ImpressPages Content Management System

ImpressPages CMS is absolutely free software. It is within your right to modify ImpressPages and use it for personal or commercial needs if you comply with the obligations of GNU GPL license.

ImpressPages is user friendly software. Its tools enable user to manage the content of website in a convenient way. The advantage of ImpressPages is the opportunity to see how the website which is being edited will look like after the changes. All the information could be administered directly in the website. There is no need to perform monotonic lay-out tasks. Insertion of text, pictures, galleries and video is very simple.

From the very beginning CMS kernel has been developed considering the needs of SEO. The system/software automatically performs the major part of this task. Your website will have better ranking in search engines.

Specific SEO features of ImpressPages:

• automatic generation of SEO friendly URLs;
• setting of title, keywords, description and URL values for each page;
• automatic sitemap generations;
• content widgets are compatible with SEO recommendations for content.
  

Adding a new language for your website is a simple task with ImpressPages CMS. Only a few clicks without any technical experience and everything else is done automatically.

Nevertheless, website visitor can be switched automatically to the language that match his browser's settings. If website primarily is in French, English speakers can be redirected to English version without any notice or inconvenience to search for language switch.

Easy way to collect and manage email addresses or subscribers. Beautiful newsletters with custom style and nicely embedded photos.

Search core in ImpressPages CMS is made in Google fashion. All pages have unique rank for each keyword. Therefore, the most relevant content is always at the top.

You can easily adjust the look of search results and even group them by chosen subjects.

You can inform your readers about new articles by RSS. Any page can be chosen to be included into RSS feed. You can have a bunch of feeds - one for each menu category.

ImpressPages CMS core automatically generates website sitemap for users and for search engines separately.

System automatically log all events, warnings and errors. Important messages are sent by email to administrator. You will be the first, who will hear about broken links or other problems on the website.

Contact forms are nicely validated and have unique antispam mechanism that robots cannot beat them. There is no need for additional antispam filters (captcha, dummy questions, etc.) that disturbs the user.

If you need to change the directory where the website is placed (move from demo to live version, etc.), just move all files to the new directory, update base url and base directory settings and clear the cache. All links and paths will be rewritten without further notice. New website will be available in seconds.

Change the maintenance mode setting and website won't be available for visitors. You can leave any message you want. It's a nice tool for websites that need bigger redesigns on live website. Visitors will come back later and won't be disturbed by fuzzy stuff going on website.

As the whole system, installation and update wizards are there to help you to NOT mess up things. Every step is nicely described, every important setting is checked before allowing to go further. There is no long and messy readme files. Wizards are created in step-by-step style to make it more comfortable, easy to understand and easy to follow the instructions.