GuestStream Content Management System (CMS) Feature

The GuestStream CMS allows non-technical users to easily and safely manage their website content, images, and multimedia. The GuestStream Content Management System includes the following functionality and features: Homepage – Your homepage should be unique and set the tone for your entire website. GuestStream CMS websites generally have a homepage design and an interior page template that is used to display all other website pages. Custom Templates – Webpage templates are the nuts and bolts of a website. A template provides the structure for a webpage and then your content is inserted into the template. Webpage templates are custom programmed by our engineers to display your webpages professionally and consistently. Once a webpage template is created you can start adding webpages to your GuestStream CMS website.

• Create and Edit Webpages – Add an unlimited number of webpages. Create or delete new webpages at any time and your changes take effect immediately.
• Website Sections – Create or delete website sections (i.e. Local Events, Spring Events, Summer Events) and assign webpage to sections i.e., Spring Events and Summer Events are webpages within the Local Events Section
• Menus / Navigation – Automatically generate website menus with drop-down and  fly-out menus based on sections
• Contact Form - General contact form emails you directly when visitors submit the form
• Sitemap – Automatically generated sitemap and XML sitemap. The XML sitemap conforms the www.sitemaps.org  format used by Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines to properly index your website
• Webpage Icons – Add to your webpage content by using visual aides within the page. Sample icons would be small images of a tent and campfire on a National Park webpage
• Favorites Icon – The favoites icon is logo or graphic that appears in the web browser address bar and your list of favorites
• Local Weather – Current conditions and local forecasts
• RSS News Feed – Provide your visitors with headlines related to your industry or location
• Blog – Keep your visitors up to date on your business
• Site Search – allows users to search your website
• WYSIWYG webpage content editor. WYSIWYG stands for What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get. A WYSIWYG editor is used to type the text for your website and it will be easy to use for anyone familiar with Microsoft Word. Popular WYSIWYG Features:
  • Create links to your webpages or other websites
  • Upload photos and graphics and insert them into your webpages
  • Bold, Underline
  • Change Font
  • Change Text Color
  • Bulleted Lists
  • Tables
  • Paste Text Directly From Word
  • Advanced users can edit HTML code directly
  • Add media content from other website like YouTube and popular photo sharing websites
• Special Landing Pages (i.e. www.mywebsite.com/summer-sale/)
• Hidden Webpage – Hidden pages allow you to have content on your website that can only be visited by a select audience without needing to require a password and worring about the users forgetting their password. For example, you could create a private “Special Package” page that does not show up in your website menus but you can email a link to the hidden page to selected customers and staff
• SEO Tools
  • Edit the important meta tags and page information: Title, Description, Keywords, H1 Heading
  • Set your webpage file name and folder names
  • Includes a blog and social media marketing tools
• Goolge Analytics website statistics and reporting
• Use Any Domain Name – (i.e. www.mydomain.com)
• Website Hosting
  • 10 email accounts
  • 25 email aliases. An alias is a email name that does not have its own inbox. For exmaple (i.e. set up info@mydomain.com and sales@mydomain.com aliases to forward to jim@mydomain.com account)
  • 100 MB web server space
  • 500 MB email storage space (50 MB per account)
  • Additional storage space can be purchased as needed
• Customer Support – Knowledgeable and friendly phone and email support