ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (eCMS)

New Mind has created a Content Management System and integrated it with the advanced functionality of the DMS, to provide the eCMS.

Selection of features from the eCMS platform are:

Design Freedom & Page Templates

• Create page layouts from a blank canvas
• Full support for CSS styling
• Can place configurable controls anywhere on page

Optimised for Search Engines

• Friendly URLs
• Manual and automatic page meta data created
• Supports Google Analytics

Accessible Page Validation

• Page coding adheres to industry standards for accessibility

Multi-Lingual Sites

• eCMS sites can provide alternative versions in other languages
  For example, The Valleys in Wales offers the site in English and Welsh
  http://www.thevalleys.co.uk/heartandsoul/
  http://cym.thevalleys.co.uk/heartandsoul/
  http://cym.thevalleys.co.uk/heartandsoul/ 
• Search forms can be translated too, for example:
  http://nl.visitnortheastengland.com/site/accommodatie

Stage Version of Sites

• Staging of development version of pages and content for testing

Site Administration Security & Validation

• Administration users can be restricted to only certain sites and pages to maintain
• Users can be restricted to only amend stage content
• Users can be required to publish stage content for authorisation before going live

Search and Display All DMS Tourism Product

• Customizable product searches  with refine-able results
  For example, perform an accommodation search on http://www.newcastlegateshead.com/site/accommodation  
  + Results can be refined by category, grading, area and price
  + Results can be sorted
  + Results can be view on a map

Online Booking

• Accommodation availability searches 
  + including searching against other providers like LateRooms, Active Hotels.
• Booking fulfilment through checkout with credit-card payment

Itinerary Planner

• Ability to fill a shopping basket of tourism product, then plan your journey with a dynamic map to visit them.
• Alternatively, save your journey plan for another day.
• eCMS users can offer suggested journeys to visitors.

Dynamic Maps

• Dynamic maps are zoom-able and feature aerial images
• Search results shown of dynamic maps with additional search filters
• Product detail location maps can use dynamic maps

Brochure and Information Requests

• Capture requests for brochures added to the DMS
  + Fulfilment of request can be done in DMS
• Newsletter signups
• Feedback forms

Site Registration

• Ability to register on site for:
  + save and retrieve your itinerary journeys
  + view registered visitor pages
  + download registered media