Friday, September 03, 2010

DotNetNuke (DNN) Modules

InTimeTools Web Site Tool BeltInTimeTools® — Your Web Site "Tool Belt"

To make your web site really hum for your company, you need to elevate it beyond the "online brochure." Make sure and see our "build community online" page to incorporate interactivity into your site that your visitors will expect.

With InTimeTools, we offer our marketing skills, and teach you how to use the web tools with the skills of an artisan. With our content management system, you have a web site tool belt equipped to step up your online marketing to new dynamic heights. Let us share with you what it's all about:

DNN CMS

What is a DNN Content Management System?

DNN CMS built with STRONG infrastructure to last and to grow.A web site content management system — or CMS — is a powerful infrastructure for your web site. Our InTimeTools web kit contains a robust, comprehensive and expandable system based on the open source DotNetNuke (or DNN) system. Without getting into all the technical lingo, it's a CMS system that keeps growing in pace with market trends. It's in use all over the world and worked on continually by thousands of developers. It's tested and works. We know. KMI (that's us — Kitson Marketing InTimeTools) has been implementing DNN content management systems for clients since 2002.

This site uses InTimeTools CMS.

If you know design, you'll love our CMS web application tool because the really creative can be really creative. And if you don't know design and are not technology-savvy, this tool provides simple to use functions and features to help you create and maintain your web site content.

Some web sites need to be fancy; others don't. You have the choice. Unlike many content management systems, you don't have to have a uniform and simple look to your whole site...and yet you can if that's what you need.

 

DNN CMS Nuts and Bolts

Soaring Web Site Performance You Want

InTimeTools Web Tools and DNN Content Management System You are in the pilot's seat in flying the site...that is, if you want to be. Or we can fly it for you if you like. We hope you'll give us a call for a personal demo. Here is a list of a few of the web tools you can employ with our InTimeTools content management system.

Skins — this is the "look and feel" of your site. The graphics of the overall page with a space for content. With our CMS, you apply a skin site-wide in one spot in your CMS system, which is very easy. The design can be custom; or using a template.

Pages — Add, edit and delete them as you need. When a page is created, it is automatically added to the navigation. Likewise, when it's deleted, it goes away. And if you want to move pages around, you can.

Pubic Site, Extranet and Intranet — you have them all. If you just want a public site, where anyone can navigate to your pages, fine. But if you want to add to that a private extranet (for example, for a special group) you can, by giving those people login credentials (they register and receive a user name and password). It's all one system, with many options for you. By giving certain people special permissions, you can control what they can or cannot see within your site. This feature is particularly useful in building community.

What about SEO?

Search Engine Optimization — or SEO — functions are built right into the DNN content management system. There is a field for you to put page descriptions so that the Google, Yahoo and other search engine "bots" can index your pages. These descriptions are on every page. And there's a field for you to enter keywords, based on the actual content of your site and reflecting how your target markets will search for your service or products. And there's an easy-to-use spot to make sure your page titles are optimized, too.

Maybe you don't know about SEO. There are companies that make SEO their business — and perhaps your company should be using one. But if you have quality and authentic copy throughout your site. And you fill in the descriptions and keywords on each page. And your page title reflects the key points about your company and that page. Well, then, you are on your way.

Bottom line is: SEO is big and ongoing. With our CMS, you've got a respectable portion of it going with the "tool belt" you have.

DNN Modules

The "Nuts and Bolts" of our InTimeTools CMS

The nuts and bolts of DNN ModulesModules — these are functions you can add to any page within your site. They are the "nuts and bolts" to making your site work. A few examples include:

Announcements (used frequently for news events with a link to "read more")

Advertising banners (with activity logged so you can report on effectiveness)

Blog (communicate personally with those most important to your business or cause and give them an opportunity to comment on what you write; great for SEO, too)

Chat room or discussion forum (in an extranet environment, this offers a viable means for problems solving, issues addressed, knowledge bank development...)

Central library or knowledge bank or repository (permissions based and perfect for documents, spreadsheets, branding elements, graphic templates, bylaws, news archives...if it's information you want to keep and/or share, online library tools are the way to go!)

Events/calendar (calendar of events with options to register and pay, automatically place on your calendar, and email out)

Suveys, feedback forms, polls, inqueries (tools to help your site visitor communicate their opinions back to you)

Galleriesphoto, video, audio, podcasts (all media that is in vogue online and your site visitors enjoy

News Feeds (RSS) (stream industry articles into your site; or stream your articles into another site...

Ecommerce store (sell online...multiple store modules with various levels of complexity all in a neat package for you to do business!)

Wiki (popular on business intranets, this "encyclopedia-type" module enables an issue to be expressed and for those with permissions to add to the entry to make the information more complete)

Analyze Results

We don't just set you up with a web site and say, "So long!" (Although if that's what you want, we will.) We work with you on-going to monitor the results of your web site and help you with the marketing decisions on what to change, or keep, or newly implement... We show you how to monitor your site's traffic and how to read the analytic reports...and help you keep climbing higher to where you want to go. Part of the tool belt we offer are tools to gauge how you're doing.

After all, the opportunity for built-in nimbleness is wise and, gosh, the results can be astounding!

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