Vuture's website module is a powerful content management system perfectly suited to managing everything from large corporate websites to self-service microsites.

 

Website Manager

• Create multiple websites containing any combination of web pages, forms, downloads and dynamic content
• Flexible container system for organising websites into a folder structure that matches the way your organisation works
• Home screen for each container displaying a thumbnail for each website
• Save complete websites as base templates that can be re-used and control where those are available in the system
• Preview available templates when creating new websites
• Create pages by importing from a URL
• Copy or move a website between containers or in the same container
• Share website templates between Vuture instances
• Develop websites in Pending status until ready to launch
• Launch websites to live using granular workflow
• Archive websites when no longer required
• Use bespoke or built-in URLs to access the site including ability to set canonical URLs for SEO
• SSL support for secure sites
• HTML and iFrame code to embed pages on external websites with optional dynamic personalisation
• Generate PDFs of any page or collection of pages including the ability to set PDF zoom factor and borders
• Add searchable notes to websites to make them easy to find
• Redirect manager
• Edit and validate the underlying HTML of pages
• Integration with Litmus for automated page testing across browsers
• Create content types with dynamic fields
• Create relationships between content types and use these to generate dynamic content
• Social sharing tools to automatically add open graph meta tags
• One click to add Google Analytics code
• Build a customised PDF version of the site

 

Text Editor

• WYSIWYG on-page editing 
• Auto preview of text edits 
• Word-style text editor including:
  • Spellchecker with multiple language options
  • Bold, Italic and underline
  • Special characters and symbols 
  • Left, right, centre and full text justification
  • Cutomisable heading styles 
  • Bulleted and numbered list 
  • Table editor with row, column and cell-editing with ability to change table cell background color
  • Paste from Microsoft Word 
  • Paste as plain text 
• For secure site insert personalisation fields such as First name, Last name, Company etc.
• Typeahead link editor for inserting URL, email and anchor links 
• Insert centralised shared content using container and website variables
• System variables for date, page name and URLs
• Create and link to iCalendar files with the ability to set location, timezone, status and reminder
• HTML editing for advanced users 
• Ability to lock down text & heading styles

 

Image Editor

• Flexible image editing with fixed and variable image sizes
• System and container image libraries that can be shared with other modules  
• Multiple image upload (using HTML5 and Flash fallback) with automatic conversion to web-friendly format  
• Rotate, tag and mark images with an expiry date
• Automatically crop uploaded images to the available space 
• Use any custom font to insert text into images  
• Add ALT tags to images
• Add borders to images 
• Automatic pop-up lightbox feature for images
• Colour tint an image automatically when cropping it in

 

Layout Editor

• Drag and drop layout editing
• Delete, copy and add snippets
• Drag and drop snippets within pre-defined brand guidelines
• Range of dynamic snippets including:
  • Comments snippet
  • Dynamic content from logged in user profile when using secure sites
  • Dynamic content from content types and crosslinking
  • Google maps snippet
  • iFrame snippet
  • Menu snippet
  • Page rating snippet
  • PDF Basket snippet
  • Poll snippet
  • Random content snippet
  • Related articles snippet
  • Report snippet
  • RSS feed snippet
  • Search snippet
  • Social media snippet
  • Sorted articles snippet
  • Tagging snippet
  • Trending article snippet
  • Twitter feed snippet
  • Video snippet

 

Form Editor

• WYSIWYG form builder that lets you drag and drop form fields
• Range of form fields including single line text, multi-line text, date, email, radio button and check-box
• Add one or more file upload fields to a form
• Add your own labels and instruction text
• Insert CRM and Vuture fields into the same form
• Custom thank you pages based on form selections
• Write back CRM activities when forms are submitted
• Clear test form submissions from Vuture reports
• Clear blank forms by disabling autocomplete
• Mark any form field as hidden
• Insert a hidden date field to post to Vuture or your CRM
• Limit numbers for specific form options
• Seamless integration with ON24's webinar platform

 

Workflow

• Granular multi-step workflow that can be varied on a per container basis
• Send one or more pages for approval with approval over-ride
• Approvals received by email with ability to approve or reject and comment
• Page history with version control and rollback to any previously published version
  • Cleanup old history files
• Restore deleted pages within 30 days
• Send whole site for approval on launch
• Pending site deployment with one-click rollback

 

Brand Management

• Dial in brand colours and lock down text and design element colour choices
• Powerful templates that can be built to enforce brand integrity
• Manage brand assets in flexible image and template library
• Control available fonts including web fonts
• Manage favicons and iDevice web app icons

 

CRM Integration

• Integration with Lexis Nexis InterAction, Salesforce, Dynamics, ContactEase and other CRMs on request
• Integrate with up to 6 different InterAction instances
• Secure sites based on CRM folders
• Login using email address and password, LinkedIn Integration or Single Sign On
• Fields from CRMs are available to populate in forms 
• Form submissions are written back to CRM in real-time 
• Contacts can be added and removed from CRM folders according to their form preferences
• If using secure sites track website visits as activities in your CRM 
• If using the email module uniquely identify visitors to your website and write activities back to their CRM contact

 

Website Access

• Set the default subdomain for staging URLs on a per container basis
• Use a custom domain for any website you create*
• Access a secure website via Single Sign On (SSO) using SAML 2.0*
• Secure a website by IP address using a whitelist or blacklist of one or more IP addresses

 

Marketing Automation

• Create Triggers to publish, move and hide pages

 

Website Tools

• Check for broken links
• Create search engine-friendly URLs using URL rewrite rules
• Deploy new versions of the website with once click and manage website settings
• Generate Google and XML sitemaps
• Create custom URL redirect maps

 

Platform Technology and Infrastructure

• Web Server: Microsoft IIS 7.5 / 8.5
• Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 / 2012
• Server Side Programming Language: C# / VB.NET running on .NET 3.5 / 4.5 / 4.6
• Operating System: Windows Server 2008 / 2012
• Supported Browsers for CMS Admin: Internet Explorer 8+ / Firefox / Chrome / Safari / Opera
• High Availability: 99.9% Uptime with Clustered Database and File Storage and Load Balanced Front-End Web Servers
• Data Center Location: choice of Rackspace Data Center in US, UK or Hong Kong, or Azure Data Center in Canada
• Information Security:  see this article for full details
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recover: see this article for full details
• Bandwidth: 10,000 Mbps bandwidth available in each data center