The biggest security hole on your website is your login form.  If you allow weak passwords, then it does not require special hacker tricks to break in to your website - a simple password guessing program...

When you update content in ExSite, a new revision is created. The previous revisions remain on file, so that you can roll back to any previous revision if you choose. The system will track an unlimited...

This document provides an overview of the differences between static and dynamic content, how ExSite manages these, and various tricks you can use to mix and match them. -- Static Content -- Static...

Sections are an important tool for organizing your website's content and security. This document explains sections, and how to make best use of them. Sections are analogous to folders on your hard drive....

-- Introduction -- ExSite's content management system has a built-in search subsystem that lets you perform keyword searches across all of your content and data.  Unlike external search tools such...

ExSite has a few features that allow you to automatically publish or republish pages at set times or intervals. You can also unpublish (remove published files) using the same features. Scheduled publishing...

Large files are a problem on the web, because they take so long to download. For this reason, it is always recommended to compress media files (such as images and movies) before presenting them to the...

RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") is a way to subscribe to web content in an efficient, flexible, and convenient way.  To make use of RSS, you need an RSS reader (a program that understands RSS), and...

ExSite includes features to blast out fully-formatted newsletters. This is not done by a special plug-in. Rather, we use two other plugins in combination to get the newsletter functionality. * use...

It is easy to make your ExSite web pages search-engine friendly, and to optimize your search engine placement using the CMS tools. Before attempting a serious SEO effort, make an SEO plan that is specific...

An "extranet" is a part of a website that is not publicly accessible. To gain access to the extranet, you must first provide some authentication information (typically a login ID and password). This...

-- Introduction to Blogs -- Blogs (short for "Web Logs") are a special type of content management that has proven to be extremely popular. At their heart, Blogs present and manage a sequential list...

-- Photo Albums -- The Photo Album plug-in gives you a convenient and easy-to-use interface for managing your website images and photo collections. This document describes how to manage multiple photo...

A wiki is a collection of web-based articles that can be updated by their readers. The most well-known example is Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikis are very useful for: * knowledge...

ExSite provides a number of tools and facilities for managing multilingual web sites.

Plug-ins (sometimes called Modules) are programs that ExSite can call to perform tasks or generate content that the core system is not designed to do.

When entering new content into your web site, certain practices are best followed to ensure you end up with professional-looking and maintainable results. -- DO NOT USE the font face, font size, and...