Product catalogue

An online product catalogue is crucial to building a competitive online presence in today’s marketplace. Using the catalogue you can build your own hierarchal structure to store information. By default products include pictures, descriptions, and pricing information and product codes. The administrator of the website can add an infinite number of custom attributes to products in the catalogue, making it the most flexible product catalogue available. The hierarchy does not have any restrictions on the number of levels, although it will advise the administrators when the hierarchy runs the risk of turning visitors away.
Products in the catalogue can be flagged as being on “promotion”, “featured” and “popular”, helping visitors to identify products being promoted more aggressively by the owners of the site. Products can also be set to display on the homepage, either one at a time or a randomly picked product.
The catalogue also includes a shopping cart that allows users to add products and then request more information, or place an order via e-mail. Users are asked to register to setup their account with the website, allowing them to more quickly place orders in future. The shopping cart does not include any facilities to process credit cards by default, although the facilities can be integrated if required by the client at an additional cost. The catalogue does include a single order form that can be customized according to the requirements of the content editors.

Static content pages

Each website requires static content pages, including “About Us” pages and the homepage. Static content pages can easily be setup and customized using an online editor similar to Microsoft® Word®. The styles and formatting available in the editor are restricted to be compatible with the design of the website, thus preventing the editors from creating pages that don’t look good.
The homepage is configured separately to normal static pages, allowing the website owner to choose what information will be extracted from other areas of the website to be displayed. The homepage can also be configured with various editable “content zones”, restricting the editors to keep the most important page of the website looking its best.

Contact details and contact form builder

The contact details page can be edited using the online administration area, and the contact form can be customized by the content editors to suite the requirements of the owner.

Image Gallery

The image gallery allows content editors to create separate galleries and upload images and descriptions to these galleries. Images uploaded to a gallery are automatically resized to create thumbnails and larger views, while creating links to the original files for high resolution downloads.
If the portfolio component is present galleries can be associated with a portfolio entry.

Portfolio

The portfolio component allows content editors to setup lists of past events or projects and client information for that specific event or project. This is a great way to showcase the capabilities of your business, its services and its products. Client quotations can be added to the portfolio entries, and highlighted on the website.
If the image gallery component is present galleries can be associated with a portfolio entry.

Integrated search

An integrated full-text search engine gives your visitors an easy and effective way to find any information published on your website. The search engine can find information published by any other component on the site, and using an advanced indexing algorithm it delivers accurate results in less than a second.
The search component is included with all components, except the static content module.

Link Directory Service

Setup your own Yahoo!® like directory service to give your users access to valuable information on the internet. Links are classified under categories, helping your visitors to quickly find links to what their looking for. Link directories are a great way of providing access to supplier websites where your visitors can find more information on your products and services.
This component includes click tracking, allowing you to see which links are most popular.

User Accounts

It is often required that users register on a website to make use of certain facets of the website, place orders or download documentation and other information. Our integrated user accounts component allows site owners to restrict access to parts of the website to registered users only. The user accounts component integrates very tightly with the shopping cart in the product catalogue component, optimizing the shopping experience by saving often used information in the user profile, including billing and shipping information and the content of their shopping cart.
The user accounts component is included with the catalogue component.

News Service

The news service allows website owners to post professional looking news articles to their websites. News articles can be classified under any number of custom categories, and linked to each other for a “relevant news” feature. News feeds in RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 are automatically created, allowing users to access news from within their favourite news reader. External links can be added to news articles to serve as references for the information contained in the article. Articles can contain many pictures, and are edited using an online Microsoft® Word® like editor.
Past articles are available through the news archives, allowing visitors to access all previous news articles.

E-zine Component

An e-zine, or electronic magazine, is an extension to the news service component, allowing content editors to group news articles and photo galleries into a dynamic magazine format. All articles and galleries are grouped together under a specific issue of the magazine, allowing users to easily navigate between the articles and galleries inside a single issue, as well as between the current and previous issues of the magazine.
Magazine content can be restricted to registered users only. The e-zine component does not include a subscription service that allows for premium content by default. A custom extension to the e-zine module can be developed if premium content services are required.