PageLeaf
Editor Tools  

A good webmaster can make your site into a mighty marketing and service tool. But these skills are rarely used to their potential, as the webmaster is often bogged down with basic data entry.

PageLeaf fixes that.

It decentralizes content creation, passing it on on to people who have the most knowledge about the topic, while the review and control of that content is centralized to a single person or small group of web editors. This ultimately frees webmasters from data-entry so they can use their full range of training and experience to benefit your organization's mission.

Page Approval Process

The central strength of an excellent website rests on the watchful eyes of someone looking out for content quality and consistency, and ensuring a navigation structure that's clear and logical. With PageLeaf, that centralized content control is ensured by the page approval process. Unless a particular content author has been given special privileges, all new or edited web pages must be approved by the Web Editor before they go to the live (public) site. If there is something on that new/edited page that does not meet with approval, then it can be refused, and an email sent to its author.

Web Editors have several methods at their disposal for managing the approval of new web pages:

Staging Area: This is the hub of the approval process, where editors review new content and approve, edit, or remove it. Usually, when a Page Author creates or edits content through PageLeaf it is sent to a staging area. Content in the staging area is not viewable through your website. Instead, the content resides in the staging area until a Page Editor reviews and approves it.

Auto Approve: Some Page Authors are given authorization to add new content directly to the website. Upon submission the new content is automatically approved. It bypasses the staging area and is immediately posted to the live site. This removes an extra step from Page Editors when working with trusted Page Authors.

Editing: Editors may access a page and make changes to it before approval. Or they may contact the page's author and request that he or she make the desired changes before the page can be posted to the live site.

Approve, Reject, Ignore: When reviewing pages, an editor is given three actions he or she can perform for each page in the staging araea. They can approve a page, which posts the page to the live site. They can reject it which removes the page from the system completely. Or they can ignore it, which leaves it in the staging area for future editing or review.

User Accounts

PageLeaf lets you grant permissions on an account-by-account basis, customizing workflow and giving fine-grained access control to your authors. Your existing LDAP or ActiveDirectory group membership structure may also be leveraged, so that you can manage page responsibilities at the role or department level.

Templates

To allow for rapid creation of content and a consistent, professional brand throughout the site, PageLeaf strictly separates content and design. Page Authors may add content, such as text, links, images, and documents, but are usually restricted from working with the design - the overall look and feel of your site. PageLeaf automatically streams the Page Authors content into a pre-made template.

Templates are made by a third party designer prior to the release of your website. They dictate where the navigation will be located, how the text will flow on the page, and establish the visual branding for your site. The template can define every aspect of your website's look and feel, including the font, the appearance of headers and other formatting issues.

PageLeaf supports an unlimited number of templates, and each template may have a different purpose. For example, some may be better suited to tables and some may be better suited to image galleries, others may be designed to go with specific section of your website. Often times Page Authors are able to select which template they wish to use. PageLeaf just streams the content into the selected template and generates a quickly loading static file.

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Section Links

Section Links are an extension of the template concept. Each distinct section on your website can have a template with a unique design. These sections may also have a set of Section Links. These links function like a secondary set of global navigation, as they appear on all pages and sub-pages within a specific section.

Page Editors may easily edit sections and sections links. They may also add new sections and section links whenever they see a need.

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Image Library

The primary purpose of the Image Library is to allow an organization to control the images used throughout the website. Page Editors can add a set of approved images to the library and page authors use those images for their web pages. Though some Page Authors may add images to the library if they are granted the permission to do so.

To make images easier to locate, each image in a gallery may be classified under a certain Album name upon uploading it to the library.

PageLeaf generates a report for the frequency of image use, and where each image is used throughout the website. Only Page Editors may review this information through the Reports area.

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Reports

PageLeaf unburdens webmasters from basic data-entry so that they can spend more time on strategic use of the website as a marketing and service tool. To further this end, PageLeaf also provides webmasters and Page Editors with reports that give them a bird's eye view of the website as it continually changes.

Most PageLeaf reports are designed to show authoring activity within a website so that the webmaster knows where resources and efforts are going, and where they need to be in the future. The reports also keep track of events, such as when pages require updating. PageLeaf is a highly flexible piece of software and can also be set up to accommodate custom reports.