CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
ICON’s basic content management solution allows administrators to use web-based tools to add/modify and delete pages within their website. No software is required to administer to content, and the site can be administered to from any location with an Internet connection.

The toolset requires that the site’s primary categories—categories that are at the top of the navigation tree—are decided on and fixed prior to development. From these fixed categories, administrators can create any number of subcategories with content. And from these subcategories, administrators can once again produce sub-pages with content.

The tool allows administrators to designate new pages including their place in the navigation hierarchy, delete pages from the site, automatically deleting it from the navigation, or select a single page and make modifications to its content.

Adding a new page requires an administrator to drop content into a preset “template”. This template effectively represents a large, blank page with the proper navigation, headers and footers already established on the page. Administrators are responsible for the content in between, including any HTML tags, hyperlinks or image references made from that page. The toolset allows administrators to maintain a “library” of images that can be dropped into the site. This library is always available online, reducing the number of images that are misplaced post production.

This basic administration tool allows users to quickly publish new content, or revise existing materials in an instant, from any Internet location. Some HTML publishing skills to establish fonts, styles and images will be required using this tool. Other modules described below allow for more precise control over specific elements within the site, requiring less HTML authoring, and improved control over specific data.