Simple
SkyBlueCanvas allows you, the site owner, to keep your site content fresh using the skills you already have. If you can use a word processor, you can write your site's text. You can upload your photos and other art work directly from your browser with a few clicks of your mouse (4 clicks to be exact).
SkyBlueCanvas uses easy-to-understand menus, buttons, and forms to give you the power to change the text and artwork on your site. In most cases, it is just point, click, type and the content is changed.
Feature Summary:
- Easy-to-use
- Easy-to-install
- XML Data Storage (no database required)
- Extensible
- Skinnable
- Flexible Plugin API
- Small in size (3.5MB)
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict output
- Search Engine Friendly URLs (requires mod_rewrite)
- Customizable Meta Tags (globally or by page)
- Built-in all-CSS drop-down menus*
- Built-in Portfolio Manager
- Built-in Custom Form builder
* Well, almost all-CSS. Unfortunately, a tiny bit (20 lines) of JavaScript code is required for compatibility with Internet Explorer.
Portfolio Manager Features:
- Skinnable separately from page skins
- Thumbnail, Title or Numeric item navigation
- Link items to external sites
- Portfolio Categories
- Item groups (for alternate or multiple views)
Complete List of Available Add-ons
- Articles
Organize your site text in categorized articles.
- Sales Associates
If you have regional sales associates, you can organize them by region.
- Case Studies
Show case studies of your product or service with WYSIWYG text editing.
- Multiple Contacts
Enable your contact form to show multiple contacts within your organization.
- Events
Show a list of upcoming events on your web site.
- FAQs
Add an FAQ page to your web site.
- Form/Survey Builder
Build your own forms and surveys to use on your site. FormBuilder allows you to create custom forms, specify field types and validate the user input. The respnonses to your form can be emailed to one or multiple addresses or witten to a text file.
- Interviews
Include interviews in which you have participated on your site.
- Links
List links to useful resources by category. You can even include a description for each link.
- News
The news extension allows you to add news announcements to your site.
- Strategic Partners
Does your organization have strategic alliances with other businesses? With this extension you can include a link to your partner's sites and include a blurb and image.
- Staff Bios
People like to know with whom they are doing business. This extension allows you to include photos, bios and contact info for your staff.
- Gallery/Portfolio
Photo galleries are one of the most popular features on any website. This extension allows you to include a categorized photo gallery. The gallery can be displayed with one of four navigation styles: thumbnails, numbered items, text links or a slide show.
- Press
Has your organization been in the press? This extension allows you to include the full text and/or a link to the original item.
- Teasers
Displaying a short intro on your home page that points to content on other pages is a great way to entice site visitors to go deeper into your site. This extension creates what we call teasers to draw site visitors into your site.