Below you will find descriptions about the various systems, tools and modules 110 Studios offers to each client.  If you do not see a solution for your needs, please call and discuss the possibility of designing a custom module.

Content Management System (CMS)

The CMS is the heart of what we offer to clients.  It is a cmprehensive system that allows anyone within your organization to publish content on the website, making the process virtually instantaneous, while alleviating the pain associated with calling technical staff to make simple updates.

The non-technical, editorial staff at your organization will appreciate the ease with which they can add, update, and delete content items.  It is as easy to add a new article, news story, announcement, or staff memeber as it is to send an email.  For a demonstration of this, please click here.

The CMS has the following features built-in:

• WYSIWYG editing in a browser-based user interface 
• Dynamic site structure and site map
• Customizable workflow and versioning
• Content scheduling
• Content/design separation
• Customizable document fields and metadata
• Multiple languages in a single web site
• File management

The CMS allows for complete control over all site content.  Staff with technical expertise will enjoy the freedoms afforded by the framework, as it allows for low-level adjustments to HTML, Javascript, and .NET controls.  If you prefer to get your hands dirty in code, this is the system for you.  The following features are available to technical developers:

• Portal engine based on web parts
• Browser-based development
• Easy integration of custom code through browser or Visual Studio 2005/2008
• Re-usable page templates 
• Detailed documentation of system, API and database
• Open API extensible with custom providers and handlers
• Add custom modules, web parts, third-party controls, etc.

Workflow

Workflow allows you to manage the process of content creation and modifications. 110 Studios can prepare customizable workflow or approval processes for different document types and site sections.

You can, for example, set up a workflow process requiring that managing editors approve all articles published on your web site.

Workflow notification

Appropriate users are automatically notified by email when a new document is waiting for their approval. The document can be edited, approved or rejected by any user who is authorized for the given workflow step.

Versioning

The CMS optionally stores all previous versions of the document so that the editors can view them and roll back to some previous version.

Content Locking

When workflow and versioning is used, you can also turn on content locking. It requires users to check out the document for editing. The checked-out document cannot be edited by other users at the same time, which avoids two people working on the same document concurrently. After a user finishes the changes, she checks-in the document.

Security

Security is one of the key features of the CMS. The CMS uses its own security system that is based on the standard ASP.NET security system.

Authorization (Permissions)

You can grant users permissions for particular modules and for particular documents or site sections. It means you're not limited to a set of predefined roles.

Content Personalization

We can also help you configure access rights for your site visitors. We can create secured site sections that are only accessible by registered members. The members can be displayed with personalized navigation and content based on their permissions, so you can display, for example, different menu items and content to silver and gold partners in the partners section of your web site.

Website Features

Dynamic Menus and Navigation: All of the menus offered on your site --  tab menus, tree menus, drop-down menus, breadcrumbs, and site maps -- are all dynamic.  That means that as the site chnages over time the navigation automatically updates itself.  This feature makes it easy to add new areas to your site -- using the CMS tool -- without having to reconfigure all of the navigation systems.

Full-Text Search: The CMS offers full-text search functionality out-of-the-box, without having to purchase any additional products. It searches the CMS database content and optionally any uploaded files. You can choose to search for the exact phrase, any word, or all words.

As new content is added to the CMS, it is automatically indexed by the full-text search engine.

You can try this feature on this site using the search form at the top of this page.

Friendly URLs and Search Engine Optimization (SEO): We build search engine friendly web sites that can be easily indexed by Google and other search engines.

Every page on your web site automatically has its unique URL that reflects the position of the page in the content tree, such as:

• http://www.mydomain.com/Research/My_Article_Title.aspx

As you can see, the URL doesn't contain any extra parameters, such as ?articleid=7498 that might not be understood by the search engine robot.

Additionally, our websites support SEO in several ways:

• Each document managed by the CMS can have its own page title, description and keywords that are rendered in the page header.
• We add ALT and TITLE attributes to images and links.
• We build CSS-based menus that use only UL/LI elements without any JavaScript making the menu easy to follow for search engine robots.
• We can customize the site's URLs so that they contain required key words.
• We use H1, H2, etc. elements in the WYSIWYG editor.
• We build XHTML-compliant sites, which may also improve the search engine indexing and page rank.

Web Standards and Accesibility: The following guidelines are adhered to when creating client sites, assuring that our sites meet the recommendations listed in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

• we always render valid XHTML code.
• We encourage the use of CSS-based layouts (instead of inaccessible table layouts). 
• We install CSS-based menus that render the menu from structural elements
  and
  • which can be highly customized using CSS styles (see our menu above).
  • This kind of menu can be easily followed by users of screen readers.
  • The CMS supports dynamic rendering of the site map for easier orientation. 
  • The CMS supports friendly (i.e. easy-to-read and describe) URLs. 
  • The CMS supports custom page titles, keywords and metadata sections for every page for easier orientation. 
  • The CMS allows content editors to enrich the text, links, and images with additional alt/title information that improves accessibility.