Features - Website Manager

Please select the links below to see screenshots of the Asbru Website Manager and see the Asbru Website Manager User Guide for full details.

Getting Started

Easy Installation

The Asbru Website Manager is easily installed on your web server. Make sure there are access and permissions to copy files to your web server and your website directory/folder through FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or Microsoft Networking or similar. Then just decompress the Asbru Website Manager package and copy all the files to your content directory.
The only additional requirement is that the Asbru Website Manager system web server process/user has file create and write permissions for all your website files and folders.


100% Browser Based

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The website manager is 100% browser based. When installed on your web server you can login and update your web sites from any standard web browser from anywhere in the world. To login just open your web browser and go to the administration URL, which is your domain name followed by "/webmanager/". Then just enter your username and password to the login screen that appears and login.


 

Browse & Edit Your Website

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Browse your website in Browse & Edit mode until you find the web page you wish to edit. Then just press an update link and you can edit your page in a WYSIWYG editor with a word processor like user interface. Browse & Edit mode also gives you access to add new pages and delete existing pages.


 

Website Administration

Content Directories

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If you prefer to view, update and delete your website pages directly from your website folders you can do so from the Website Content toolbar option. From here you can also add new web pages.

All folders and subfolders on the web server are visible by default, but you can choose to restrict sensitive folders so they are not visible in the website manager. You can also choose, which file types to display and to allow users to create/upload.
 

Advanced Scripting

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If you are an advanced user you can add Advanced Scripting to your web pages. The Advanced Scripting includes HTML HEAD code and HTML BODY ONLOAD code and enables you to add links to your style sheets. The advanced scripting also enables you to add more advanced features such as Javascript programming for rollover graphics to your website.
 

Meta Information

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Add meta information to web pages via an easy to use user interface. Add the author of the web page, a description, copyright information and keywords. The meta information can be used for internal administration of web pages or for search engine support and search engine ranking optimisation.
 

Media Library

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Add, replace and delete media files on the web server in the Media Library. Media files include images, Flash animations, Java Applets, documents, PDF files and other files.

All folders and subfolders on the web server are visible in the Media Library by default, but you can choose to restrict sensitive folders so they are not visible in the website manager. You can also choose, which file types to display and to allow users to create/upload.


 

Unlimited Number of Users

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Add as many users as required to the User Database. Users added to the User Database can login to the Asbru Website Manager and update web pages and media. In addition to the login and password you can add a name and an email address for each user.


 

Configuration

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The Asbru Website Manager is configured to work directly after installation.

However, if the website superadministrator does want to change the system and feature configuration he/she can do so via an easy to use interface in the Configuration section of the Website Manager.


 

WYSIWYG Editing

What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get Editing

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Web pages are edited in a feature-rich and easy to use WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) editor. The WYSIWYG editor enables users to see the effect of changes to the content straight away. The WYSIWYG editor is automatically loaded with your content when you update a web page.


 

Editing & Formatting

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In the WYSIWYG editor you can edit text, format font face, set style, size, colour, indentation, alignment and much more. You can also position content absolutely. Any editing and formatting you make will be immediately reflected in what you see in the editing area.


 

Insert Content

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In the WYSIWYG editor you can insert a variety of objects including bullet lists, forms, tables, special characters, images, Flash animations, Java Applets, e-mail hyperlinks, downloadable/viewable files, links to other website content pages and external websites, anchors/bookmarks, print page breaks, content boxes and frames with other local/external web pages.


 

Copy/Cut & Paste and Drag & Drop

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Copy/Cut & Paste and Drag & Drop edit content from and to external applications such as Microsoft Word as well as within the Asbru Website Manager.


 

Undo/Redo

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If you make changes to the content that you regret you can undo and redo the changes to retrieve the content as it was before the changes. The undo/redo feature is multi-level so you can undo/redo changes several steps backwards or forwards.


 

CSS Style Sheet Formatting

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Apply CSS Style Sheet formatting to your content. Available styles are automatically extracted from the configured style sheet and can be selected in the WYSIWYG editor. The effects of the CSS Style Sheet formatting are seen directly in the WYSIWYG editor.


 

Spell Checking

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Check the content for misspellings in 44+ languages. In the spell checking process misspelled words will be highlighted and the WYSIWYG editor will suggest a list of words to replace misspelled words.


 

Import & Clean Content From Microsoft Word

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Content can be copied and pasted directly from Microsoft Word and other external applications. Often Microsoft Word uses unwanted HTML tags and attributes. These can be removed with the Clean HTML Code feature. The feature gives the user maximum flexibility in selecting specific tags and attributes to remove from the HTML code.


 

Table Editing

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Edit tables in WYSIWYG mode in the editor. Change table properties such as table width, height and border. Change row, column and cell properties such as background colours and alignment. Assign style sheet classes and ids to tables, rows and cells.
Table dimensions can easily be changed by deleting or inserting rows, columns and cells.  Users can also insert table caption, table header rows and table footer rows.


 

Form Editing

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Edit form parameters and attributes in WYSIWYG mode. Add or remove a variety of form buttons, text input fields, check-boxes, radio-buttons and select lists and set the parameters and attributes for these in easy to use windows.


 

Plain Mode

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Users can easily switch to Plain mode, which is basically the same as WYSIWYG mode, but with display of table, form and image guidelines. The Plain editing mode also displays the content without styles applied and thus provides a view of the content that may sometimes be useful when editing.


 

DOM Inspector

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Use the DOM inspector at the bottom of the editing area to get a quick view of the HTML tags surrounding currently selected content.
The DOM inspector also provides a shortcut for users to select and remove unwanted HTML tags.


 

Raw HTML mode

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When editing in the WYSIWYG editor it is easy to switch to raw HTML-mode and see and edit the HTML code for the content created. This gives unlimited HTML and JavaScript programming flexibility and power for technical users.


 

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