What is Ripe Website Manager?
Ripe Website Manager is an all-in-one content management system (CMS) and website hosting service.
It is designed for any person or company looking to own and manage their own website.
We have customers ranging from hobby cake-makers to multi-million turnover corporations using Ripe Website Manager websites. Ripe is essentially a web based application that includes everything - your web hosting included - which enables anybody who wants or needs a website to create and manage their own website with ease.
What can Ripe do for you?
Ripe makes creating and maintaining your website easy - without the constant need and expense of a web designer. As a Ripe Website user, you can attach your own domain name and brand your site according to your taste and/or company profile in easy steps.
You can create pages and edit pages, post news articles, add galleries, videos and make contact and other forms - even let visitors join in with topics you raise. You can collect data from your visitors and monitor visitor stats. Ripe also has a range of integrated applications (modules) that will turn your website into an online shop or events system and even let you stay fully in touch with your customers via Ripe Newsletter Manager. All this from just the one, easy to use and familiar control panel. No logging in and out or the various functions you want to use or different admins to have to get used to...
Who can benefit from using Ripe?
Ripe Website Manager is extremely versatile and can power any type of website:...
- Personal and/or hobby websites
- Small Business Websites
- Corporate Brochure Style mini-sites
- Online Magazines, Newspapers, and Publications
- E-commerce / Online Shops
- Custom Online Applications
- Non-profit and organizational web sites
- Community-Based Portals
- School and Church web sites
- Large Corporate Multi-administrator websites
Technical features
Front-end Features:
SEO - Pages created with ripe have search engine friendly urls and very clean code which search engines really like.
Template system – Ripe uses a powerful template tag system. It’s possible to get ripe to work with any website design. Build or tweak your own design or get the professionals to make something.
Searching – Content is fully indexed and searchable at all times, using a keyword relevance scoring system.
Users and comments –Ripe allows the admin to allow visitor interaction with the website with the chance to leave comments on articles etc. Users could even post content if the admin wishes. User interaction is one of the key elements to say your website is part of web 2.0 which is a bit of a web fuss at the moment.
Administration and analytics Features:
Simplicity - Ripe has been designed from the ground up to be easy to use.
Wysiwyg editor - An elegant, simple to use ‘what you see is what you get’ editor to edit content. It 's just like using a word processor.
Form manager – Quickly make and manage web forms and get notified when someone has posted on your website.
User groups – Using Ripes user groups you can have multiple admins with different levels of administration access.
Members – Have members sign up for your website or just store member details for email news letters etc.
Web based – Means that the admin can be accessed from any computer at any time.
Stats – Ripe includes visitor stats. Get an overview of your visitors, where they came from and what pages they visit.
Modules – Modules can add any functionality to your CMS that you need and can be coded by anyone. Anything is possible with modules.
Performance and scalability:
Speed - Blistering front-end load times. Ripe averages load time in less than 0.02 seconds. This is achieved with lean, thoughtfully planned out code.
Modules – Ripe is easily extendible with the use of built in page types, page components, and template blocks. This is three different methods to customise how the final page will look or act.
Security:
Ultra tight security – A lot of PHP applications can be very unsecure if coded badly. Ripe has focused a great deal on the security. Form inputs are always validated to prevent SQL injection hacks. PHP includes take extra care that there will be zero chance of a cross site scripting hack. Encryption is used for sensitive data and when using any third party modules dangerous code is prevented to process.