Optional additional features:

a)       Newsletter Module – provides communication channel from the website administrator to them subscribed visitors or customers

 

i)         Subscription block – this is a left or right block type area that allows website visitors to enter their name and email address and choose a mailing list (a topic) to subscribe to. They can also use this form to unsubscribe from lists. This block area can be move to the left or right side of the screen, ordered before or after any other such block as well as turned off completely for some groups and turned on for others.

 

ii)       Newsletter administration  - allows for the listing or available mailing lists, adding news ones, listing subscribed users, adding subscribers, removing subscribers. Messages can be composed and sent to user groups (see 9), to mailing lists with subscribers or both.

 

b)      Information Blocks Module – this module allows for blocks (square areas holding information, providing a service, navigation or advertising) to be move to left or right side containers , ordered in sequence within those containers, blocks titles can be changed, made visible or invisible under specific website sections as provided by the main navigation menu. Currently available blocks are:  Calendar block, Site News block, User Login block, Newsletter Subscription block, Product Catalog navigation block, Product Catalog search block, Mini Cart block.

 

c)       User Management Module – this is an advanced module that allows the application administrator to manage visitors or other application administrative accounts, assign access to different sections of the website as well as group the accounts into organizations and roles.

 

i)         Organizations manager – the highest level of grouping of accounts which cannot be associated with access rights but is used for administrative purposes only. However a certain set of settings can be associated with all accounts that belong to an organization but those are below the scope of this document. Organizations can be listed, added, deleted or modified where each organization record holds a few details common to all accounts within this top level group.

 

ii)       Roles manager – this is the next lower level of grouping of user accounts within an organization such that detailed access rights to all sections of the website can be assigned here. The manager allows listing, addition, removal of roles. The special role “guest” is also present here which accounts for the access control of all non-authenticated users (those that have not logged on to the website and this way identified themselves).  The role record allows for a role name and description to be recorded. See appendix E for more details on access control per role.

 

iii)      User manager – lowest level of management of accounts for precise access control to all sections of the website. The accounts for all registered users are listed here with all the corresponding user (being a website lower level administrator or a visitor/customer) details. Access can be managed on a per user basis which allows for very fine control of access. Accounts can be moved between roles and synchronized with access levels of those roles. Account passwords can be reset. New accounts can be added and old ones removed. Accounts can be suspended temporarily and enabled after suspension. See appendix E for more details on access control per user account.

 

 

d)       Content Publishing Module – allows for publishing web pages, and website news

i)         Publishing web content  - web pages that can browsed by the website visitor by following the links from the main menu. Web pages can be displayed to certain authenticate users and hidden from others. Linking to existing pages from the menu can be done through the Navigation Administration Section (see 1.2) Pages will be fit in the center area and further layout and customization can be done by the website manager through HTML. HTML pages can be composed and pasted in the admin

 

ii)       Publisher administration section – web pages can be composed here and marked pending approval, approved, published or archived where only the published status page is actually being displayed to the user. The pages’ duration of display is determined by the manager by specifying a start and end date.

 

iii)      News block – a small section of website where news content can be displayed to the visitors on the left or right sides of the screen such that visitors can click a headline and be directed to read the entire article. This block can be ordered after or before any other such block on the left or right sides of the screen as well as hidden at any time by the website manager. The appearance of this block can be customized in font types, colors and sizes; title background bar color and body background color.

 

iv)      News administration section – news headlines and articles can be added/modified/removed/archived from here such that they will be displayed to the visitors in the News Block throughout the length of their lifetime specified here by the website manager.

 

 

e)      Language Content

The system supports different languages such that all content can be presented in any language other than English as long as the translation is provided. See RP Design sales staff for details on this additional feature.