1. More Creativity, Less Complexity

Usability has been improved by allowing even more ways to add that creative touch to documents published through Site Director with the simplicity our clients have asked for.

Some highlights include:

• Add a link to another site with a quick right or control click.
• Now get a more realistic text area view prior to Previewing on both leading browsers.
  
• Share ideas and collaborate by printing the formatted text box within the editor.
  
• Reuse text from MS Word and skip the cleanup process with a new “Code Sweeper” tool!
  

2. Simplify Shipping Tasks

UPS and FedEx have greatly improved their services for businesses who sell products over the Internet. Auto calculation of shipping options, rates, handling charges, and dimensional weight fees are available for clients using Site Director Products and E-commerce services.

3. Diversify Your Store

As people purchase more online, more creative product options will be offered. In order to assist our clients in differentiating their products online, we have enabled up to two additional product options such as 'color', 'model' or 'size' that can be set added per product.

4. Capture Bargain Hunters

Internet users are always looking for a good deal. Now you can add a Sale Price in addition to the List Price to show buyers the difference on a per product basis.

5. Work With Peace Of Mind

Creating powerful and compelling articles and other communications is a great benefit of Site Director. We certainly do not want that work to be lost if you accidentally click a link or try to close the window you are working on. To prevent this loss, a confirmation alert will prevent the window from being closed, reloaded, or changed when something is being worked on.

6. Simplified Support

As organizations grow, more opportunities emerge to get involved in the growing editorial process. These additional team members need to be supported and many organizations like the option of supporting them in their own way. This has been enabled within Site Director now via a help form that can be filled out by any Director and forwarded to their support personnel or ours.

Additionally, a suggestions form is next to the help link so sending in suggestions and comments is a cinch. We want to know how we can help make things easier, clearer, and more effective so you can meet your goals!

7. Modify Security In A Snap

Groups

A great benefit of Site Director is how easy it is for multiple people to collaborate and contribute their expertise. Enabling and modifying security privileges has sometimes taken a bit longer than we liked so we made a few improvements.

The Groups system – which forms the backbone of the access policy for Site Director – has been greatly improved for simplicity and speed. Now the most common task of adjusting category permissions is available in a single click from the Groups list. For those of you counting clicks, that is a two click savings!

8. Reduced Resource Library Maintenance

The value of having a common set of up-to-date downloadable resources for your staff and partners only grows as the library grows. However, the maintenance of these documents grows too. To reduce the time spent in managing these libraries, you can now replace both the original document as well as the thumbnail at the same time. Do more in less time while still keeping everyone else in the know.

Name

Description

Articles

Article pages can be created and modified by Customer. Available fields for display include title, subtitle, teaser image, teaser text, publish date, category and body.

Bios

Bio pages can be created and modified by Customer. Available fields for display include first name, last name, title, and body along with teaser image.

Dealer/Store Locator

This Locator can be searched by keyword, area code and zip code and enables Customer to add, modify and delete entries.

E-Newsletter

Includes the ability to create and send out visual & text emails to a double opt-in membership list. This includes the ability for members to manage their email preferences as they see fit. The ability to manage the Audience, Campaign, and view Response analytics is included.

Events

Event pages can be created and modified by Customer. Available fields for display include title, teaser image, teaser text, start date/time, end date/time, and description.

Event Registration

An extension of Events, Customer will have the ability to set up online registrations for specified Events. Event Registrations will give Customer the ability to set the full price of the event, a deposit if desired, and entry limit. If desired, the payment for each event will be submitted through the Shopping Cart. Customer can view an online report of all entries for each event with registration.

Gallery

An extension of the Media Library, Customer will have the ability to publish a Download/Gallery section which can include imagery, audio files, video files, PDF’s, and various other files available for download.

Global Search

This search tool will allow your visitors and subscribers to search modifiable content by keyword and view organized results.

Landing Pages

Landing Pages can be modified by Customer. The field available for display is the body as Landing Pages are single pages used for slower changing content such as About Us, Privacy Policy, Search Engine Doorway Pages, etc.

Links

Links can be created and modified by Customer. Available fields for display include title, url, category, and description.

Media Library

Media Library items can be created and modified by Customer. Enables Customer to store and utilize supported types of binary files including imagery, audio, video, PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, zip and others within content bodies or within a Gallery.

Products

Product pages can be created and modified by Customer. Available fields for display include title, code/sku, list price, discounted price, two pull down option fields, teaser image, teaser text, product image, product thumbnail, and a description.

Product Overviews

Product Overview pages can be created and modified by Customer. These are designed to group individual products and display with links to individual products along with an Overview description.

Purchase Reports

Available in the Site Director Administration Area, enables Customer to search previous purchases with the following search criteria: date (time span), product title, keyword, dealer/customer name, dealer/customer email, or order number.

Reporting

Enables Customer to see general site traffic statistics (maximum of 100,000 log entries) in the Site Director Administration Area.

Security Roles

This administrative function enables Customer to assign security roles for different access and publishing privileges within the Site Director Administration Area.

Shopping Cart

This is a session based shopping cart where specified products can be sold online. Enthusiast will use this shopping cart with a credit card option to complete the transaction. An alert will be sent to a specified email address. Customer will be responsible to have a web server security certificate. Customer will be required to establish and financially maintain the online merchant account and gateway. Customer will be fully responsible for fulfillment of all orders. All credit card information will be solely retained by Customer and/or the transaction gateway provider.