Plum CMS is a feature-rich website editing and content management system. It's based on one ideology: keeping it simple. This makes Plum one of the simplest, most cost effective CMS solutions providing some of the richest content, media and feature enabled websites on the web.
Following is a detailed list of all Plum CMS features and modules:
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| ► Add Unlimited Pages | ✓ |
With Plum CMS, your website can have unlimited pages. That's right, once your site design has been defined, you can add as many pages as you like, without any additional cost. Simply click on the add a page button, add your title, header and content, and you'll have a new page added to your website. It's that simple! |
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| ► Multiple User Access | ✓ |
We know how frustrating it can be to have to share passwords. That's why with Plum CMS, you can have multiple users. Did we mention, you can have unlimited multiple users?! They can be either Administrators or Moderators. Administrators can manage everything and moderators manage site content only. So, with Plum CMS, you don't have to share your password with your co-workers and you can see who last edited a certain page on your website. It's Plum simple! |
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| ► WYSIWYG inline Editing | ✓ |
We've integrated industry leading FCKEditor into Plum CMS to make WYSIWYG in-line editing available to you. With this integration, you can edit your web pages with a rich text editor, bringing you a Microsoft Word like experience to edit your website. You get a familiar interface, and you can easily format your text, insert photos and add tables, links, divs and other objects into your website. You can even copy and paste documents formatted in Word into your website, and the editor automatically cleans up the code to deliver web compliant formatting. |
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| ► Image Management | ✓ |
Plum CMS has an entire image management section, dedicated to managing and integrating images and photos into your website. It provides a simple interface to add and upload images. Plum CMS then generates a link to that image, and using the WYSIWYG editor you can then paste that link anywhere into your website, displaying the image on as many websites as you like. It's really simple to add images to your website with Plum. No FTP required! Once uploaded, the images are always available for you to use until you delete them. It's easy as Plum! |
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| ► Document Management | ✓ |
Similar to the image management system in Plum CMS, the document management section makes it easy for you to upload and manage documents on your website. Just upload a document and reference the provided link in your webpage using the WYSIWYG editor and you're all set. No programming, no FTP. Easy as Plum! |
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| ► Editable Sidebars * | ✓ |
Another great feature of Plum CMS. When your site is designed with Plum, we define a sidebar in your site design, an area which you can mix and match with relevant content on the various pages of your website. You can create multiple sidebars, choose which appear on which pages and what content goes in each one of them. Sidebars are easy to use, edited with the WYSIWYG editor just like the rest of the page and can contain anything. The only reason that they're predefined in your site's template is so that we can keep the code clean and search engine friendly. You can define as many different areas as you want within your site design as you wish using Plum CMS. |
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| ► Forms Addition * | ✓ |
Forms is an area many end-users feel uncomfortable with. That's why, with Plum CMS, we've solved this problem for our customers. When you purchase a Plum CMS license, we'll design upto three dfferent forms for you to help you collect relevant information from your customers. Three different forms, with fields of your choice, submitted to email address(es) of your choice. It's nice and simple. No more wasting time struggling with different form designers. Tell us what fields you want, and we'll deliver the forms with your website. |
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| ► Dynamic Menus ** | ✓ |
Another one of Plum's unique features. Given the requirements of your business and the design created for it, your website can be built to have custom definable menus. This means that you get to choose not only which pages exist on your website, but which appear in the menu across the top or on the side. This helps you define where visitors to your website navigate and gives you more control over your website. |
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| ► Free Modules / Add-ons | ✓ |
Plum CMS is built with a very simple core and concept in mind. We've built the CMS such that we can built and add modules to the existing core as requirements and needs in the industry change. In addition, since Plum CMS is a managed and hosted solution, once a new release of the software becomes available with newer modules or add-ons, these will automatically start to appear in the Modules section when you login to Plum. Once it shows up there, you can simply activate and follow the instructions to start using the module. No extra charge, no installation issues. It's the complete expandable, growing solution. |
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| ► Blog *** | ✓ |
With this Plum CMS module, you can create a full featured blog on your website, complete with an RSS feed. This means you won't have to setup another blog client or software on your website, and can leverage the great marketing power of the blogging tool to help improve your business and online presence. |
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| ► Latest News Area *** | ✓ |
We've researched what most of our clients need and it turns out that this one of business' favourite areas. The latest news module of Plum CMS creates another blog-like module where you can share the latest news regarding your business with your clients. It's simple to use, and for businesses that update the news ona regularly basis, your clients can also subscribe to your news via an RSS feed! Very handy! |
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| ► Photo Gallery *** | ✓ |
We recognized, while developing Plum CMS, that some businesses require dedicated photo galleries to highlight their work or share other pictures. Therefore, we've developed a photo gallery module for Plum CMS. It's simple, allows you to define albums/categories under which you can file your photographs. Best of all, you can add or remove the photo gallery at the touch of a button. |
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| ► eCommerce / Online Store *** | ✓ |
The Plum CMS eCommerce module allows you to add a fully functional shopping cart powered online store to your website, allowing you to easily collect payments using PayPal or Google Checkout. Like all other Plum CMS modules, the eCommerce Module is free to add-on to your website and allows you to easily monetize your business. You can product categories and images and get selling in no time at all! |
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| ► Custom Site Design | ✓ |
We've built Plum CMS to work with any website design. We don't stick to a specific group of templates, and we design every website with a fresh image in mind; an image of your business. This means that all Plum CMS powered websites are custom designed with Plum CMS built into them rather than being built around Plum CMS. This gives you great flexibility in choosing your design and since we've developed Plum in-house, we know exactly how configure it to work on just about any website. |
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| ► CSS Based | ✓ |
All websites powered with Plum CMS are built using pure CSS. We make every effort to adhere to design standards so that your website loads faster, gets a better search engine ranking and can be easily edited and upgraded when needed. |
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| ► Search Engine Friendly | ✓ |
At VAFTA Solutions, we have over five years of experience with making websites search engine friendly. We know the right HTML tags, the copywriting methods and the design structure that helps search engines pick up our websites. With Plum CMS, you get our search engine friendly design and configuration built-in. There's no extra charge for making the website search engine friendly. It's the Plum way and we're making it easier and affordable for you. |
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| ► Flash Integration | ✓ |
With the price of your annual license, Plum CMS comes with a fully CSS compliant, custom designed website. For a small additional price, we'll integrate a flash design or banner into your website. Flash work starts at £ 55.00 per hour, and flash banners start at £149.00. When buying Plum CMS, for just a small price, you can add flash animation to your website that will set you apart from everyone else! |
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| ► Free Email Accounts **** | ✓ |
Plum CMS is managed and hosted Solution, which means that we host your website on our servers. You choose to host your email along with your website on our webservers, or you can host the email on your server locally. The price of email hosting is included in your Plum CMS license. Each license comes with 20 email accounts upto 200 MB each, and you can add more for as little as £ 2.00 per email account. |
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| ► Free Upgrades & Updates | ✓ |
One of the biggest advantages of Plum CMS is that it's an ever evolving software. We're always making improvements, and the future of Plum CMS looks bright, which means upgrades and updates are scheduled regularly, adding new features and modules and improving existing ones. Since Plum is a managed and hosting solution, when we run scheduled updates and upgrades on all of our servers, your website and Plum CMS solution automatically gets upgraded, putting all the latest features and upgrades at your fingertips without any hassle! You get free upgrades for as long as you keep you Plum CMS license up-to-date. No fees, no upgrading needed. Our scheduled updates will do everything for you. |
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| ► Premium Support | ✓ |
All licensed Plum CMS users receive preimum support, free of cost. That's one of the advantages of providing Plum as a managed and hosting userbase. Every effort is made by our team to respond to all queries within a few hours. If you're struggling with something you cannot find in the Plum CMS knowledgebase, simply post in the forum, and we'll post a response with your answer. The response becomes part of the Plum CMS extended knowledgebase and is then available for all other Plum users to use. Not only do you get premium support, but you help in developing the support framework for Plum CMS. |
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| ► User Managed Meta & SEO | ✓ |
Not many Content Management Systems will allow you to edit your site's meta tags, which play an important in how search engines see you. With Plum CMS, we put your Search Engine Optimization options in your hands. Choose your site's keywords and descriptions as you want Google, Yahoo! and MSN to see them. What else? You can change this anytime you want. With the right and relevant Meta tags and content on your website, you have a greater chance of driving organic traffic to your website. |
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| ► Multi-Browser Compatibility | ✓ |
Plum CMS comes preinstalled for you on our webservers, and you don't need to install or configure any special software to make it work. All you need is an internet connection and a browser, be it Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome or Safari. They're all compatible with Plum CMS! |
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| ► Lightning Fast Speed ***** | ✓ |
Plum CMS is built using CMS and optimized to take small and large websites without slowing down. The secret lies in it's clean design and architecture, which makes it easy for browsers to interpret and doesn't strain even slower internet connections. We recommend broadband when you use Plum CMS for a truly fast experience, but slower internet connections are supported and work just fine with Plum. |
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| ► Solar Powered Hosting | ✓ |
Not only is Plum CMS one of the simplest and easiest to use Content Management Systems, but it's also one of the most environmentally friendly CMS Solutions out there. All Plum CMS powered websites are deployed on solar powered servers hosted by IMountain.com Solar Powered Hosting. So, give youself a break by getting a simple, easy to manage website and be friendly to the evironment, all with Plum CMS by VAFTA. |
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| ► Managed and Hosted ****** | ✓ |
If you've ever had to install or configure a Content Management System or blog, or pay to get one configured, you will realize how expensive and diffifult it can be to co-ordinate the right hosting, get all the settings right and finally get it up and running. With Plum CMS, all you worries are taken care of. It's a managed and hosting solution and since we've developed it, there's no guessing on how hard or difficult it will be to manage. It's easy for us to manage and host, which means you have worry about nothing except for writing your content and adding your pictures. Yes, with Plum CMS, a website is that simple! |
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| ► Money-back Guarantee ******* | ✓ |
We've put a lot of time, effort and research in creating Plum CMS. We're really sure you will like it's simplicy and ease of use. We, therefore, offer a 14 day money-back guarantee on all Plum CMS installations from the date of site delivery. Once we've designed your site and installed Plum on it, you have 14 days to change your mind, and we will return all your money, no questions asked! There's no catch. You don't like it, you don't have to pay for it. |
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| ► Satisfaction Guaranteed ******* | ✓ |
VAFTA Solutions is a business that puts customers first. We firmly believe that our success lies in our cusomters' satisfaction and to that end, we do all we can with Plum CMS to make sure that you are satisfied. If you have further questions about any of the features, or anything that has to do with Plum CMS, please do not hesitate to contact us via email or call us on 020 8133 3550. |
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* Sidebars are editable based on your site design and are defined at the time of design. Sidebars is the name given to an area treated as a sidebar and does not necessarily occur on the side of a page. When you purchase a Plum CMS License, we will design up to 3 customized forms for you.
** Dynamic Menus are available based on your site design. Dynamic, user editable menus are not fully compatible with some site designs. When designing your site, we will give you the option of a design with or without a dynamic, user editable menu.
*** Module availability dates may vary. The blog module will be available in June, 2009. Newsletter and CRM modules will be available in July, 2009. eCommerce functionality/module will be available in September, 2009.
**** Since Plum CMS is a hosted and managed solution, we can also provide you email hosting for up to 30 email accounts with a Plum CMS license. If you need additional email accounts or will need an extra ordinary amount of monthly bandwidth (more than 20 GB), please contact us to discuss an additional hosting fee. If you already own a domain name, you can simply point your DNS servers to our host. If you don't, we can register a domain name for you.
***** This is a subjective term and is not to be taken literally.
****** Plum CMS is a hosted and managed solution. We set up everything for you. Once setup, all you need to do is add content to your website via the WYSYWYG editor, document management and photo management system. You need minimal, if any, knowledge of website design or HTML to use Plum CMS, although basic knowledge of HTML and CSS may enhance your user experience.
******* At VAFTA Solutions, we guarantee that you will be satisfied with our service. We make every effort to make sure that all customers are satisfied with our service and product. If you are not satisfied with our service or our product, please contact us and we'll be sure to address the problem.
We're sure you will like Plum CMS. In fact, we're so sure you'll love it, we're offering a 14 day money-back guarantee when you sign up for Plum! Simply purchase online via the VAFTA Store or call us on 020 8133 3550, and we'll have your sitefront custom designed and powered with Plum CMS. Site turnaround is 5-7 business days. If you don't like your website or Plum CMS, we'll refund your money, no questions asked! Try Plum today!
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