Content Management

HCMS - The Hitchman Content Management System

Our award-winning content management system enables you to change the words and pictures on your website through a simple control panel. This means that the cost of running and maintaining your website can be kept to a minimum because cheaper admin resources can be used to look after the website rather than web developers... or you can do it yourself for free!

Our content management system includes the following features:

• Full page management facilities, enabling you to change the website copy without having to worry about the page layout and design.
• Image tools, enabling you to upload your pictures to the website and resize & manipulate them to fit the page.
• Page creation function, enabling you to create unlimited pages and popus that all follow the site design.
• Navigation menu functions enabling you to maintain your horizontal and vertical menu bars, including wave-over/drop-down menu systems.
• Online form and survey creation functions.
• News and events functions (with diary or list views)
• Gallery functions.
• Forum functions.
• E-commerce functions (optional extra) with full shopping cart, order management, import/export to Sage, invoiceing etc.
• Affiliate systems (enabling you to pay commission on sales from the e-commerce system)
• Membership functions (optional extra)
• Directory systems (optional extra)
• Do it yourself Search Engine Optimisation functions (optional extra)
• Site statistics by month (showing hits per day, average per hour, referring sites etc.)
• Simple Web mailing facility, enabling you to collect opt-in email addresses and circulate news letters or mailings to customers/subscribers
• Backup/restore facility (to secure any changes made to website)
• Control panel User Maintenance facility
• File library enabling files such as brochures, spreadsheets, presentations etc. to be uploaded to the site and made available to customers for download.
• Table maintenance facility