Features Wondering what WebGUI can offer your business? Because WebGUI
is constantly evolving, the following list of features barely skims the
surface of WebGUI’s capabilities. Visit www.plainblack.com often to
keep up to date on all of WebGUI’s developments.


User Friendly


Absolutely easy to use. Most users can pick up the interface with
little or no training. This means your staff can be maintaining the
site right away. If you can use a web browser, you can use WebGUI.


Inline WYSIWYG content editors. Built in editors for IE and Mozilla.


Per user UI Levels allow you to “dumb down” the interface to suit each content manager’s skill level.


Upload images and other files directly through the UI, no need for FTP/SFTP.


Integrated online help, complete with hoverhelp on most form fields.


Javascript wizards that help users who don’t know HTML, but want to customize their content.


Integrated versioning makes it easy to undo mistakes.

Ultimate Flexibility


Pluggable wobject architecture for extensibility in applications.


Pluggable macro architecture for even further extensibility and flexibility.


Extensible meta-data support allows you to add any arbitrary attributes to content that you wish.


Customizable dynamic navigation configuration allows you to create almost any kind of navigation system you wish.


Static HTML exports for offline sites and high traffic sites.


Completely extensible user profiling system.


Passive profiling system allows you to keep track of what your users
are doing, and then display content that meets their browsing habits.


Integrated internationalization and localization support.


Runs on almost any operating system.


Modular design so the code is easy to update, change, and replace.

Maximum Content Control


Configurable template engine for maximum layout flexibility.


Static HTML exports for offline sites and high traffic sites.


Dynamic URLs for easier marketing. This keeps the URL short rather than being terribly long:


Theirs: example.com/garden/tools/showproduct.asp?prodID=352


WebGUI: example.com/shovel


Prequery dynamic URLs for search engine and web statistics
friendliness. The bold part is not easily indexed by many search
engines and web stats software.


Theirs: example.com/garden/tools/showproduct.asp?prodID=352


WebGUI: example.com/shovel


Complete separation of style from the content allowing easy and quick updates.


Template management system allows for quick and powerful page layout changes.


Package management system for rapid deployment of reusable content.


Integrated image and asset management.


Clipboard interface to easily cut and paste pages and content.


Date control over when content is published and removed.

Commerce


Built in shopping cart for selling products online.


Integrated payment gateway allows you to collect payments online via
Master Card, Visa, American Express, Discover, and even personal checks.


Subscription payments allow you to charge weekly, monthly, yearly, etc for ongoing services.


Subscription codes allow you to sell online services in bulk to large organizations.


Security


OSI Certified Open Source Software - Therefore, of high quality and freely distributable.


Pluggable authentication for maximum flexibility and security.


Configurable user-level authentication against WebGUI database or against an LDAP server.


Unlimited groups and groups of groups.


Easy to use role-based security system.


Many administrator configurable settings for ultimate control over site function and appearance.


MD5 encrypted passwords.


SSL logins (with use of an SSL enabled Web Server)


Trash system as a failsafe for administrators.


Versioning system ensures no accidental loss of content.


Audit trail tracks who did what to each piece of content.


Commercial support available.

Built-In Applications


Forums (Flat, Nested, and Threaded views)


SQL Report (Drill down and hierarchical queries enabled)


Polls


Classifieds


Web Log (blog)


Photo Gallery


News


FAQs


Link Directories


Job Postings


User Contributions


Syndicated News (includes aggregation)


Events Calendars


Surveys


Self-Grading Tests


Articles


Search Engine


Web Services Front End


Matrix Comparison System


Weather Data


Stock Data


Dashboard (My Page)


In/Out Board


Project Management


Time Tracking


Contributed applications

Compliance


Generates pages that are compliant with all major browsers dating back
to the 4.0 era, including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera,
Konquerer, Firefox, Galeon, Lynx, and Links.


The administrative interface works with all recent versions of Internet
Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, and Mozilla. (Safari support is being
worked on.)


Section 508 compliant.