The Proximity WebLab-CMS Feature list is vast, with key features including ...

Full WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) XHTML content editing
Designing your page templates and adding content to your pages can all be done in directly in your web browser.  No additional software to download and install, no battling with your IT department to get permissions to add new features to your PC, WebLab operates fully native to the browser you decide to use.

Out of the box, WebLab supports both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac platforms and is compatible with the latest browsers for all areas of functionality.

Designers can create fully dynamic page templates directly in the same editor without restriction, controlling layout, style, CSS and the insertion of WebLabs powerful scripting language.  WebLab also provides full HTML and CSS importing, so if you prefer you can design your pages in an external web editor and then just import it into WebLab to add full CMS control using 'WebLab Lingo'.

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Ensuring compliant code with integrated W3C validation
Accessibility is key for today’s web sites. Producing fully compliant HTML not only helps search engines index your site better, it maintain consistency of your pages across multiple platforms, devices and web browsers.

WebLabs core technology writes compliant code directly to your pages as they are published, and your content editors can ensure the compliancy continues directly into the content they enter by using WebLabs built in W3C validation tools.

Integrating directly into W3C (www.w3c.org), the World Wide Web Consortium and governing body, handling the content within those pages is simple.  Just write your content, spell check it and then validate - Proximity WebLab-CMS lets you validate your template code and page content directly in the editor, before it goes anywhere near your live web site.

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Powerful Point & Click, Drag & Drop site tree construction
Creating a new site or extending an existing one is simple.

  • Need to add a new page? Simple, just click the 'New Page' icon and click the site map where you want the page to appear.
  • Need to rename a page? Double click the page title in the site map any retype the name
  • Need to reorganise your site or just move a page to a new location? Easy, click and hold the page you need to move and drag it to its new location in the site map.  WebLab handles all the dynamic link updates and even expands the site tree to help you navigate the existing structure as you move pages around!

The WebLab site tree displays full page details; page publication status, visibility, workflow status, page titles, page ID and more.

RSS - Pushing your site news to outside sources
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a growing medium for getting information to the end user and what's great about RSS is, you can get your information to a client without them even coming to your site!

RSS is is picked up and made available to end users in various ways but primarily usually picked up in their email clients or web browser software.  These applications do all the hard work, monitoring your website and RSS feeds constantly, grabbing any new content you publish to them and then pushing out to anyone who has subscribed to your RSS feed.

This powerful communication platform is available in WebLab as you would expect and publishing an RSS feed takes just a few clicks.

  • Unlimited RSS feeds from your site
  • Push content directly to your subscribers
  • Pull content from external website also using RSS to display their content directly in your pages.
  • Make any section/content placeholder RSS enabled with one click

And just to make it easier for you to display your RSS feeds, WebLab provides simple WebLab Lingo commands to provide RSS readers and content scrollers into your pages in a snip.


Real-time Analytics - The Best of Both Worlds
We understand the need for good ROI, and in order for you to judge what your site is doing on the web, you're going to need good tracking and visitor stats at your fingertips.

WebLab provides full page tracking and key information detailed in date order for your needs, but to be sure we cover all the industry requirements, WebLab also caters for external tracking scripts to be added to your webpages in one simple update.

As with most external tracking services, you will be required to paste a snippet of code generated by the external tracking company into all of your pages, so stats can be received and collated by them on your behalf.  Traditionally, this is quite a chore, but with WebLab its simple.

  • Any HTML/Javascript tracking code can be added to all pages in one click
  • Options to have the code added to either the HEAD or BODY tags of your pages
  • Simple on/off configuration

Include the power of Google Analytics directly to your webpages, quickly, cleanly and simply.

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Multiple Sites - One WebLab?
Oh Yes! - All versions of Proximity WebLab-CMS are capable of holding multiple sites, restricted only by the license you purchase.

  • Complete flexibility and freedom to create individual sites all contained within a single and familiar CMS environment.
  • Provide extended user accounts to allow your customers or external content editors access to managed areas of the WebLab environment
  • Add sites as you need them or just upgrade your license to extend the site capabilities and function sets within WebLab-CMS

From WebLab 'Lite' to the 'Enterprise version, WebLab has it covered.


Multiple Languages
WebLab provides full multilingual capability straight out of the box, in all versions.

  • Add alternate languages to your site in a few clicks and extend the content of the primary language over the new language set as needed
  • 6 Languages currently supported -English, French, German, Korean, Simple Chinese, Russian
  • Spell check provided in English, French and German
  • Create a new language site from scratch or based on an existing language
  • Replicate just the site navigation or the entire navigation and language set
  • Include Site Translators into the WebLab workflow
  • Provide language filtering in your website search results

In addition, add the WebLab Lingo 'Language Selector' code to your templates, and WebLab handles the switching of site content to the language selected automatically in the live website.


Embedded ‘WorkFlow’
Offering 4 stages from page draft to final publish, Proximity WebLab-CMS allows you to submit your page content, template, navigational and CSS changes through its workflow, allowing changes to be monitored by different individuals in your company from original draft, to final proof and ready for publication onto the web.

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Powerful Site Search
Proximity WebLab-CMS provides full search facilities that allow you to search and filter content in any language, adding quick search or a full search page to your site with a few lines of ‘WebLab Lingo’

  • Add full search and advanced search capabilities in WebLab Lingo
  • Customise the look and feel of your search results using predefined CSS classes/styles
  • Apply filtering for multilingual websites

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Over 60 different navigation themes, in 4 different styles, added in 1 line of Lingo!
Proximity WebLab-CMS ships with over 60 different navigation designs, with 4 different styles of navigation to suit most web applications. Expanding tree, dynamic drop down or classic tabbed navigation and familiar MS Outlook panel navigation are all options available in WebLab-CMS

  • Add dynaic navigation to your templates with 1 line of WebLab Lingo
  • WebLab handles and configures all your internal links as you build your site
  • Override any of the supplied themes or add your own using standard CSS
  • Rendered to your webpages as compliant HTML bulleted lists for SEO friendliness

Never again have to update every page in your websites navigation when you add a new one - WebLab automates the entire process!

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Full Online Marketing Suite (Enterprise & Designer)
Create HTML newsletters for online marketing campaigns and capture site visitor details allowing them to subscribe to your mailing lists quicly with a single WebLab Lingo command.

  • Unlimited newsletters, all designed directly in your Web Browser and in the WebLab WYSIWYG editor
  • Manage your subscriber list in the Newletter module.  Edit details, add new subscribers, group subscribers to mailing lists easily
  • Bulk email newsletters to subscribers or just one at a time
  • Monitor email send failures

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