Content management
The CMS, developed by Hoop, delivers a true WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing environment, giving site editors an intuitive way to make better websites.
Making content management simple
Hoop believe that all website owners should have control over the content of their websites. A successful website is wholly dependent on updating and refreshing content.
Good for search
Search engine page rankings favour sites that regularly publish relevant content. Updating content - whether through news, events, blogs, articles, or otherwise - increases site visitors belief in a companies business online because it appears current and therefore relevant.
Write it as it's read
From experience we know that the best way for an editor to understand the medium in which they are writing is to add content directly into the page as it will be finally seen by site visitors. To be really useful the editing environment also needs to be as easy to use as possible.
Why not start from scratch
Dissatisfied with the design and usability of available content management systems (CMS), and driven by the desire to create the best editing environment for website content managers, we set about making our own, truly, 'what you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG) CMS environment.
Our approach is a sophisticated deployment of the open source LAPP (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP) environment. The true, javascript driven, WYSIWYG editing environment allows editors to create pages as they will actually look.
As non-technical as it can be
Our W3C Standards based CMS is built for non-technical users and enables them to create and edit web content.
It enables users to manage accessible, search engine friendly websites with very little guidance and little formal training. Most users attain a working familiarity in a few hours. No coding or complicated layout is involved, simply type or paste in the text and format using predefined style settings.
In the WYSIWYG environment editors navigate the website in the CMS using the same navigational interface as site visitors making it easy to find and edit existing pages and add new ones.
Universal tag implementation allows easy and extensive aggregation of site content such as blogs, news, pages, images, video etc.
Key benefits of simple content management
Hoop believe in making tools that work, that do what we say they will, nothing more, nothing less.
The benefits for site visitors provided by the CMS
- the website is accessible and meets current web standards
- the website is viewable in any modern web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6+, Mozilla Firefox / Camino, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera version 7+)
- the website will still be readable and usable for those using older browsers
- the user can subscribe to RSS feeds, for example; news or blog posts
- the navigation is logical, it's always clear where you are, where you've been and where you can go
- the page title is consistent with the navigation
- search results are consistent with actual page content
- the design layout, and therefore the experience, is consistent.
The benefits for site administrators provided by the editing environment
- it's easy and quick to use
- it's easy to create and manage frequently updated sections such as news
- the navigation structure is always organised logically
- it's easy to format text within a consistent style for the website
- It's easy to insert images, video and PDF documents into a page
- quickly create links to other pages using 'feature boxes'
- pages are edited in an environment that, as closely as possible, reflects the layout of the page as it will be seen by site visitors
- it's easy to upload and manage images and documents using the asset manager
- add descriptions and captions to images and documents for screen readers and search engine indexing.
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