SiteCenter Features and Benefits
SiteCenter offers the quickest time to market out of any online web site building and editing solution available today. Take a look at our list of benefits and we're sure you'll agree:

Benefits For You, The Hosting Company
  • Ready to go "out-of-the-box". We understand that a minimalist time to market approach is necessary when deploying new solutions. SiteCenter takes under 1 hour to install and configure, and can be used the same day.

  • Standards-compliant orientation. SiteCenter runs on industry-standard technologies, including the Apache web server and the PHP scripting language. No custom programming languages or scripting engines are required.

  • Simple file upload installation. You do not need root access to install SiteCenter, and it runs flawlessly on both shared and dedicated servers. Only FTP access to your server is required!

  • 100% web-native solution. Everything about SiteCenter (including installation and configuration) is handled directly from the web browser. This means no end user downloads, and also makes future updates easy and completely transparent.

  • Instant increase in service offerings. SiteCenter boosts your service offerings to both current and future customers, and puts you one step ahead of your competitors.

  • No end user training required. SiteCenter contains design elements similar to the Microsoft Windows operating system, including clickable icons and dropdown menus. This results in a minimal learning curve... even for the most novice Internet users.

  • Interacts with both local and remote websites. SiteCenter interacts with your end users website via PHP's FTP library, allowing seamless building and editing of both local and remotely hosted websites.

  • Low TCO and recurring ROI. Offering SiteCenter as a service to your customers produces recurring revenue. This means rapid ROI after your initial, one-time-only license purchase.

  • 24/7 instant availability. Because SiteCenter runs directly from a web browser, your customers can login and build / edit their web site whenever they desire, 24 hours a day / 7 days a week, from any computer with an Internet connection and Internet Explorer.

  • Scalable and adaptive. SiteCenter grows as your company grows. For example, if your initial license purchase was for 500 users and your customer base has grown to 800 quicker than you expected, then it's easy to upgrade your license, simply by visiting our website.

  • Customize user permissions. SiteCenter administrators have full control over user accounts. They can create, edit and delete users, as well as their permissions. Functions such as creating a new file, uploading images and changing account passwords can be disabled for each user.

  • Integrated standards support. The Internet is always changing. SiteCenter is up-to-date with past and present standards, including XHTML-compliant output.

Benefits for your clients
  • Build a web site in 5 minutes. Because SiteCenter includes dozens of pre-designed web site templates, your clients can literally point-and-click to build their own web site in minutes.

  • Customers manage their own website. SiteCenter allows your customers to build and manage their web site with ease. They can build professional looking web sites in under 5 minutes and manage them with the integrated file and image managers, as well as the intuitive WYSIWYG editor.

  • Task-based user grouping. Multi-user support allows groups of users to collaborate as a team and manage different areas of a website.

  • Rollback content authoring. SiteCenter stores a backup copy of every page that is edited so that 1-click rollback can be performed if necessary.

  • No HTML experience required. Your customers can become web designers without knowing any HTML or programming languages. Because everything is point and click, they can login and build / update their web site quickly, easily and effectively.

  • More than simple HTML editing. SiteCenter is more than a basic HTML editor. It includes integrated spell checking utilities, find/replace, direct source-code editing for advanced users, and wizards for more complicated tasks, such as table and form creation.

  • 100% script, no components required. Even on the clientside, SiteCenter is 100% script, including HTML, JavaScript, DHTML and XML. There are no ActiveX/Java components to install, which means clients look forward to building and editing their websites.

  • Powerful file & image managers. Your customers can easily build web sites based on pre-designed templates. They can also upload HTML pages and images. Which files they can and can't upload are also totally customizable.

  • Easy end-user account modification. With just 1 click, you can give your customers the option to effortlessly modify their SiteCenter account password and FTP details.

  • Fully integrated stylesheet rendering. When your customers build a web page containing a stylesheet, the SiteCenter WYSIWYG editor will automatically extract and render these styles in the editing window. Users can even select from these styles in a dropdown list.

  • Time-saving "on demand" context menus. When building a web page, your customers can simply right click anywhere inside of the editing window to see the appropriate context menu. For example, if they right click inside a table cell, then they will have the option to change its background color, etc.
New Features in SiteCenter NX
  • SiteCenter NX offers a completely self-contained site building and editing service. It's just as easy to add a page to a web site as it is to edit, copy, rename or delete a page.

  • Option to restrict the number of pages a user can create with the site builder. By default this is unlimited.

  • Automatic signup via PayPal. Users can fill out a form, enter their FTP details and make a payment via PayPal to sign up for your site building service. You set the price and choose when they pay: for example, weekly, monthly, etc.

  • User accounts are tied to a plan, which defines how they can use SiteCenter, including file editing restrictions, whether or not they can signup automatically using paid signups, how many pages they can build with the site builder, etc.

  • Users can add dynamic content to their web sites with SiteCenter's new modules. For example, with just a few clicks they can add a fully functional contact form to their web site that will automatically email them the visitors details and comments/questions.

  • Create reseller accounts which can login and manage their own end-user accounts. You can assign a specific number of user accounts to each reseller, which they can then configure and manage for their end users to build their web sites.

  • SiteCenter includes over 100 professionally designed ready-to-go web site templates for anyone looking to create their own web site including small businesses, educational institutes, families, sporting groups and tradesmen.

  • Templates can be automatically downloaded from our private label template repository and added into SiteCenter with the click of a button. You can also add your own templates in minutes by following our step-by-step template creation guide.

  • All SiteCenter templates include dynamic menu creation which is handled automatically by SiteCenter. For example, when your customer adds a page, the page is automatically added to the navigation menu for every page on his web site.

  • Mass email your customers quickly and easily using SiteCenter's built-in bulk email utility. This is a great way to tell your customers about new templates or special offers.

  • Detailed usage statistics give you a birds eye view of your site building solution. Stats include details on user accounts, popular templates and popular modules.

  • With one click your customers can quickly and easily change the template for their site if they aren't happy with it. All pages will automatically be updated for them with no additional work required.

  • Your customers can add pages to their site and easily re-order the appearance of pages on the navigation menu. A page can have an optional parent page and when this is the case the site's navigation menu will automatically be turned into a drop-down menu, compatible with all modern web browsers.
Features For You, The Web Hosting Company
  • Easy-to-use professional web site builder. With no technical experience, anyone can build a compelling, multi-page web site using SiteCenter's new 5-step web site building wizard.

  • Dozens of pre-designed web site templates. SiteCenter includes dozens of professionally designed web site templates which your users can choose from when building their web site.

  • Automatically download and install new templates. SiteCenter includes an integrated template engine that you can use to connect directly to our unbranded template repository and download new templates for your customers as we release them.

  • Full Dreamweaver editable region support. SiteCenter works seamlessly with pages built in both Macromedia Dreamweaver and Macromedia Contribute that contain restricted editing.

  • Easily re-brand as a complete web management solution. Re-branding is easy, simply modify a pageheader.html, pagefooter.html and the included stylesheet and you're set. No server-side coding is needed.

  • Make a huge markup and set your own prices. Our innovative licensing structure means you can resell the solution at great margins and provide a great service for your customers!

  • Unbranded printable user guide. Print and provide this to your clients, or follow the simple instructions yourself. Specifically written for the non-technical user.

  • Restrict editing to sections of your website that YOU define. You maintain control of your designs. Easily disable functionality, such as delete, rename, upload or create. Only give your clients access to features that you allow!

  • Hide complete files and folders from your clients. You control what folders and file types they are allowed to manipulate. Give them access only to their news or products page. Its up to you!

  • Do you create files in Macromedia Dreamweaver using templates? No problem, SiteCenter edits those files with the editable regions intact, restricting end users so they only edit those regions you specify!

  • Toggle between WYSIWYG and raw code mode. You can directly edit your html code from your browser! Complete HTML and XHTML output.

  • Complete support for stylesheets. If your HTML code contains a <style> tag or links to a stylesheet, then those styles will automatically be available in the stylesheet drop down list on the toolbar!
Features For Your Clients
  • User-friendly interface, just 'Point and Click'. No technical or programming skills are required. It also comes with clear user guides and a handy online help system.

  • Fast and simple - everything is handled in the browser! 100% DHTML, JavaScript and PHP code with no slow Java or ActiveX components to worry about.

  • Powerful file manager with no need for FTP. Create new files based on templates, upload files from your hard drive, copy, rename, delete files and more.

  • Completely online HTML WYSIWYG Editing (What You See is What You Get). If you or your clients can use Microsoft Word, then you can use SiteCenter! Rich text formatting, search, replace, undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, tables, links, images and much more!

  • Create slick tables fast. Set their border color, alignment, spacing and more. Once created, simply right click on it for a handy popup attribute menu!

  • Forms in a flash. Create contact, survey or order forms directly from your web browser with text boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, buttons and more.

  • Upload images directly into your content. Using the powerful SiteCenter image manager is a snap.

  • Multi-lingual spellchecker. Check your web pages in American, British or Canadian English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.

  • Powerful link manager. Point and click to create links to other pages on your website or to external sites

  • Instant template previews. See instant snapshot previews of the templates you are creating.

  • Requires NO FTP, HTML or programming knowledge. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use SiteCenter! No need to worry about coding, a third party FTP client or learning how to use them!

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