Notanant features
Notanant has been founded on the principle of connecting people and information.
In terms of philosophy, Notanant doesn't start with the idea of a website as a collection of pages, but as a way of collating, organising and sharing information between people. By starting with this people focus, Notanant websites are easy to create, use and manage and have a wide range of site facilities to connect people and information, people and people and information to information. CMS and social networking together.
Editing
- Full web-based editing for pages and site structure
- Where-you-are-is-what-you-edit process for editing and adding pages
- No technical knowledge needed
- WYSIWYG system for text formatting
Content features
- Specialised content areas for articles/pages, news, galleries, forums, blogs etc
- %%components to allow a wide variety of content and links to be brought through automatically to any page or the site layout
- Site calendar with site events and possibility of member sign-up to events
- User controlled alerts system for content areas
- Site contact page and active address details (search by location)
- Built in search facilities
- Facilities for comments, bookmarking and reviews and sharing these with others
Design
- Dynamic site layout management - all sites page layout can be configured straight from a web-browser
- Full content-independent CSS based templating system that is instantly switchable
- Choice of templates and banner images
- Custom templates easily added to order
Audio / Video
- Ability to include images, audio and video
- Specialised photo galleries with automatically generated thumbnails
- Ability to embed video from sites like YouTube and Picasa
- Online resizing of images
- Automatic optimisation of images for fast loading pages
- Ability to add and re-edit alt and title tags
Membership and community tools
- Sites are built to have members (may just be the administrator)
- Friends network and social networking as standard
- Permission-based access to all pages and content areas based on membership
- Site linking and ability to build cross-site networks and communities
- Member management with options to create officers, set and enforce subscriptions
- Member's control their privacy and have their own page for their profile, password etc
- Member-to-member communications via email and via Notanant internal web-mail
- Bulk-member communication and ad hoc member groups can be set up
- Self-registration and subscription available depending only on permission settings
- Approval system for content, membership and member management
Administration
- Content management with page history
- Automatic administrator's site map and site statistics
- Simple permission-based switches to turn features of the site on or off
- Permission-based menus for administrator and users (don't see options that are unavailable)
Extras
- Extendible page-by-page internationalisation and multi-language capabilities
- Shop and product management:
- Catalogue, order only, download with payment and full payment based shops
- Product control with options and full product configurator possible
- Download and music products handled automatically through the system
- Music products, lo-fi demo versions created automatically
- Ability to build ad hoc scripts and classifications on data - for instance for contact forms, or for articles sharing common data fields (semi-structured data management).
Example uses
- Website and content management
- Social networking applications
- Membership management and publishing
- E-commerce systems
- Knowledge management
- Intranets and internal permission controlled websites
