Special Announcement

Our new website, designed by Daniel Doherty and the team at MerlinFX, goes live on Friday, 12 March 2010. It now incorporates both Facebook and Twitter. Features include:

News

• Advanced article management functionality
• Community Capabilities allow users to comment and rate articles. A number of RSS feeds are provided by latest, category and author.
• Workflow Capabilities, support for allowing registered users to submit and approve articles. Email notifications are sent to users as the article moves through draft, submission, approval.
• Advanced Article Management such as Publish/Expiry dates, Multiple Categories, Featured and Multi-Page articles.
• Social media integration using AddThis: One button. Your content everywhere. AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. We help website publishers and bloggers spread their content across the web by making it easy for visitors to bookmark and share content to their favourite social destinations.

Calendar

• A calendar page with rollover pop up for a sneak peak of the event
• List events by month, week or list view
• Truncate events to the home page for a snapshot of the next number of ‘x’ number of days.
• Auto appear and archive features and more
• Include all events here: Classes, Activities, School Holiday Activities, Vacation Care Activities etc

Photo Gallery

• Photo albums of readers. You might like to consider a number of albums instead of having one massive album.
• Easy to use, small foot print on page.
• Uses thumbnails to quickly locate images.
• Features: download image, email a friend, auto play, other user controls
• Option: Private or Public Galleries.
• Easy of management for webmaster, bulk upload of images.

Smart FAQ

• At MerlinFX, we use a clever dynamic method for displaying FAQs; the more popular the question, the more it rises to the top of the list.

Bookmark & Share

• A unique one button option for your site visitors to Print, email, bookmark and share your site with numerous (growing) social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Digg and many more.

Subscribe

• Allows site visitors to Optin to your e-newsletter.
• Double Optin included (a user requests subscription and a verification email sent)
• SPAM ACT 2003/4 Compliant

e-newsletter

• Access via secure username and login process
• Send branded customised newsletters, invitations etc
• Track all opens right down to the user, including date and time.
• Easy to use within the CMS.
• Have multiple distribution lists.
• Manager Subscribers
• Import Subscribers
• Schedule your mail campaigns.

Site map

• A Google friendly hierarchal page links of your web site.

MFX Control

• Webmaster only access
• Access Shop features
• Manage Users
• Access web statistics
• Create Newsletters, track campaigns and monitor subscribers, add etc.
• File Manager for managing all content files (your images, documents etc) on web server.

Management System

• Easy to use content management system