StudioOS Features

Drupal Content Management System

Manage content with an easy-to-use web interface. Drupal's handles the rest. Software doesn't need to be installed on your computer, You can easily update your site from anywhere, even using your smart phone.  Get the lowdown on Drupal.

WYSIWYG Text Editor

This is the hub of all of your content creation. There is no need to know coding. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use this. As you type, change the styling, upload images, create hyperlinks, it writes the code underneath as you type. So you get full control of your content. Check out the 3 screencast tutorials, because there is too much goodness in the WYSIWYG Text Editor to cover it all here.

Blog

Keep your users informed on the latest news or let them hear about your latest ramblings.

Featured Content

Highlight something important at your site with a rotating banner on the homepage.

Notices

Quickly post reminders and messages about upcoming classes, events, workshops, closures, cancelations or special deals. Then send it to your social networks quickly with the Post it Everywhere feature.

Events

Post all of your classes, events and stat holidays for exactly the date and time they are going to happen. Then watch the calendar automatically update and the homepage block display the ones that are coming up next (then remove them automatically when they are over).

Products

Sell your products, registration, gift certificates, memberships, accept donations or whatever you want online.

Videos

We've mastered serving up video for your site. Upload your videos and they will be sent directly to your YouTube Account. There, they will be converted for use on the web and then sent back to your site. Your users can then watch them on your site or on your YouTube Channel. This way you don't slow down your site converting and serving up video. Let YouTube do all the hard work and get the SEO benefit of having YouTube multimedia on your site.

Photo Galleries

Display images of your latest events dynamically in in popup lightbox galleries. Easily upload images in bulk, and titles, then drag and drop to rearrange them.

eCommerce

This is almost a whole other CMS in itself. Your site comes with full eCommerce abilities. Sell products, class, event registrations or your pet fish. Even invoice your customers beforehand. It comes stock with the ability to link into your PayPal account, so you can accept credit cards. Users receive emailed receipts and invoices, or print them off. You can browse, print or export tax, stock, customer and product reports. Or even, quickly email all those that registered for a particular event just to remind them that it's coming up. If you want, you can also get an Extra Add-on to accept payment directly on your site (Additional Charges Apply)

Post it Everywhere

Our most favorite feature. No longer to do you have to go and repost your latest blog into each one of your social media accounts. Push, "Post it Everywhere" and it will send your latest post to Facebook Twitter, LinkedIn and FriendFeed all at once.

Schedule Content

Keep your content fresh and relevant. Schedule the publishing of a blog (or any content) to any day you want. Or schedule an event to unpublish when it's over. This way you don't have any stale, out-dated content taking space on your site and upsetting your users.

Version Control

Every time you save content on your site, Drupal saves it's history, You can always look back at previous versions or even revert back to any one of them, since the first draft.

Comments

Let your users comment on your blogs, photos and videos. You have full control over viewing them before they are published and there is even a CAPTCHA in place to catch SPAM. Get instant notifications when someone posts a comment on your site.

Content Management

Easily filter, search and edit your content all in one spot. No need to sift through to find what you're looking for.

eNewsletters

Send scheduled newsletters and manage subscriptions (users can subscribe or unsubscribe themselves). You can also import your existing distribution list in bulk. Finally, see statistics on who opened them and clicked through to your site.

RSS Feeds

Let your users subscribe to your ever changing web content right into their email inbox.

Menus

Easily add links to your menus and drag and drop to reorder them.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search engines, like Google, love URLs that actually have meaning. It helps them figure out what the content is all about and your users too. So, instead of www.pixelsweatshop.com/node/312, Your site will automatically use the title of the page you just made for the URL. www.pixelsweatshop.com/studioos-features. If Google ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Also, with a CMS, your content will be constantly changing. So, what if Google indexed your "About Us" page as being at www.pixelsweatshop.com/about and you then changed it to www.pixelsweatshop.com/about-pixel-sweatshop? The CMS recognizes this and creates an automatic redirect form the old URL to the new one. No more "Page not Found" Errors. And if they do get one, the site automatically generates a search for them using the terms in the URL.

Finally, it's one thing to create content, but if no one knows about it... Your site will automatically send a fresh XML Sitemap to Google, Bing and Yahoo to let them know when there is new content on your site to index, whenever you create it.

Dynamic Content

We have created a number of dynamic pages and blocks that update themselves automatically. Your front page gets populated with fresh new content whenever you create it. The upcoming block adds event as they happen; then automatically removes it when it's over. You have a calendar that allows your users to browse forward and back up to 1 year to see all of the events that you have going on. Also, the Multimedia, Videos, Photo Galleries, Audio and Blogs pages automatically get updated when you have made content that is specific to those areas.

File Uploads and Management

Your site has a built in file manager, so you can upload any type of file and share them with your users. PDFs, Word, Excel; pretty much anything. And you have unlimited storage space too!

User Management

Users can easily create accounts on your site. Manage their own passwords and usernames, without having to bug you because they forgot their password...again. Easily edit, delete, email your users in bulk.

Search

Drupal has built in search capabilities, so as you post content, it's readily available for your users to search. You don't have to wait for Google to find out about it.

Backups

Your site automatically backs itself up daily and you will always be able to recover anything you lost, as far back as 1 year.

Performance

Drupal is powerful and can handle a lot of traffic. It can serve up thousands of page views without even breaking a sweat.

Security

Drupal is secure. And with Webmaster QO-OP, your site will always stay that way. Hackers beware! The Whitehouse get's hundreds of hack attempts a day and Drupal keeps them out. Also, we have given you (and your team) as much access as you need to be able to manage your site, but we have also minimized the probability of accidently breaking something by closing off IT admin areas. We will protect it for you, to give you piece of mind.

Google Analytics

Google provides a free website Analytics service that tracks all of your sites traffic and we have added it into your site. No more hit counters. These reports will come to you weekly with info about who was on your site?, how long they were on your site? the most popular content. Even, compare over time period or see hits for a particular day. The info you get is almost endless.

Themes

You chose a great professionally-designed Theme for your site. Soon you will buy new ones when we launch our Theme Centre. Then you can have them quickly installed by us (at a very low cost). Change your look without breaking your budget.

Add-On Features

Your site comes with all of these great features. However, you can add more. Drupal has over 7,000 modules available to extend your website. We will be packaging them up and releasing them as Add-On Features. You can add them on at any time without having to start over from scratch. That's the beauty of Drupal. They have a saying in the Drupal community, "There's a module for that!"