Overall characteristics

  • Content, layouts and site programming are completely independent.
  • Website Administration Area has a password protected web interface.
  • Unlimited number of page blocks that can be freely combined for a web page.
  • No client-side software to install all administrators need to manage their site is a standard web browser and internet connected PC.
  • Advanced website search engine.
  • Scalability, easily expand your website by adding third-party web software using the CMS Boss Administration features. The other software is easily added to your CMS secure admin area. Even though CMS Boss is encoded using the Zend Encoder, most of the php files are not encoded allowing the administrator to modify any or all areas of the CMS.
  • Shift content responsibilities from technical staff to non-technical authors.
  • Does not require ongoing technical support or maintenance.
  • Online manual for immediate help is available from the admin interface covering all system usage issues.

    ECommerce shopping cart built in with Paypal checkout

    Content management

  • Advanced browser-based administration system makes changing a site's content as easy as point, click, and type. The fully browser-based environment allows your whole team to have geographical independent access to all the features in the system.
  • Page preview before publishing to insure quality.
  • Respect for your existing tools and solutions, using third-party applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Flash, Dreamweaver and others to edit website content. You can ftp your physical files to the server and copy and paste any code or content into the content editor.
  • Uploading of image files directly from the web browser.
  • Global CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets ) changes in 1 global stylesheet file can have site-wide reflections.
  • Unlimited number of easily customizable site templates to keep the look and feel of your site fresh.
  • Advanced search and search and replace engine along with Spell Check, Dictionary, Thesaures, Javascript editor, PHP editor, Images manager, Link editor, Special characters, Table builder, Copy and paste features, Redo options, Ordered and unordered lists, Text formating, Color manager, the Live preview window and the optional Block editor.
  • Live site publishing allowing immediate changes to the website.

    Admin area security

  • Access control through login and password using the powerful Apache web server authentication facilities.

    Setup, installation, support and integration

  • Fully automated Setup Wizard: taking only a few minutes to have the system and your website fully operational.

    Management of pages and page contents

  • Unlimited number of pages.
  • Almost non-existing learning curve due to familiar and intuitive user-interfaces.
  • Automatic insert of "Print this Page", "Email this page to a friend" and "Bookmark this page" links.
  • Insertion of forms in pages using the included form wizard, place any kind of form on your website. Visitors can email you without you have having to hard code your email address into your web page. This prevents email harvesting robots from getting your email address. Your email is totally hidden from public view. supports required fields and some e-commerce functionality, CMS Boss also adds new features for date fields.
  • Direct preview of all page objects in separate preview window.
  • HTML, Text, Javascript, PHP and other web supported languages can be used to define pages content.
  • Maintains integrity for all site links when moving or renaming content.
  • Powerful field checking to insure proper actions.

    Managing the website structure

  • Perform layout and structural changes in all documents of the site in one-step by modifying a single template. Easily upgrade the website to new web specifications by modifying the templates.
  • Separate content from design, content is in the hands of authors, while design and data structure is controlled by developers or project managers.
  • Website section management in a tree structure.
  • Categories, subcategories and pages organized in hierarchical section levels.
  • Internal php functions to insert and update navigation into pages (automatically maintained menus).