The Webinfuse System
The Webinfuse System is a modular hosted website solution which allows you to manage and publish your business online. Features are modularized into groups of functionality, which allows you to choose which features you require, and only pay for what you need.
Our comprehensive hosted solution combined with professional services takes care of all aspects of running a business online. There is no software to install or upgrades to perform, you do not need to hire a programmer or be a 'techie' to manage your site. Our software is designed from the ground up to be the most intuitive and easiest to use on the market today, without sacrificing powerful features.
The Webinfuse System is currently at version 0.8, about to be released. There are many new features and modules in development, to be released soon. The following is a table of the current progress, and the anticipated version release timelines.
Version: 0.8
status: release candidate
planned release date: Mar 5, 2008
Module: Core
| Feature | status |
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| Website Management (Dashboard) Easily manage all aspects of your website's content, data, and design through a private protected administration area called the dashboard. All features are designed to follow a real life business user's workflow and perspective. This means features are intuitive and user friendly, as well as extremely useful. Simplicity of use is promoted, while providing 'power user' features as well. |
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| Content Management System (CMS) Allows you to manage the content of your web pages in your website. This includes the text, pictures, and downloadable assets within the content areas. |
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| Visually edit content pages using a 'wysiwyg' editor similar to a word processor. No knowledge of HTML is needed. | ready |
| Add and remove pages. Multi-levels of pages are supported, which are dynamically included in the website's navigational menu. | ready |
| Powerful tree-view control for management of the page hierarchy structure. Easily create a 'tree' of pages, where pages can lead to more pages underneath, to an unlimited level or complexity. Drag and drop to move pages or entire branches around. The tree hierarchy is automatically reflected in the website's navigational menu. | ready |
| Pages can be set to be excluded from the navigational menu for internal linking. | ready |
| Pages can be in published or non-published status. | ready |
| Configurable page URL's or automated based on page names | ready |
| Snippets feature - blocks of content which are not pages themselves, but can be included within pages, and within areas of the site globally. | ready |
| Site Design Layer Your website's graphic design is separated from the functionality of the system, allowing for the ultimate flexibility in site design. Design features concentrate on allowing flexibility rather than constraints, with a strong emphasis on CSS, accessibility, and separating presentational and structural elements. | |
| Table-less layout with optimized 'semantic' HTML structure utilizing CSS for presentational code | ready |
| Customizable CSS through dashboard. Work with the CSS for the design layout separately from the content. | ready |
| System functionality comes with a default theme that can be adjusted to suit your site's design strategy. Adjust CSS and imagery through the dashboard. | ready |
| Dynamically generated class and id selectors on HTML elements for CSS use, which allows you to customize the design of any page, section or module. | ready |
| Insert customizable code into the <head> per page | ready |
| Administration Create administrative users with access to the dashboard |
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| Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Powerful features that promote and enhance SEO of your website. |
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| Set <title> and meta tags per page. | ready |
| Production of SEO-friendly semantic markup, whilst keeping presentational markup where it belongs in the CSS. Markup that is produced by the system adhere to this strategy, and features that promote and make it easy to work this way are provided within the dashboard. | ready |
| Website User Accessibility Features that enhance the experience for your website visitors, and make it easy to find information. |
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| Search feature - provides a search input which displays a list of search results, from both content pages. In order to make the search more intelligent and provide more concise and accurate (less is more) results, search is based on keywords which can be set per content page. | ready |
| 'Section Index' feature. For a section of the site where there are multiple pages on a subject, you can direct matching searches to a section 'leader' or index page. | ready |
| Multi level navigational menu: provides easy access to pages and sections within the site. The menu is dynamically generated and automatically updated as you add new content pages. | ready |
| Breadcrumb trail - allows users to easily see where they've been and go back (applies to product gallery areas). | ready |
| Performance optimizations - server side caching. Even though content in your site is stored in a database and dynamically produced, content pages are cached server side as they are created and edited, which ensures the fastest response times when users browse your website. | ready |
| Performance optimizations: ajax technology is used in various areas to optimize the speed of data retrieval on the site. In such cases, if javascript is disabled in the user's browser, the non-ajax optimized methods are used as a fallback. | ready |
| Modules Modules provides other types of functionality which allow the addition of many useful features related to website management. |
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| Career Postings module: Allows you to easily post and manage career and job postings on your website. | ready |
| Reporting The reporting module is not built in yet, but currently the system tracks clicks-through's to individual product pages for future reporting purposes. |
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| Built in web log analyzer and stats engine (Webalizer) for detailed reports on site hits, etc. | ready |
Module: Product Management
| Feature | status |
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| Product Management Manage your products through the dashboard of your website. |
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| Create products, add product detail including price, description, SKU, product photo, etc. | ready |
| Create variations of products, based on customizable attributes. Offer your products in different sizes, colours, etc. Create multiple variations of any sort, each product variation can maintain its own SKU, price, pictures, etc. The system provides an intuitive interface for easily creating and managing multiple product variations and assets. Variations can have thumbnail images associated with them (to show swatch patterns for eg.) | ready |
| Organize products by category. Categories are automatically included in the website's navigational menu for users to browse your catalog. | ready |
| Multi-level tree structure for categories. Allows you to setup multiple hierarchies so website users can find products via different approaches. Unlimited levels and complexity supported. Tree view control makes it easy to manage the order and hierarchy. | ready |
| Product images and thumbnails are automatically created based on image files you upload. They are automatically sized and optimized for the web. A master image is stored upon image upload, so that when images in the system (such as thumbs) are changed or generated, they use the master image so that quality is never lost. | ready |
| Product categories can be configured as to how they should display on the website, per category. Choose what features to display and in what order, per category. | ready |
| Product categories can be represented by thumbnails displayed in category pages on the website. | ready |
| Thumbnail images for products and categories can be mixed of 'single' and 'wide' size orientations, of which the sizes are configurable. . | ready |
| Support for linking product images from outside sources such as image servers. | ready |
| Manage the order product thumbs are presented using various tools such as drag & drop | ready |
| Move products between categories. | ready |
| Copy products. This is a useful feature which allows you to display products in more than one category, so that users can find them in more than one way. The 'copies' are iterations of the same product, so that if you edit one, they all reflect the changes. Make as many copies as needed. | ready |
| Products can be active or inactive. | ready |
| Product Galleries On the website your product are presented by category pages. Category pages can display customizable content such as imagery, text, flash, etc. |
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| Category pages can display a dynamic filter sidebar feature, which allows website visitors to further drill-down and filter to products based on their choices. There are multiple ways they can do this: 1) by sub-category. As you click categories, sub categories in the tree are displayed. 2) by variations and attributes. All variation attributes (such as colour, material or any you have set up) for all products under the category level are grouped and click-able for filtering. (more filters to be added in future versions such as price range). | ready |
| Category pages can display thumbnails of their contents, which is either sub categories, or products. Thumbnails image sizes can be configurable, as the number per page displayed. Automatic pagination with page links. | ready |
| Products display on their own page with product detail and imagery. All variations are displayed, as well as additional images or scenes. (dynamic product page with selectable filterable variations planned for ver 1.0) | ready |
| A breadcrumb trail allows easy navigation between product areas. | ready |
| Multiple pages of product thumbs are automatically created and page links provided. | ready |
| Thumbnails are supported in two sizes, single and wide. | ready |
| The number of thumbs per page is configurable. | ready |
| Product search - products are included in the search feature. They can be based on keywords (configurable per product) and / or the product descriptions (configurable globally). | ready |
| Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Automatic population of product keywords and category naming within product page meta tags, page title tags, and category page meta tags |
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| Search engine friendly URL's with SE food in the url path (product and category names, etc) | ready |
| Many multiple ways for a search engine to crawl the website and find products due to the filter feature. This allows for the search engine to log many new keyword combinations to product pages automatically. | ready |
| Website User Accessibility | |
| When products are moved to other categories and links that have propagated (in search engines, or people's bookmarks) are out of date, the system will still try to find the product and present the visitor with the new product page, or a list of category links to pages the product is not found in. | ready |
Module: Customer Management
| Feature | status |
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| Bulk Mailing and Contact Database Collect contacts through sign-ups on your website, and send bulk mail outs. This is an opt-in only, non spam system. In 0.7, some functions are prepared through us, such as integrating an design into an email (such as a newsletter), filtering who gets the mailings in a mail-out, and sending the mailouts. |
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| Visitors to your site can sign up to join your mail list, and are tracked in the customer database. Track contact information including address, email, phone, location, etc. (configurable). | ready |
| Automatic mailing of a welcome email upon sign-up, including attachments. The email can be designed with HTML and imagery, etc. | ready |
| Send prepared emails to all or parts of the mail list (filterable). | ready |
| Create a clickable area in an HTML email to click-through to a second online page, and track the click-through's. | ready |
| Contacts can unsubscribe to the mail list, from a link in any mailing. | ready |
| Contacts can edit their settings, such as change their location, update their email address. | ready |
| A secure system is used for contacts changing their settings, using a confirmation email with a link. | ready |
Version: 0.9
status: in development
release date: approx beginning of April, 2008
This release will include our first version of functioning eCommerce. It is in mid-development, so check back soon for a complete list of features and their progress.
Module: eCommerce
| Feature | status |
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