Features

Features of the sites created using Yanel

• search (full-text similar to Google, respectful of access rights)
• internationalized pages
• error pages are customizable
• images and videos can be presented in a gallery
• RSS and Atom feeds support
• contact page with spam protection
• statistics
  • Google Analytics support
• compatible with major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) (when using the supported editors)
• search engine optimization (SEO)
  • complete control over URLs used
  • in progress: Google sitemap support

Content creation

• create/edit/delete static pages
• Web-based editor (TinyMCE, Xinha) with management facilities for:
  • text
  • images or other assets (PDF documents, Flash videos, or other binary files)
  • lists
  • links (incl. external sites, anchors, and redirections)
• simple wiki editor (JSPwiki syntax) for quick editing
• planned: create/edit/delete navigation links
• create/edit/delete custom element

Access control

• secure access (SSL)
• login/logout using username and password or OpenID
  • everything except the password can optionally be remembered for each user by Yanel
• forgotten passwords handling
• SSO using CAS
• create/edit/delete users
• create/edit/delete groups or sub-groups of users
• create/edit/delete access policies for groups

Content management

• page administration
• site administration
• archival/migration/backup facilities (import/export, easy zipping and downloading of a content tree)
• versioning (with creator, creation date, editor, and publisher metadata)
• workflow (incl. draft, approved and published states and validity range)
• metadata management (incl. keywords and description)
• task scheduler