Manage Structure

Website Development - without any programming to do.
The system is component based, with each component configured from a control panel called the Behavior Editor. Each website has its own Layout Manager, and its own access permissions. Website building is a simple drag-and-drop from the 'store' of components into position on the site tree.      See a demonstration.

Pages and Sections - the basic building blocks

Despite its apparent simplicity, the Page component has some powerful features that make site maintenance quick and consistent. The most apparent of these are the Styles and Style Inheritance. This enables you to set the styles for a whole section of the site in one place, and all the Pages within that section automatically take on that style. And if the style needs to be changed, the change can be made in one place, and all the pages instantly take on the new appearance.

Ordinary Users do not have permission to change the style settings thus removing any risk of them damaging the website during the editing process.

Automatic navigation

neatComponents websites have inherent navigation - each page and component knows where it is within the site and that is displayed in the navigation system.

Navigation respects the Access Permissions of the pages and Components, so it will not show visitors to the website pages or sections that they are not entitled to see. A neatComponents website will not tantalize the visitor by showing them a link in the navigation and then deny them access to that information.

Navigation can be set to fly-out (or drop-down) as appropriate -  as you will observe in the various sections of this website. Navigation can be styled in the normal ways - for size, font, background and so on.

Navigation is a characteristic of Layout Elements and so can be displayed in numerous ways on different pages if the Designer wishes.

The system manages the display of navigation links throughout the site, ensuring that if a page is moved, or renamed, all the links are automatically updated throughout the site. 

Inheritance

To minimize configuration, unless otherwise set by the designer, the access permissions are Inherited within a website or within a section of the site, so setting a permission in one place affects all related pages, without having to visit each one individually.