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123Live Content Management System (CMS)
  - features and benefits

There's a lot to get your head around when choosing a content management system.

To find out if 123Live is a good fit for your business the best thing to do is pick up the phone, dial 01264 848123 and have a chat. We don't bite, and we will be able to tell you straight away if 123Live will work for you, and let you know how much it will cost.

We do the website design and all the technical stuff. You do the website content knowing that we're available by phone or email if you need help. Simple.

Hosted in London's Telehouse data centre. Telehouse is the longest established provider of data centre facilities. Over 18 years experience, financial stability and ongoing investment gives ultimate security, reliability and business continuity. Five out of seven of the UK’s largest Internet exchanges use Telehouse. Not the cheapest, but quite simply the best place to host your website. See also how we backup your content managed website.

We 'walk the talk' - this website is managed using the 123Live CMS.

Web-based, fully AJAX-driven CMS which means no waiting, everything happens at desktop speed.

No software or plug-ins to install.

Edit your website from any PC using Internet Explorer.

Add pages with one click.

Drag and drop to rearrange your website's menus.

Add sections within pages.

Drag and drop to re-order content within a page.

Change the page name, meta tags and other parameters that are important for search engines.

No dead links. CMS keeps track of internal links even when you change menu text or filenames. CMS will not allow you to delete a page if there are links to it from another page.

Upload your own images without having to worry about resizing and optimising them.

Add as many images as you want to each page.

Resize or rotate your images within the Content Management System.

Upload and link to any type of file - great for Excel, Word or PDF documents, or audio/video files.

Create links to your own pages, your files, other websites or email addresses.

Cut and paste straight into your website.

We build your website framework using hand coded, standards compliant HTML and CSS for fast, search engine friendly pages.

Multiple custom page templates and templates for sections of content within your pages provide an exceptionally flexible CMS environment.

Automatic menus, submenus and 'you are here'.

Easily exclude pages from the menus.

Exclude sections of pages from being published.

CMS publishes 'flat HTML' pages which load many times faster than conventional content managed pages by eliminating bottlenecks caused by database delays and dynamic page generation.

You can change pretty much anything - but the CMS makes sure you can't accidentally mess up the design.

What the CMS doesn't do

The 123Live CMS is not an 'enterprise' CMS. The CMS does not include user rights management, versioning, archiving, document life cycle control or workflow management. These features are generally only required for very large websites with multiple simultaneous contributors.

"After living in fear of how we were going to get a web site up and running, phoning 123live was probably the most productive phone call of the year. In six months we have established new customers both in the UK and overseas, and already have generated at least £250,000 of new business."

Julian Payne Shell Plant