be modified effortlessly in a single location.

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Drives productivity through complete personalization

Content contributors are able to personalize their working space for maximum productivity (Including the backend, dashboards, modules, localization).

Every CMS allows you to customize the pages visible to your site visitors, but Sitefinity also allows you to manage the administrative backend of a Sitefinity project. You can edit the page structure and elements such as the dashboard, content, settings, and so on from the Configuration section of Sitefinity. You can personalize the Sitefinity CMS based on the roles and the responsibilities of the different CMS users -site administrators, content contributors, and everyone who is working with the CMS backend, thus simplifying the interface and reducing possibilities of error.

If you want to customize the administration, add something unique to it, remove or add functionality, you can do it at a glance with the same page editor you use to create or edit pages.

Includes complete content lifecycle management

Sitefinity supports your organizations’ processes through the entire content lifecycle - from content creation, approval (workflow), scheduled publication and expiration, management of content change to archiving.

For Marketers

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Sitefinity brings usability to the next level

Sitefinity is a powerful CMS platform offering many enterprise features, and simple, easy-to-use online administration for managing your website. The new revolutionary User Interface is very task oriented and simplifies the user interaction with the system.

  • Minimalist graphic design - users are not distracted by needless eye-candy elements
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  • Flexible interface according to user permissions, roles and responsibilities of the different CMS Users - site administrators, content contributors, and everyone who is working with the CMS backend, thus simplifying the interface and reducing possibilities of error
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  • Task oriented design. All buttons and links not related to the performed task are not displayed (e.g. when the CMS user creates/edits an item, the main menu is not displayed)
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  • Rich interactivity and drag-and-drop interface
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  • Contextual interface labels
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  • User-friendly customization of the backend system - interface for changing system screens, labels and messages

Includes the SEO tools to help you optimize website content

Sitefinity includes SEO tools to ensure that you are getting the most of your website via improved discoverability among search engine results.

  • The Basics – make your website discoverable. Sitefinity prompts the CMS user to complete all essential page optimizations and enter a search-engine friendly title, description and keywords for every page of the website. You will be able to filter the pages with no title, description or keywords and to ensure that all your meta information is in place to guarantee best positioning in search engine results
  • Search-Engine Friendly URLs – Sitefinity helps marketers optimize their online marketing by creating SEO-friendly websites optimized for maximum lead generation. The page URLs are automatically suggested based on the SEO titles with the option for the CMS User to change the URL
  • Content optimization – all images contain alt text, links contain title tags, etc
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Measures the effectiveness of your online strategy and helps you manage customer experiences

The integrated Analytics module allows marketers to leverage traffic statistics, usage information and visitor profiles to better understand your site visitors and to improve your online presence. You are now able to optimize your website content and better respond the needs of your audiences.

Includes a content mashup service

Sitefinity's publishing system makes it easy to publish, expose, consume, aggregate and mashup content from multiple sources, external websites and blogs – all without leaving the Sitefinity interface.

The POP 3 publication pipe, allows you to publish content to the website directly from your e-mail inbox. Additionally the Sitefinity Twitter connector allows you to set a one click property, which publishes your content on Twitter through the Twitter account you have selected.

Sitefinity takes advantage of many different technologies developed by Telerik in past years in order to provide the world’s most open CMS. End users are able to visually create new content types, in which they can aggregate content from various sources (through so called pipes) and then expose that content to the rest of the world through the pull or push approach. For example, if a CMS user wants to achieve all the following:

  • Aggregate all blogs published by the sales department, as well as content coming from the SharePoint Intranet created by the marketing department
  • Distribute content through RSS (pull) and publish a shortened title on Twitter (push)

In Sitefinity, this kind of scenario can be accomplished completely through the user interface, through the publishing system with no programming required. In addition to the obvious benefits for the end users, developers can take advantage of this system to create "pipes" (or connectors) to any systems they may wish.

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