Features

Utilising the latest technology to deliver advanced website features

Firebird has been built with user-friendliness as our number one priority, both for website administrators and for developers.

Entirely built using Microsoft's ASP.Net technology has enabled high levels of reliability while introducing a host of powerful new features.

Firebird CMS comes packed with a rich set of advanced features right out of the box. Most companies will not need anything more to keep their website up to date and fresh with new content. And for those needing specific functionality, add-on modules are available.

Firebird CMS editions are available to meet your requirements, please see our Introduction and functional specifications documents as below.

 Introducing FirebirdCMS

 FirebirdCMS Feature Specification 

Core Features

• Role-based security providing multiple levels of access - Assign editing rights across multiple business units, restricting access to the areas you choose. Varying levels of access can be assigned.
   
• WYSIWYG editor - Easily update and create pages using our fully-featured Rich Text Editor with full preview capability.
   
• Easy addition of new templates in Masterpage format - Create new templates in .Net's Master Page format and easily change templates on the fly on existing pages.
   
• Strong Web Standards Support – Fully XHTML compliant to W3C specifications, Firebird creates code that conforms to the latest web standards.
   
• Web 2.0 Features (yes, that means Ajax) – Expect to see this grow more into our manager over time, but you can make use of it today in your own custom applications including live search, web effects, Ajax communications and more.
  NEW: Now you can easily integrate Web 2.0 features such as Google Maps, YouTube, and Flickr through our EmbedControl function.
   
• Works in your favorite browser – You can manage your websites from anywhere in the world with an internet connection and IE 7+, Firefox 1.5+, and Opera.
   
• Improved Rich Text Editors – Our Page Editor provides 'what you see is what you get' content and html editing with an extensive range of editing and image manipulation features .
   
• Better handling of aliases and menu indexes – Search Engine Friendly aliases are automatically created from the page titles and the system will check for alias conflicts before saving a page.
   
• Improved Meta-tag and keywords controls – consider Firebird your #1 free Search Engine Optimization CMS. Firebird helps your SEO efforts by making it easier to adjust meta-content of your site on a per-page basis.
   
• Full Featured Image Library - upload your own images and easily manage, edit and place them on pages in your site.
   
• Document Library - store all site documents including PDF files, word documents, and spreadsheets for easy addition to your pages.
   
• Re-usable Content Blocks - easily create page items and re-use them across multiple pages, saving you time in content distribution.
  
  
• Publish Articles - Create news articles and syndicate news feeds to subscribers by RSS and ATOM.
  
  
• Built-in support for Breadcrumb navigation. Firebird will automatically create your breadcrumb navigation for you.
  
  
• Auto Sitemap creation. Firebird automatically creates your sitemap page ensuring it is always up-to-date, and additionally creates a google sitemap XML file for best Google ranking results!
  
  
• Intelligent File Download notifications. Use Firebird to send your file download links by email.
  
  
• Members Sign-up. Allow website visitors to signup to your members section. Firebird provides a built-in module to automate this process for you.
  
  
• Paste from MS Word. Paste your content directly from MS Word and Firebird will automatically strip out all the extra garbage that MS Word adds to your text.
  
  
• Online Payments. Sell your products on line with credit card payments via the DPS credit card payment gateway.
  
  
• Ecommerce Shop. Take online orders and ship goods directly to customers with our product catalogue and shopping cart modules. Unlimited product categories and customer profile management.
  
  
• Multi-Site. Run multiple website identities from the same installation, perfect for whitelabel ecommerce solutions and central content management control of a network of sites.
  
  
• Integrates well. With recommended third party software, adding features and functionality from best of breed solutions can be painless. See our list of recommended integrations.
   

Technical Specifications

• Built entirely in Microsft ASP.Net 2.0
• Supports MS SQL Server 2000/2005