CM1 Features

Percussion CM1 is a major breakthrough in how you manage your content. Read on to learn how your business can create, deploy, and manage sophisticated websites while providing direct control over your web content management. Learn more about Percussion's mission to productize web content management here. 

Designing site layouts, creating themes, adding new features to your website, embedding rich media and social content, and giving your business users control over your site has never been easier.

Whether you’re using it for websites, campaign pages, or microsites, you’ll be up and running in no time. Contact Percussion to schedule a demo today.

Social Engagement 

	Blogs Advanced blogging functionality enables blog content to be managed within the web content management system, which enables reuse, and better analytics.
	Tags & Categories Adding Tags to content and Categorizing pages allows you to group and present related items of content to visitors, making content easier to use and find.
	Comments & Likes Add comment fields and “like” icons to any web page and item, including blogs, news articles, images, whitepapers, videos, and more.  Allowing users to comment and rate content builds a loyal and devoted community of followers.

Create and Manage Sites and Pages

	Website Creation and Management Enable your content contributors to easily add and edit content using simple form-based editing or by clicking to make changes directly onto the page.
	Visual Navigation and Sitemap Editor Add, modify, and organize site sections and rearrange your navigation with a few clicks - even manage multiple websites from one place.

Site Design and Layouts

	Create a theme with just CSS Have a great web design? Simply upload the CSS to create themes for your website - no development needed.
	Visual Template Layout Editor Design page templates in an intuitive WYSIWYG user interface or choose from out of the box templates as a starting point.

Build Using Widgets

	Drag-and-drop functionality onto your web pages Adding new functionality to your website is as easy as selecting from a list of available widgets and dragging and dropping them right onto a page.
	Rich Media Leverage images, video, flash, and other rich media to build a compelling experience for your users.
	Easily embed new applications Enable your content contributors to easily add and edit content using simple form-based editing or by clicking to make changes directly on the page.

Manage Content Items

	Create, Delete, Move, and Edit Content Items A familiar, Apple-style finder allows easy browsing of site folders, pages, and content items.
	Asset Library Browse reusable content assets such as images, files, and shared text elements that can be reused on many pages.
	Form-Based Editing Casual contributors can make changes to your content simply by filling out simple fields - no training needed.

Workflow and Validation

	Approval Workflow Full workflow, including Draft, Review, Pending, Live, Quick Edit, and Archive, can be used for all content.
	Form Validation Widgets required field and other validation (e.g. dates) and enforce them as users edit the widget content to ensure content quality.
	Spell Check Spell check occurs in-line for any Widget with rich text editing.

Publishing

	Staged Updates Build site sections, campaign pages, and microsites and save and preview template and content changes before they go live.
	Manual Publishing Administrators can select a website and manually trigger the publishing of all pending content for that site.
	View Publishing Logs View a list of all the publishing logs, showing times and success or failure messages, and view an expanded list of files created for each publish.