Work Environments
Power and flexibility for you. Ease of use for your customers.
We understand that you need complete flexibility and power to create fully custom sites for your end users, while your customers want
a tool that's quick and easy to use. That's why we created separate, role-based work environments, so you always have
a rich set of tools and site building components at your fingertips, and your customers can get their sites up and running in no time with our in-place editors. You can even control the tools and components that you expose to your customers, right down to individual styles.
Your work environment: Developer Studio
Manage customers seamlessly
Our unified Developer Studio interface lets you manage customers' accounts, permissions,
and site settings from one central location, and assign granular,
role-based rights to control exactly what each customer can do. Make design, functionality, or integration changes to a customer's
site – even after it's live – with no interruption in service.
Save time using our prebuilt objects
Avoid the rigors of custom programming and its associated cost,
quality, and time-to-completion challenges, while delivering completely
custom sites to your customers.
Instantly add features – such as forms, navigation
menus, blogs, and data-driven features – by simply dragging prebuilt objects
onto the page. Our flexible, configurable objects save you time on complicated integration issues.
Less production and programming time + more custom features = extra money in your pocket
Create forms with automatic database connectivity
Quickly create contact forms, surveys, or sign-up forms using our
flexible, drag-and-drop Form object. A corresponding
database table is automatically generated as soon as you add a form to
the page. We handle all the technical stuff behind the scenes, so you
don’t have to waste time with server-side configuration, scripting, or
database integration.
Push the limits with interactive features
Deliver innovative, feature-rich sites and microsites and capture the
power of Ajax events – all without programming – using our object-based
events. Add interactive, animated effects to website pages to satisfy your customers.
Take complete creative control
Build pixel-perfect, custom sites in our
drag-and-drop environment or import designs built in Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression, or any HTML editor. Implement best practices when styling
sites using our visual CSS editor, or import CSS files created
with other design software. You can even write style sheets from scratch if
that's your thing – it's entirely up to you.
No configuration required
You don’t have to do a thing to take full advantage of our integrated content management system. No mapping or configuration needed, and no restrictive templates that limit your designs. We made content management a key part of the platform, so you don't have to compromise to deliver content-managed websites to your customers.
Instant access to advanced SEO features
Our
SEO features were designed with your customers in mind. Easy to use,
yet advanced, they enable your customers to improve search marketing
effectiveness and efficiency, and increase conversions with optimized
marketing strategies. Preconfigured following best practices, our
flexible SEO features help customers maximize their website's exposure
to improve the volume and quality of traffic to their site.
Your customers' work environment: Site Builder
Quick site creation
Your customers can quickly get started with our predesigned templates or choose from templates built for their specific needs. And by specifying editable content areas, you can maintain the integrity of
your design while ensuring clients can easily add content using our
in-place editor. So your designs stay pixel perfect, and you can spend less time on site maintenance.
Easy in-place editing
If your customers have used Word or
PowerPoint, then editing their website will be a breeze. Our in-place
editor works like most familiar word processing applications, so your
customers can quickly get up to speed
without training. Users simply browse through the site pages and add
text and images directly to the page. And the browser-based nature of
Sitemasher means your customers can create and update
web pages from any major browser without installing additional
software.
Built-in, real-time analytics
With our built-in analytics, you don’t have to add any complex tracking code to offer powerful reporting functionality to your customers. Statistics are computed every 60 seconds to provide a real-time view of your customers' numbers. And with our handy snapshot view, your end users can immediately see their website's daily statistics in easy-to-interpret charts.
Integrated data management
With Sitemasher, your customers don’t need to know about databases to take full advantage of their power. Create customer-specific forms that your users can simply drop onto the page to gather information from their site visitors. And in the Lists workspace, your customers can view, edit, and extract submitted data.
Securely hosted websites
Your customers probably don’t know much about cloud hosting, redundant servers, or load balancing. Well, luckily for them, they don’t have to worry about it (any more than you do). Our dedicated team of developers constantly monitors performance and security, and takes care of automatic updates, patches, and upgrades. So you and your customers can relax knowing their websites and data are in safe hands.