Features and Benefits of Ekklesia 360

Some of the great features of your website, using the Ekklesia 360 Content Management System (CMS), include:

  • Ease of use – The system's design is purposefully simple and straightforward. Non-technical users are able to quickly login and easily manage the website and enter content.
     
  • The power of Revolutionary Technology – The system is not based on yesterday's technology. It allows you complete flexibility in your designs and ability to interact with third party applications because of the forward-thinking philosophy and belief in web standards.
     
  • Gather more visitors to your website – The CMS is designed to be more than just a Content Management System, it is a Content 'Distribution' System that can connect a website to a network of sites which gathers more people to your clients. In addition, the url structures are Search Engine Optimization (SEO) friendly to best position you on search engines.
     
  • A secure Future Proof Architecture – The CMS was built to ensure it is able to continue to improve as technology does. It can do this because of the advanced architecture that separates content publishing, your critical data and the website's graphic design.
     
  • Web-Based Content Management System (CMS) – The system is web-based, which means that you can have multiple people log in and contribute. The User Management of the CMS allows the Site Administrator to determine the roles and permissions for users. The permission-based system allows control down to the granular level, such as read, write and publish privileges.  For example, a person who enters new events may only be able to edit events but not able to publish these to the website. Since the system is web-based, there is no additional commercial software that needs to be installed on your computer. The software can also be accessed from any Internet connected computer anywhere in the world; from work, at home, or on the move.
     
  • Content Creation and Editing – Administrators have access to create, edit, and delete items such as pages, articles, blog posts, sections, podcasts, event, media and lists on the website. The navigation menu can also be edited based on permissions.
     
  • WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor – The system allows clients to add new content to their site in a visual manner. What users see in their editing environment is what they get when the content is published. Users have the ability to manipulate the arrangement, size, and look of content with the integrated WYSIWYG editor. It is as simple as using Microsoft Word. Fishhook will set the styles of the WYSIWYG Editor during our design phase.
     
  • Responsive Design (for custom sites) - In short, responsive design means that your website is using technology NOT to meet the requirements of any one specific platform, but to anticipate the wide array of possible interactions with your website, and building the site to "respond" to that interaction. In essence, you have one site to rule them all. The greatest advantage to responsive design is that you're creating content only once. The website itself, from your single domain name, will reposition, reformat, and sometimes reduce that content depending on the amount of space available on the user's device, whether it's a phone, tablet or desktop computer.

Website Functionality Detail

  • Full color/Theme Customization
     
  • Social Networking Integration
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • Vimeo
       
  • Content Management
    • Unlimited site administrators and users
    • WYSIWYG with Microsoft Word formatting and code-based editor
    • Front-end editing: "Easy Edit" functionality
    • Custom navigation, page titles and URLs
    • Custom RSS feeds
    • Google analytics and Google compliant sitemap
    • Scheduled publishing and expiration of pages
    • Page auditing and version control with restore
    • Publication and user assigned roles with optional document approval process.
    • SEO Best Practices: clean URLS, access to edit meta and description tags.
    • Template management for additional layouts
    • Easily manage lists of staff (display name, phone, email, photo, bio, etc.)
  • Sermons and Media
    • Scripture integration
    • User defined sermon series and categories
    • Easily add audio, video, images and docs
    • Custom video player available
    • Audio and video sermons
    • Podcasting and Vodcasting functionality
    • Bulk file upload for easy transfer
    • Photo & Flash galleries
    • Custom image rotators
    • Amazon S3 support for media storage
    • iTunes and SermonCloud.com integration
  • Events & Maps
    • Unlimited one-time and recurring events. Manage event recurrence exceptions.
    • Event RSVP with optional payments
    • Event lists and custom calendar views
    • Google Maps integration
    • Event RSVP with optional payments
    • iCal support
  • Articles & Blogs
    • Scheduled publishing and expiration of articles
    • RSS feeds compatible with Feedburner
    • Easy management of multiple blogs
    • Unlimited articles with custom RSS feeds
    • Comment administration & moderation
    • User defined article series and categories 
  • Administration & Management
    • W3C Compliant Code
    • Advanced site searching with snippet results
    • User friendly CMS used by over 4,000 organizations worldwide
    • Customizable dashboard
    • Server management and optional SLA
    • System maintenance and hosting
    • Software as a service with nothing to install
    • Web-Based account control panel. Compatible on major browsers for Mac & PC
    • Ongoing development and enhancements
    • Outreach Module with free membership to The Cloud Network (thecloudnetwork.com)
    • Additional discounts on Cobblestone Community Network (cobblestonecn.com)

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