DT Centrepiece

DT Centrepiece is a free content management system (CMS) for commercial or personal use. DT Centrepiece combines enterprise-class features, with excellent customization so you can make your website stand out from all the others.

Pros: This is a website building tool that helps you manage all the content you want to set up on your site. Whether for personal or commercial use it has features that can handle enterprise level sites too. Customization possible really makes the toolset really flexible. This itself is a free source tool and integrates another free source tool the FCKeditor that makes it very easy for a user to set up and edit a website. He can operate through the browser and make necessary changes with ease without programming knowledge. This is how simple it becomes, add or edit or even delete a page from the web browser. Change the website title, tag line and other options from one page. With DT Centrepiece 4, when you log in as an administrator, all the options will be added to the page you`re already on, so you`ll only have to click once to get what you want. This means, that when you give your website a skin, the administration and content tools still match the rest of the website. One can prepare a site that’s not only functional but look great too. Changing just the looks is easy. It is as easy adding a custom CSS into the custom CSS field in the settings options and you do not even have to edit the original CSS.

It is possible to add page toolbars, page content toolbars and search facilities so that a visitor finds what he wants easily. While that makes navigation easy, you could equally easily make areas in the site into controlled access. One could even restrict free download of specific contents. Create comments space for your own feedback to help tune whatever marketing, customer support or other operational policies. Set up sophisticated traffic monitoring tools that provide you data about who visits the site and what are they trying to access. That data in turn can help you make the experience compelling. FCKeditor that is integrated is a free source tool again and helps make great looking content fairly easy. Then there are the facilities about user registration or building up of a list of prospect. Most vital of this marketing activities are supported by tools such as AdminEmail, AdminConfirm, UserEmail, Automatic, and Disabled.

Cons: None that we could see.

Overall this is a very good well rounded toolset that makes website making/changing so easy. This is a candidate for 5 star rating.

DT Centrepiece is a free content management system (CMS) for commercial or personal use. DT Centrepiece combines enterprise-class features, with excellent customisation so you can make your website stand out from all the others!
With DT Centrepiece 4, you can:
Add edit and delete content from your web browser
Make a website without any programming knowledge
Have a website which is functional, and looks great
Change the website title, tag line and other options from one page
Easily deny and allow access to various parts of your website
Add custom CSS into the custom CSS field on the settings page to make your website look different without editing the CSS file
Let your users find what they’re looking for quickly with the related pages toolbar, the page content toolbar, and the search feature
Allow and deny access to your documents for certain users and groups with the downloads tool
Post comments on pages
View advanced traffic information, so you know who’s visiting your website and what they’re doing
Give your website good-looking content with FCKEditor
Choose from lots of useful user registration modes: AdminEmail, AdminConfirm, UserEmail, Automatic, and Disabled