Big Medium

Big Medium

Big Medium 1.3.3 is an affordable, full-featured web content management system that allows non-technical staff to add and edit web page content without knowing HTML. Big Medium frees web professionals from tedious page updates and empowers writers and editors to make website changes directly.

Features:

Perl-based: No special technology required.No need to install additional database technology or hire expensive consultants to get started. If your web server runs a Unix-flavored operating system and has a standard Perl installation, you can run Big Medium.

Easy to install.Installing Perl scripts is often a daunting process for the uninitiated, but Big Medium's simple instructions and setup wizard help you get up and running in under an hour.

Runs in a shared hosting environment.Whether you have your own server or you rent web space from a hosting service, Big Medium adapts to nearly any server environment.

Browser-based.Big Medium's password-protected web interface allows you to add and edit your website content from anywhere in the world. After installing Big Medium on your server, all you need is a web browser and an internet connection to manage your site.

WYSIWYG content editing."What you see is what you get." Big Medium's rich-text editor makes editing webpages as easy and familiar as using a word processor.

Document uploads.Add PDF files, Word documents or other files to your website with the click of a button.

Clean, intuitive interface.Big Medium's elegant interface makes it easy for the most non-technical staffers to edit and publish website content. Simply fill out a web form with the content to be published and, with the click of a button, Big Medium publishes articles to your website in your site's own look and feel. No knowledge of HTML is required.

Valid, error-free markup: Squeaky-clean HTML, XHTML and CSS.Big Medium produces absolutely standards-compliant (X)HTML and CSS, and automatically includes several important tags that improve the accessibility of your page to visitors with disabilities. The result is clean and consistent markup throughout your entire site.

Custom templates: You control the look and feel.Big Medium uses custom design templates to manage any website in its own unique look and feel. The templates are simple to create and change, allowing users to give a website a complete design makeover in a matter of minutes, no matter how large the site. Big Medium also comes with pre-formatted templates, or "skins," allowing users to get up and running with a new site in minutes.

Search-engine friendly.Big Medium generates webpages with natural-language URLs that are friendly to search engines as well as your users. Unlike other systems that generate incomprehensible, hard-to-remember URLs, Big Medium lets you choose your own file names and web addresses. Big Medium also helps search engines index your site by creating a special index page for search-engine spiders and robots with links to every page of your site.

Static pages: Gentle on your server.Even with all of its power and flexibility, Big Medium won't strain your server, effortlessly managing sites with thousands of articles and millions of visitors. Big Medium builds static HTML pages, without the need to hit a database everytime a visitor requests a page.

Holistic site management automatically updates the entire site.With Big Medium, publishing an article is an easy, one-step process. Every time you publish an article, Big Medium files the article in the section(s) you select and automatically updates your home page and section pages to link to the article and offer links to the latest content. No more broken links, and no more manual updating of multiple pages every time you want to add an article.

Categorize content into sections and subsections.Assign webpages to one or more sections or subsections, keeping your site organized and easy to navigate. Adding, editing or removing content sections and subsections is a simple process.

Automated navigation bars and breadcrumbs.Big Medium's auto-generated navigation bars and breadcrumbs always shows your website visitors exactly where they're located in the site for headache-free consistency and ease of use. Big Medium supports both text and graphic rollover navigation.

Manage multiple sites from a single interface.Why stop with just one site? A single installation of Big Medium allows you to manage an unlimited number of websites on your server. And there's no additional charge: all of the websites managed by one installation of Big Medium are covered by a single software license. There are no per-seat charges or other hidden fees.

Five levels of access privileges.Allow an unlimited number of contributors to add, edit and publish content. Big Medium lets you register multiple accounts, setting their access privileges to one of five levels of role-based permissions (writer, editor, publisher, webmaster or administrator).

Publish in any language.Big Medium supports Unicode, the Web's international alphabet, allowing you to publish content in any language.

Work on articles behind the scenes.Big Medium affords editorial control and approval of articles before they are published to your site. Staffers may create and edit "unpublished" articles, and the article will not appear on the live site until they are published with the click of a button.

News feeds and content syndication.With its news-feed features, Big Medium lets you tap the net's innate grassroots marketing power, allowing you to reach customers and readers even when they aren't visiting your site. Discover how the RSS news feed can outdo e-mail newsletters in keeping your audience up-to-date with your latest content, and use the JavaScript news feed to allow other websites to display freshly updated links to your site.

Spotlight articles.Give your latest articles special attention at your website, making them the "featured" article on the homepage and section pages and highlighting them with a splash graphic and unique presentation.

Unlimited images.Add an unlimited number of images to any article by uploading the files directly from the article's edit page. It's as simple as the click of a button and, as with all aspects of Big Medium, requires no HTML knowledge.

Pullquotes.Big Medium makes it simple to give your articles a design flourish and highlight important ideas by adding pullquotes. Just type your pullquote text into a field on the article's edit page, and Big Medium automatically inserts the pullquote into your article.

E-mail to a friend.Big Medium offers "e-mail to a friend" links for your articles, allowing your visitors to share your content and drive traffic to your site.

Printer-friendly pages.Give your visitors access to easy-to-print pages. Big Medium offers "printer-friendly page" links for your articles, automatically stripping out site design elements that might obscure your content when printed.

Spam-fighting features.Putting your author's e-mail addresses on your website normally exposes them to spammers and their mass mailings. Big Medium instead allows your visitors to send authors feedback and other e-mail messages via web form, at the same time hiding your author's addresses from spammers.

Excellent documentation.

Loads of onboard help.Big Medium was carefully designed to be as simple as possible, but why take chances? Every installation comes fully loaded with onboard help for easy access to helpful tips and guidance.

Free online support.Global Moxie's support forums are staffed by the creators of Big Medium and provide fast, expert answers to all of your questions about the software.

Free upgrades for a year.The purchase of a Big Medium license includes free upgrades for a year from the Downloads section of Global Moxie's website. Subsequent annual subscriptions currently cost $59.


Author: Global Moxie Price: $129 Version: 1.3.3 Platform(s): Unix, Windows	Rating: Total Votes: 5 Demo: View it Download Script: click here

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