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Pandora News Content Management System
What is Pandora CMS actually? It is a system for independent addition, modification and removal of web page information content, via the internet and without requiring special technical expertise.
In order to be able, after the completion of your web page, without any further financial expense, to change the content of your web page, add new information, new products, new prices, make changes in your product selection, change the information about your company or employees, you need a Content Management System (CMS).
Pandora CMS system was developed with almost ten years of experience developing the so called dynamic web pages. By using Pandora CMS the development of your new web pages is maximally shortened. Pandora CMS enables you to expand your web site, depending on your desires and without any further costs.
This system is especially suited for the following types of web pages:
- newspaper web portals
- corporate web pages
- web pages for presentation
- web pages of state institution
- intranet solutions
How to choose the appropriate CMS system?
There are many CMS solutions available on the market today. However, how do you choose the right one? What will best satisfy your needs and demands? How do you optimize between what you invest and what you receive? And most of all, how do you make all this as simple as possible?
In order to make it easier for you to navigate through the mass of new terminology related to the design of your new web pages, we will try to provide you with the most important guidelines concerning what you really must pay attention to, regardless which CMS system your should choose.
A good CMS system involves the following:
- an absolute and most important element is a predefined web interface for administrating articles according to predefined styles of text editing, so eliminating the need for you to learn to work with tables, fonts and styles in a text, which will be absolutely necessary if you choose one of the CMS systems with ‘literal content display’, popularly called "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) systems, namely systems that visually edit the content exactly like it would be edited in Microsoft Word
- the option of content conversion from the CMS into popular image and text file formats
- a built in advanced and normal text search engine, with results sorted by articles and sections, and an appropriate search pattern logic
- a built in multi-language support
• User access level organized into categories (for example journalist, editor, administrator…)
- the option of adding, as well as deleting users
- management of XML files
- scalability, i.e. the possibility to expand the system
- the safety of data
- a system without monthly bills for maintenance, support or education
Main characteristics of the Pandora CMS system
Pandora CMS was originally developed as an efficient internet editorial board of an online magazine, and in this function it can reach it’s maximum potential.
However, as any other well designed CMS, Pandora has some essential features that enable its most important function – the management of a web site, independent of its size and scale. Some of the main characteristics of the Pandora CMS system are:
- efficient management of the web site’s content, whether it’s text, images, documents or any other multimedia files
- integration with other systems
- a built in content search engine
- possibility of image editing, including adapting image size and optimizing the image for quick loading, which eliminates the need for the use of other image editing applications
- independent entry and editing of an unlimited number of texts or products
- automatic archiving
- image gallery
- an advanced survey system, with a variable number of answers, an archive of prior surveys and a graphic display of results expressed in percentages
- a weather forecast
- aurrency exchange rates
- a currency converter
- system access available at any moment and from any computer with an internet connection
- an extremely simple system that can be used by users possessing only basic computer knowledge, i.e. users that can only use Microsoft Word and surf the internet
- interface in any language
- an extremely safe system which doesn’t use the standard, always easily bypassed, and expected methods of data security
- creating groups of users, with different passwords and privileges
Advantages of Pandora in relation to other CMS systems
Text editing, as the actual most important feature of any CMS system, is certainly the most special advantage of Pandora when compared to other CMS systems available. According to routine standards of journalist profession, we designed a system that thinks ahead of you. Each time you publish a new article, instead of having to edit each single text yourself; Pandora CMS does it for you. In our system the text is divided as follows:
- introductory part of the article
o Headline
- textual sections
- subhead
- a small image inserted into the text, with the choice of left or right alignment within the section
- lead with the choice of left or right alignment within the section
- the main body of text
- sections as large images in the article, the width of a full body of text
- large image
- signature below the image
- end part of the article
- author or source
- internet address of the source
- the importance of the text
- keywords, used for linking texts with previously published texts
- text status (edited, non-edited, ready for publishing, needs processing, already published)
We are certain that if someone from the journalist profession were to read this text, he would be well acquainted with terms like lead or headline. Therefore, as journalism has routine standards that have been around for over a hundred years, so Pandora CMS also uses elements of what is in publishing and journalism called text processing.
This is precisely why it turns out that all the CMS systems available, which offer advanced complicated interfaces that enable you to align text yourself and position images in various combinations, are making a great mistake in their approach, because you are actually only interested in the possibility of publishing texts and images with as little complications as possible and without needing to learn how to work with advanced techniques of text editing.
Several moments with Pandora
Working with Pandora is very simple. On this short example we will try to demonstrate the simplicity of editing new texts with our system.
Let’s say, for example, you want to publish a text that contains a small image in the upper left corner of the text, and a large image at the bottom of the text.
Using Pandora, this is what you would do:
- In Pandora you would open the column where you would like to add the article
- You write the text title
- You request a new section in the text from Pandora
- You add the small image to the section, align it to the left and input the text that accompanies it
- Then you request another section from Pandora, this one for the large image
- You add the image
- If necessary, you fill in the end part of the article (author, source, etc.) and you publish it
Your article, containing a small image in the upper left corner of the text, and a large image at the bottom of the text is now published, added to the content of your web site, and visible to your users.
The primary mistake of most companies when designing CMS systems is that they allow you to decide for yourself, for each article published, the styles and formats of the published text such as the use of bold and italic fonts, or the addition of various tabled "designer concepts". This is the reason why most web sites using CMS systems seem stylistically unordered, pilled together from scraps. Is it not more professional to define the style of a web site in advance and then be consistent about it?
A few parting words
In case you do not mind owning a messy web site, lacking a clearly defined style, then Pandora CMS is not for you. In that case, we would suggest you purchase a CMS system which enables you to edit text display on your web site yourself, starting with a blank white space, and ending up with whatever idea came to your mind at that moment.
However, if you would like your web site to have a clearly defined, memorable style, similar to those seen on the portals that consist our WNN network, then Pandora CMS is the only suitable system for you.
As an added bonus in the case you decide to do business with us, we offer the possibility for your web portal to join our web portal network, completely free of charge of course, which would provide you with a free way of ensuring a large number of visits to your web pages. You can find more information about the CNN network on our web site. |
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