- edit/update website content online
- WYSIWYG web authoring tools work on Windows, Mac, or Linux
- multiple levels of access and security
- maintain any number of sites simultaneously, each with their own webmasters
- publish pages to HTML, or render them dynamically
- member-only and administrator-only pages
- nested sites and sub-sites
- automatic site map and menu generation
- flexible templating system
- content versioning, rollbacks
- user-friendly administrator back-end
- workflows and content approval mechanisms
- scheduled publishing
- scheduled content updates
- remote publishing via FTP/SCP
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- connect to wide variety of database engines, from plain text to SQL.
- connect to multiple databases simultaneously
- web-based database administration tools
- import/export tools to/from text or Excel
- table-, record- and field-level access control, independent of the
database engine
- simple database API makes it easy to extend to new database engines
- toolkits for automatic form generation and processing of database
inserts, updates, and searches.
- extended set of datatypes that are independent of the underlying
database engine, including html (allows WYSIWYG editing of
HTML data in any database), crypt (automatically encrypts/decrypts data
from the database), email (to display hotlinked but spambot-proof
email addresses), file (for automatic file uploading), and more.
- database drivers for Foxpro/Xbase, DBM, File System, and
fixed-record length binary files.
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- many plug-and-play applications and applets available
- supports server-side web apps, such as PHP
- supports all client-side apps, eg. Javascript, Java, Flash
- driver API for integrating any server application into ExSite CMS -
allows
your web app to be handled like a content object, thereby gaining all of
the features and advantages of the content management tools.
- web applications can call each other, without any knowledge of their
internal coding.
- multiple web applications can share space on the same page.
- supports multiple development languages (C, C++, Java, Python, etc)
via the Perl Inline toolkits, perlxs, or IPC.
- CGI wrappers, to integrate existing CGI programs into the ExSite
CMS without any re-writing. (Normal CGI programs will function
normally on an ExSite site, but they can't take advantage of
ExSite's CMS, site management, and templating features without some
re-coding.)
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- based on stable, industry-standard web technologies, eg. Perl CGI,
Linux, Apache, MySQL.
- no special server configuration required; can be installed on most
ISP setups.
- flexible installation options, eg. server-wide
install, local site install, shared code/separate database install,
etc.
- no client-side applications or plugins required
- customizable authentication procedures
- logs and audit trails
- open source
- email account and DNS management modules
- support for mod_perl high-performance web serving
- support for other web server and OS environments
- web-based site software installation and upgrades
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