Sitefinity Built-In Tools

Blogs Module

The Sitefinity Blog’s publishing system supports workflow and completely streamlines the management of single or multiple user blogs. Additionally, it’s extremely easy to implement the module - business users can add it to the website by visually configuring the module.

Discussion / Forum Module

Sitefinity features a pluggable forum module. It offers easy manipulation of multiple forums on your website from a single management interface. Forum administrators can swiftly create forums, start new threads, edit and delete individual messages and assign permissions to different users through the Sitefinity’s admin area. You can also use categories to classify and organize different forums.

Documents and Images Module

The Documents and Images module serves as a central repository for images and files, it offers several great benefits for both end users and developers:

• It allows content authors to conveniently search for resources and reuse different elements throughout the site (for example add a specific photo in multiple pages on the website).
• End users can also create public libraries (for example photo gallery in the “Events” page of the website) by simply dragging a control from the Sitefinity Toolbox onto the page and choosing the images that should be displayed.
• The module also facilitates the migration of images and files to a new database project and automatically updates the image or documents paths as needed.

Events Calendar

Sitefinity ships with an Events Module that makes it easy for users to schedule and announce events through their web site and display them on a calendar or a list. The module incorporates Telerik’s RadScheduler, providing the standard abilities to manipulate events (create, view, update, delete). The Events Module offers panels for managing tags, categories and comments and ability to define module-specific permissions. Additionally the Events Module has a special panel for working with geo-mapping settings. The module provides an ability to display maps of event's location from three leading map services: Google Maps; Yahoo! Maps; Live Maps.

FAQ Management

The Lists module provides a simple and efficient way of organizing FAQs, contacts, interviews, testimonials, instructions, tasks, to-do lists, links, dictionaries, and much more. It allows you to create logically related list items, each with a headline and content, and eliminates the need to format them while writing. All formatting comes from the CSS files and themes, and content contributors do not have to worry about bullet styles, separators between the items, different CSS classes for each item, etc.

Graphs and Charts

Sitefinity provides an inbuilt RadChart - a business-oriented charting component that allows users to generate all popular chart types.

Polls Module

With Sitefinity Polls module, users can quickly create Polls for their sites through an intuitive user interface. It literally takes a few minutes to create a new Poll and publish it on the website.

Search Engine

Sitefinity offers an advanced search service that allows you to quickly and easily find information managed by the CMS. The search indexes both modules and static content and allows you to define which parts of the site are being searched and how the search results are displayed. Additionally, by using the search content authors can instantly find where certain keywords are used on the website and quickly and efficiently update content. Additionally, those users who have permissions to edit the page layout can visually add the search control onto the page without any programming knowledge. The Search Box and Search Results controls (as all other Sitefinity custom controls) can be added with simple drag-and-drop.

Site Map

Sitefinity automatically creates a Sitemap of the website and keeps users up to date with any navigational changes. An automated Sitemap also ensures that search engines can find and index all pages without additional effort.