The content management system provides editors with the ability to make changes to the web site without needing any design or technical skills.  They do not have to be concerned with layout or structure of the pages, just the content.  New pages can be added, and the site navigation restructured at any time.

Editors add, change or remove pages by filling out a form on-screen.  The editing system has a number of features to reduce errors without placing too many restrictions on creativity.    Editors are guided as to the type of page they can add for each section, and the form they fill out is different depending on the type of page that they are editing, so editors are guided to enter the right information. 

Pages can include links to other pages (for example a news page can list headlines with links to the copy).  This can be done to any number of levels so the site can have a very complex structure.

The site you are looking at now has been created using this system.  Features:

• The designer can create unlimited numbers of different layouts
• Flexible page content depending on page type
• Workflow - pages can be edited in a two-stage process with management approval before release. 
• Different editors are restricted as to what types of page they can work on.
• Page content can be edited on-line using a word-processing type interface¹
• Formatted text can be cut and paste from another PC application and will retain its formatting¹
• Pages can link to uploaded files 
• Search facility
• Windows-style menu automatically generated from the site content²
• User registration for sections of the site
• Compliance statements
• Newsletter functions

The web site can be published for better performance and to be more 'search engine friendly'.  The publishing program only publishes those pages that it can, and not those that must be program-generated, for example because they are subject to user login.