The Content Hub is a powerful website content management system which is suitable for a wide range of websites. But is it suitable for your website? We have compiled a list of frequently asked questions to help you make that decision.
General FAQs
Technical FAQs
General FAQs
What is a Website CMS?
A Website CMS (Website Content Management System) is a tool for creating, maintaining and managing a website. They have many benefits for site owners and developers including allowing site owners or content editors to manage all aspects of their website such as page content, images, documents and navigation without knowledge of website programming.
For website developers a website CMS provides a foundation and a wide range of features to design and build flexible template driven websites which can then be managed by their clients.
Who is The Content Hub CMS System For?
The Content Hub is for any company that wants an easily manageable and flexible website. The main sets of users include:
- Website owners/managers who want to manage their website in-house.
- Developers who need a flexible and easy-to-use Website CMS to provide a great service for their clients.
We are looking to expand our web presence later on, but wish to have something up now is that possible?
Yes, no problem. Any website controlled by The Content Hub can be modified or expanded at any point.
Can we have content that is used in multiple places in our website?
By separating the page templates from the content The Content Hub allows content to be referenced in multiple places. A typical example of this is reusing news stories on a news index page and the top news headlines on the homepage or even an xml feed for use on external sites.
If we use The Content Hub CMS what will my website look like?
Like all good website content management systems The Content Hub does not dictate what the website will look like. The website designer is free to be creative and design a website suitable for the situation.
What technical knowledge do my editors need to have?
To get the most out of editing your website in The Content Hub, all we recommend is that editors have a basic knowledge of the internet.
The editing features of The Content Hub are straightforward and intuitive, but if you like, we can provide a training session to get you up and running straight away.
How much does it cost?
For a customised quote please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Technical FAQs
We want to use PHP or ASP in our website as well as have the features of a CMS, is this possible?
One of the great advantages of The Content Hub over other most other website CMS systems is that it can be used to manage websites using any server side language - as long as the server supports it. Currently our server supports ASP.net, ASP and PHP, but if you had a particular need for another language then we could look into supporting that as well.
That means you can utilise all the features of The Content Hub CMS and the powerful HubScript scripting language alongside your custom website functionality.
Can we use our content to create documents other than website pages?
Yes, The Content Hub can be used to create files of any text based file format. This could include html, text, xml, wap, csv for use in any online applications.
I'm a website developer, can I use The Content Hub?
Yes, you can use The Content Hub for your projects. To make the most of its features you need a good knowledge of html and general web technology. The logic in templates is included using HubScript which is a simple scripting language which is fully documented for your reference. Contact us to discuss your next project.
How do I create templates to use the CMS features?
The templates for The Content Hub are written in HubScript. HubScript is a simple scripting language which uses tags similar to HTML to interact with the content store and provide logic to render your web pages.
When logged in to The Content Hub as a developer you can access a guide to each tag with coding examples and details on the available parameters.
A common method of developing templates for The Content Hub works as follows:
- Flat code several key pages or elements for your website, such as the homepage and an internal content page
- Integrate the required HubScript tags to create a dynamic template, choosing which areas are editable, which use referenced content and included pages or template
- Create a new template in the CMS, insert your template code and designate the editable fields using the simple interface
After creating a template any number of pages can be produced using it as a blueprint.
Will my site be optimised for search engines?
The Content Hub provides all the tools to create a search engine optimised (SEO) website. There are many features available which enable you to control the SEO of your site such as:
- The rendered pages of your website are published as flat code so they are available for search engines to spider
- Create editable fields that allow the page title, description, keywords and other META tags to be easily edited on a page, section or site wide level.
- Control your own content including text, images, alt tags and documents, so as you can modify content to create the optimal keyword density
- Easily generate site maps with links to all the valuable content in your site
The developers of your site are free to use The Content Hub's features and their own SEO methods to get your site to the top of the search engines.
Can I make a W3C complient website?
The Content Hub provides the tools to create a flexible content managed website while allowing you to choose which web standards you want to build your website to.
You can decide whether your site conforms to one of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards , or your companies in-house standards. All the features of the CMS will be available to you whichever standard you choose to comply to when coding your site.
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"The Content Hub is so easy to use. I can update our company website myself and for someone who's not a computer whizz that's an achievement!
All our website pages are organised in a logical structure and it's easy to work out which page you are editing. I can also upload pictures and documents into one area and then reuse them throughout the site as I like.
The Content Hub definitely saves our company time and money!"
Elisa, NHS Quit Smoking
"The Content Hub allows me to have as many pages as I like on my website. We upload a lot of photo galleries, event results and news stories. Our customers want to see the latest drag racing results as soon as they've happened - which is mostly at weekends - so I need to be able to edit the pages anytime I want.
I can get all my content ready in the cms and then publish all the pages in one go when I'm happy with the way the content looks. It is very simple and quick to use and the support is great."
Maxine, East Coast Custom
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