Core 3 Launched!

After much anticipation from some of Rogue Interactive’s expectant clients… and blood, sweat and tears by the Rogue Team over the past few months, we are very proud to announce the launch of Core 3.

The Core CMS system has been in development from its first incarnation some 5 years ago to the launch of version 3 this year. Many of Rogue’s past and current clients are still benefiting from and using the base CMS as the hub of their online and intranet toolsets. The Core1 and Core2 CMS currently run multi-site systems for clients such as Leeds Castle, GSE Group, English Heritage Buildings, Caldecott Foundation, KMFM Radio Group, KMFM Bands, Kent Cricket Club, Bennet Opie, ASE Solutions and most recently the KM Motoring portal which inspired many of the new toolsets within Core3.

The Core3 system is the biggest step forward in full content management for our clients, catering for both clients with little to no experience, to the more seasoned developer who can utilize the comprehensive development and customization tools.

Rogue Interactive will firmly position itself as a development partner, helping both clients who need assistance in managing their site setup and content population, through to clients requiring specific tools and functionality uniquely built into their Core3 system.

System Architecture

Linux System running Apache, MySQL V5.0, PHP V5.2, HTML 4.0, XML, JAVA applets, Flash player V8 or higher

Core3 Compliance

The base Core3 system is W3C HTML4.0 compliant and CSS compliant. Due to the nature of CMS adaptability, we cannot guarantee that after a client has populated a site with their own HTML content and images, that it will still pass the validation tests.

We endeavour to meet the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Content Accessibility Guidelines set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and we aim, wherever possible, to ensure we conform to 'Double-A' standards. We intend to keep improving our accessibility tools, but can only offer our client the tools to help them make their content accessible, for example, complete control over navigation tab indexing and access key shortcuts as well as the more basic meta data and title tagging for all images and links. Correct use of heading (h1,h2 etc) styles for content importance is purely at the clients discretion.

Security

Over the various versions of the core we have learnt many lessons over security. Core3 is by far our most secure and advanced yet. Below are just a few of these security features.

• Every user is uniquely tracked through multiple sessions
• Link sharing is fully catered for by reverse detection and session modification.
• Session strings are encrypted
• Restricted menus are hidden from view
• Every page has access checking server side

Granular access and administration

Each Core3 system comes complete with a full staff administration and access level system for overall and sub website control and setup. Each sub-site has administrative access for control over all functionality relating to its specific toolsets and content control. Content Sharing is available within specific systems, allowing news categories, calendars and so on to be shared across different sub sites if required.

Navigation Setup

• Create navigation items and assign to root or to any other item to create sub navigation
• Apply  pages, templates, directories, galleries, download categories or links to navigation items
• Set access levels for user access to specific items or sub navigation folders
• Set access keys for accessibility options - Set Live or Demo (On or Off) to quickly rollout or turnoff content

Homepage Manager

• Optional homepage manager for basic homepage setup
• Control news display listings and news archive search options
• Control events calendar and customisation options
• HTML / WYSIWYG editor for main homepage content

Templated Pages

• Choose from one of 5 pre templated pages
• Place text and upload images (auto resized) to create basic web pages
• Assign pages as navigation items
• No training or experience required to create and amend content

HTML Pages

• Full HTML WYSIWYG inline editor (development experience is required)
• Create multiple HTML  page layouts
• Assign pages as navigation items

Dynamic Pages

• Optional override at Admin level to assign dynamic page content to navigation items, allowing for further site development by the Rogue team or other experienced developers.

Headers and Footers

• Website header and footer control using HTML Editor at administrator level.
• Optional override at Admin level to assign dynamic page content for expanded navigation or other dynamic based content.

Latest News System

• Multiple news categories - HTML content entry using WYSIWYG editor
• Story Image upload
• MP3 audio player (optional)
• FLV Video player (optional)
• Document Downloads (optional)
• News archive with keyword  search system

Calendar Events System

• Event data including title, address, description, dates, times etc.
• Optional event image upload and display
• Customisable listing generator for homepage events listing

Directory System

• Database Constructor
• Data input via user constructed forms
• Data import and export in CSV format*
• Display generator with customisable functions for sorting, indexing and paging options
• Listing Image and document download enabled
• HTML introduction header
• Apply multiple directories as navigation items

Downloads System

• Multiple download categories
• Apply categories as navigation items
• Create HTML headers for each category
• Upload multiple file types with titles and descriptions

Photo Galleries

• Image upload repository
• Image titling and optional descriptions
• Gallery category management
• Choice of 3 gallery types, all with a maximum of 16 images Image Flip, Transitions and Picture Pop.

Site Search

• Search accessible pages within group sites.
• Search for keywords within Meta data – title, description and meta tags.

Banner Management

• Assign banners at page level
• Upload gif files or use 3rd party HTML code
• Top and bottom banner placement options
• Standard 468x60 banner spots with CSS editable containers

Image Maintenance

• Upload images for use within your HTML / WYSIWYG based content
• Image TAG generator to ease implementation

CSS Maintenance

• Inline flash based CSS engine
• View, amend, delete and edit full CSS classes at site level
• Experience with CSS is required to use this tool to its full extent

Additional licensed tools included within your Core3 setup

• HighSlide Java applet – used specifically for Picture Pop gallery system
• FCK Editor – integrated as the in-line HTML editor.