Commercially Supported Drupal Websites

Complete website platforms fully customised to enhance, assist and drive your business online. The ultimate solution for taking control of your own website by having extensive login access for all facets of your organisation to manage their online responsibilities.

Maximising your online opportunities involves integrating online functionality throughout your business processes. This includes providing staff only access areas of your website for internal information sharing. Location of your employees becomes insignificant if everyone can have a central business hub via a secure login on the internet.

Automate customer enquiries and sales via online contact forms, provide brochure dowloads and product information. Provide your clients with premium content areas for their eyes only.

The key to having your website built by ANSO is that anything is possible. Our advanced media content management system websites are limitless in their development options. The primary reason for this being that we use the world leading open source Drupal development core. Open source means that there are thousands of developers globally that are sharing and testing every new piece of functionality as one community. All of this functionality can be installed and configured by our experienced web integration specialists.

ANSO's primary objective when building your ANSO Drupal Website is to provide real tools and ehancements for your business.

The heart of any highly functional website is a solid content management system. The Drupal core is one of the most tried and tested in the world. It is used in thousands of business and social media websites around the world.

Standard functionality for any website platform built by ANSO is the ability to login to the administration controls of your website and easily manage your own content such as updating existing text, adding new pages, altering menu items, updating your meta tags for search optimisation or uploading and managing website images through a functional image browsing interface

Login to your own website and take complete control of your web activities.

The core principle is to take control of your own website on a day-to-day basis. This becomes a fluid tool for your business to promote your latest products and services and provide current sales and technical information to your clients, Additionally this provides new and updated content to search engines on a regular basis which is an increasingly important factor in ranking well in Google and the other search engines.

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Direct Web Content Editing

Adding new pages and updating pages is easy in your ANSO Drupal Website. One major advantage is the seamless integration with one of the most widely used WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) editors, pronounced "Wis-e-wig editor" and also known in the site as the "Rich Text" editor. This essentially gives you a document with similarities to Microsoft Word as it has icons and right click for different formatiing and functionality options.

Create your own contet with the integrated "Rich Text Editor".

Some of the functionality included is text alignment, bolding and italics, inserting links, assigning paragraph headings creating tables and accessing the image browser. Everything designed in the webpage is automatically converted to HTML code, which means there are some limitations compared with your PC installed design software, but it is cutting edge for direct web editing.

 

Image Uploading and Browsing

Adding new images to your website is a breeze. Simply click the "Image" button in your Rich Text Editor and it opens a popup to privode an image URL and confidure your image display. Alternatively to providing a direct image URL you can then select the integrated image browser system to upload images directly from your PC or select existing images that have already been uploaded. Automated thumbnail creation for alternative image use and other image management is included in the image browing system.

Direct image upload and management capabilities.

No more using FTP to upload your images and then calling them through code, the Rich Text Editor combined with the highly functional image browsinga dn upload brings the web to a whole new level of ease-of-use.

 

Dynamic Menu Management

Complete management of your website menu systems. Change or add new menu items for new pages and have the menu items immediatley updated throughout all relevant pages on the website. Reposition your menus into a different order via the ease of drag-and-drop positioning. Include multiple menus in different positions of your layout or on different pages. Have additional menus appear for different user roles.

Navigation of your website is one of the most important factors from an end users perspective. Easily navigating through the content on your site to find the information required is the primary objective of most website users.

Keep your website menus relevant and current. Customise the navigation of your website to suit your current business needs. Have complete control of your menus and navigation on a day-to-day basis.

 

Access Control - Premium Content, Client and Staff Content Areas

All visitors and users of an ANSO Drupal Website are governed by roles and permissions. Anonymous visitors can see all public content only. Where required we can then configure websites to have different roles where each user that logs into the website is matched to a specific role. This role is then goverened by certain permissions.

Utilising a variety of different access control methods we can provide premium content areas for logged in users only, to create client or staff only content on the website. Make your company documents and information available to all staff via your website with a secure login, or provide technical information to existing clients only that have been provided with login details.

Additionally provide your staff with different permissions, some staff to access private content only, other staff to update certain types of content and other staff with complete administrator priviledges to alter and update all aspects of the website.

Access control can be as simple or as complex as your business requires. We can set sound processes for input of your web content to ensure it is viewed by the correct eyes, while also maintaining complete flexibility and maximum usage of your web platform for your business.

 

Web Forms - Contact Forms, Enquiry Forms and Online Surveys

Completely dynamic creation of forms for collection of information from web users. From simple email contact and enquiry forms to compete surveys with many questions and input fields. Entered data can be sent via email and is also stored in the submission results, for viewing, analysing and downloading. Ensure you never lose an email enquiry by also storing an easily accessible record of it in your website.

All forms can be edited by the website owner/administrator via an intuitive interface without knowing any programming code. Add an extra text input field, update a drop-down selection to include extra options, ask an additional question on your contact form. Easily make any fields mandatory for the form. Total control of your online data collection without contacting your web developer.

 

Panels, Views, Blocks and Custom Content Types

The greatest strength of an ANSO Drupal Website is the complete integration of all functionality. Utilising some major enhancement modules that completely integrate to form the most powerful management, display, categorisation, filtering and layout of content for complete flexibility. Custom Content Types enable you to have different input forms for different types of content in your website (eg. products, services, news, FAQs, advertisements). These content types can be customised to have specific fields for content input to ensure you provide your content in a consistent and customised manner.

Next is the "Views" functionality which can do the most amazing content queries and filtering to display your content in any manner imaginable. Your custom content types gives your views the ability to call specific fields from specific content types with an endless number of display options.

Display your View into a page, or into a block which can be drawn in as separate content in another page. Or ultimately, display you blocks, views and pages into Panels for display and layout of many different pieces of content.

This is highly complex functionality, and in most cases your ANSO Drupal Website will include your custom views being created by our expert developers. As the website owner/administrator you will be more focused on adding new content to your website and adding/positioning content in your Panels and Blocks.

Blocks - Content Within Content

The term "blocks" is widely used throughout an ANSO Drupal Website. Blocks are a mechanism where by you can position blocks of content in different places throughout the website. One piece of content (some text or an image) might be displayed in a "block" on the side of another piece of content. This is common practise in a highly functional web platform, being able to control the layout of your content. Blocks are part of the core Drupal platform functionality and can be integrated with, or utilised by many other functionality modules.

Views - Custom Display Configuration of Content

 

Panels - Advanced Content Layout

One of the most required features in modern web publishing is flexibility of content positioning when laying out content in your pages. In fact we prefer to say positioning your pages within your panels. An ANSO Drupal Website includes the most advanced "Panel" layout technology including the integration of your custom views, blocks, pages and all other custom content types, to pull all of your content into one easy layout mechanism. Our latest platforms utilise AJAX for content positioning, which enables drag-and-drop functionality to provide the most intuitive web layout functionality available.

Below is an example of the "Panel Content Layout" administration page with drag-and-drop between different page positions.

Panel content

Update your main Panel pages easily and efficiently. Usually your higher level main product or service pages will utilise Panels to display a number of different pieces of content. For example, your main site front Panel might include teasers to a number of service pages, with another block potitioned in the panel to display latest news. From a clean and simple business website that uses a number of different pieces of content on the front of their site, to a full newspaper that might display 30 different blocks and pages within a single Panel for a major category. The scope of flexibility and possibility is limited only by your imagination and experience.

 

Sitemap - Automated Search Engine Submission

The most advanced integration with the worlds largest search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Not to be confused with the old website submission services to get your website listed for the first time. This is full integration, submitting a complete sitemap of all your website content to the search engines on a daily basis. Fully supported by the major search engines as their preferred method of keeping search listings updated. New and updated content can be reflected in search listings in a matter of days, instead of the old sit-and-hope methods of obtaining search listings that can take weeks or even months to be updated, which is still a reality for many website owners.

Be confident that your website is being reflected in Google in an efficient and current perspective. Add new content to your website knowing that it will be readily available for Google search results as quickly as possible.