Manage your website using a simple, step by step approach in the your admin panel, where your websites details, layout, content, forms, files, reviews and users are all easily managed through separate managers.
All webpages & news feeds generated comply with CSS, HTML 4.0 and RSS web standards set out by W3C, so your website will be presented well across multiple platforms and will integrate seamlessly with the latest internet technology.
PetchCMS uses GZip & Zlib compression to reduce the loading times of every page generated, while hotlinking is also prevented on images, which can all drastically reduce bandwidth.
PetchCMS automatically generates customised, useful and helpful error pages so users can see what else is on offer or how to find what they're looking for, should anything go wrong.
PetchCMS uses reCAPTCHA, the worlds most popular anti-spam CAPTCHA service, on all its forms. This stop spambots submitting your forms and logging in or signing up to your website and protects your users emails from harvesting.
PetchCMS automatically generates very simple, easy to remember URLs for your pages, such as page34.htm, where 34 is the ID of the page. This helps search engines to browse your site better giving you, and your users, a clearer URL to reference.
Create well-formatted content easily in your admin panel using a simple, customised, cross-platform WYSIWYG editor (Microsoft Word style editor) called NicEdit, that has been specially adapted for PetchCMS.
Integrate clear, real-time visitor statistics and web analytics about your website using Clicky - simply add your Clicky account details in the Site Manager. Or include it as a plugin, so your users can view stats on other sites.
All sites are is powered by PHP, one of the world's most popular scripting languages, and is driven by a database backend using the very popular MYSQL, making your site a widely supported, fast and very flexible application.
Get automatically updated via email about important events, such as a new user, payment and so on, removing the need to constantly monitor your site for new data.
PetchCMS enables custom, user-defined META information for your website and even its individual pages, based on specific META information added through the admin panel.
PetchCMS automatically generates RSS feeds for many parts of your website. These feeds can be easily accessed using plugins and links, so your users can subscribe to pages, searches, comments or user profiles.
Automatically generate watermarked, optimised and resized thumbnail images using phpThumb, so you're images are displayed exactly as you need them, with no quality loss and minimal filesize and bandwidth usage.
PetchCMS uses CSS stylesheets to control the way each page looks. Optionally select a different stylesheet for each page or choose the default website stylesheet. Edit stylesheets in the admin panel and customise CSS styles for any page element.
Create custom or automated menus, set the same menu for every page or a unique menu for each. Display menus on the left or right, or disable menus entirely - it's all easily managed using a step by step, wizard-style approach in the admin panel.
All your multimedia files, such images, videos and music, can be easily uploaded, previewed and deleted, with a very simple interface, using the File Manager found in your admin panel.
The PetchCMS admin panel features a simple User Manager, where you can search, manage and edit your users' accounts, reset their passwords, contact them or remove them from the site entirely.
Enable users from a variety of social networks to signup, login, comment, contact other users, subscribe to your site and even auto-update other users via email.
PetchCMS features a Form Manager in the admin panel, where you can build e-commerce forms and buttons, using custom PayPal 'buy it now', 'add to cart' and daily, weekly, monthly and yearly 'subscription' payment forms.
PetchCMS features powerful lightbox popups, so you can create inline popups without any coding, containing any webpage or multimedia. Here are some examples of lightbox popups:
A number of popular and useful 3rd party online services are integrated into PetchCMS by default, mainly through its 3rd party plugin system, so your website can offer the best of the web.
Unlike other websites, your site will have a built-in Plugin Manager, so you can create fantastic plugins with ease, or integrate other great web services into your website with very little developer experience.
Any page or even a specific content block can be reviewed, with Friend Connect, JS-Kit or PetchCMS itself. Reviews can be disabled for pages or content blocks and managed in the admin panel's Review Manager.
Create custom forms using the Form Manager and choose what happens next - have all submissions emailed to you, view and manage the submissions in the admin panel and/or display submissions on your pages.
Create unlimited numbers of pages, content blocks, forms, users, review & menus, and can create your site as you want it, without the hassle and worry of knowing what's possible & what's not.
Create totally customised website structures, not limited to any fixed system, like you would be with a blog so you can create online stores, information sites, pastebins, blogs, vlogs and much more.
You can choose who sees what on your website, when adding it to your site, through the admin panel. This allows you to easily create stuff especially for guests, members, admins or everyone.
Edit site-wide settings such as theme, width, background, or choose unique settings for each page. Easily select a layout module for your page and even customise layouts.