Sitefinity CMS is a flexible ASP.NET-based content management platform that is used for the construction and management of commercial websites, community portals, intranets, etc. The product's architecture leverages the .NET development patterns, including Master Pages, templates, standard and user controls, themes and CSS. Sitefinity CMS is engineered with flexibility and extensibility in mind to give developers the freedom they need to integrate legacy applications or use custom 3rd party controls and modules.

Online Administration

The CMS can be completely managed through a web browser - end-users can upload files as well as manage page content and organization online.

Workflow Engine

In Sitefinity you can define the workflow process and ensure that new or modified content passes through a process of approval before going live. It can be easily enabled or disabled and can be applied on a content and page level.

Versioning

Sitefinity supports different versions of the same content and allows for rollback and comparison to previous versions. Every time a user modifies content, a copy is created in the Database – the old version is not deleted, but stored together with the newer versions. Versioning provides a more powerful alternative to keeping backup files. It can be applied to pages, page templates and any content.

File Manager

Sitefinity incorporates its own manager to streamline an easy and effective file upload. Users can delete, copy, move any kind of files necessary for website construction and organize them into folders.

User Friendly Interface

Sitefinity provides an intuitive role-based user interface that offers quick access to all functions of the CMS and is easy to navigate. A context-help system has been integrated into the UI, so that users can quickly reference help topics, depending on the page they are currently viewing.

Drag-N-Drop Content Editing

Sitefinity provides an extremely convenient drag and drop interface for visual construction of web pages. Business users can move different page elements and quickly organize the page structure – drag an element from the control toolbar, replace or move it around and easily fill the page cells with content.The “editing” interface is almost identical to the live page allowing content managers to see how the page will look when published.

WYSIWYG Editor with Spellchecker

Sitefinity ships with the Telerik RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX, the leading WYSIWYG rich-text editor, winner of a number of prestigious industry awards. RadEditor is equipped with a powerful toolbar that could be fully customized, out-of-the-box XHTML output, full keyboard accessibility, integrated inline spellchecker and industry-best cross-browser support.

Content Sharing and Branching

Sitefinity’s native content reuse model to distributes content across multiple web pages within a single or multiple projects. Whenever one instance of shared content is updated, all pages where the same item appears are updated simultaneously. This feature is especially convenient when there are users responsible for editing content only, while others are responsible for adding the modules to Web Pages.

Modules Included With Sitefinity

Blogs Module

The Sitefinity Blog’s publishing system supports workflow and completely streamlines the management of single or multiple user blogs. Additionally, it’s extremely easy to implement the module - business users can add it to the website by visually configuring the module.

Discussion / Forum Module

Sitefinity features a pluggable forum module. It offers easy manipulation of multiple forums on your website from a single management interface. Forum administrators can swiftly create forums, start new threads, edit and delete individual messages and assign permissions to different users through the Sitefinity’s admin area. You can also use categories to classify and organize different forums.

Images and Documents Module

The Documents and Images module serves as a central repository for all sorts of documents and files. Using the module content authors can easily search for resources and reuse different elements throughout the site (for example add a specific photo in multiple pages on the website. End users can create public libraries (for example photo gallery in the “Events” page of the website) by simply dragging a control from the Sitefinity Toolbox onto the page and choosing the images that should be displayed. The module also facilitates the migration of images and files to a new database project and automatically updates the image or documents paths as needed.

Video library and Amazon S3 support

Sitefinity 3.6 (on .NET 3.5 only) includes video library support through RadMediaPlayer for Silverlight. With this introduction business users can add video content to their websites quickly and easily. Sitefinity v3.6 also provides a data provider for video libraries using Amazon S3 and Viddler for data storage and streaming

Events Calendar

Sitefinity ships with an Events Module that makes it easy for users to schedule and announce events through their web site and display them on a calendar or a list. The module incorporates Telerik’s RadScheduler, providing the standard abilities to manipulate events (create, view, update, delete). With the module you can manage tags, categories and comments. Additionally the Events Module has a special panel for working with geo-mapping settings.

Lists Module

The Lists module provides a simple and efficient way of organizing FAQs, contacts, interviews, testimonials, instructions, tasks, to‐do lists, links, dictionaries, etc. It allows you to create logically related list items, each of which has a headline and content. You create these items using the Lists module and then display the list on the Web page by simply dragging a Lists control. The main advantage of the Lists module is that it eliminates the need to format items while writing content, as all formatting comes from the css files and themes.

Wiki Module

The built in Wiki module is a great way to host and manage community generated content. Users can create and edit any number of interlinked web pages using the award winning WYSIWYG editor directly from their browser. The wiki module provides for comments, history, rollback of changes and search functionality out of the box.

Polls Module

With Sitefinity Polls module, users can quickly create Polls for their sites through an intuitive user interface. It literally takes a few minutes to create a new Poll and publish it on the website.

Search Engine

Sitefinity offers an advanced search service that allows you to quickly and easily find information managed by the CMS. The search indexes both modules and static content and allows you to define which parts of the site are being searched and how the search results are displayed. By using the search content authors can instantly find where certain keywords are used on the website and quickly and efficiently update content. Additionally, those users who have permissions to edit the page layout can visually add the search control onto the page without any programming knowledge. The Search Box and Search Results controls (as all other Sitefinity custom controls) can be added with simple drag-and-drop.

Site Map

Sitefinity automatically creates a Sitemap of the website and keeps users up to date with any navigational changes. An automated Sitemap also ensures that search engines can find and index all pages without additional effort.