Many of our clients are still running on an older version of CMS:42, while efficient at managing content these older versions of the CMS are showing its age with slower performance, and limited flexibility. Migrating to Webnetism's modern in-house 'Douglas' release of CMS:42 helps deliver a complete transformation to the way clients are now manging their websites.
The Douglas release CMS:42 has been fully redesigned around a powerful, intuitive page builder. The drag-and-drop interface lets you easily add and arrange sections, embed images and videos, create engaging carousels, and insert collapsible accordions all giving content teams full creative control without technical hurdles of more clunkier content management systems.
A standout new feature in Douglas is Snippets. These allow you to build a section once and save it as a reusable component across your entire site. Update a Snippet in one place and it instantly refreshes everywhere, ensuring consistency while saving massive time on repetitive updates. This can also be extended to entire templates where snippets can be arranged as the basis of creating your pages across your sites, again saving you valuable time in your content population planning.
Douglas CMS:42 also features a powerful forms builder that lets you easily create custom forms with a wide variety of inputs including text fields, dropdowns, checkboxes, file uploads, and more. Forms support staged progression through clear Next Step buttons, guiding users smoothly through multi-step processes for better completion rates. Seamless integrations allow direct connections to services like Mailchimp for automated list management, while custom external API support enables advanced workflows and data syncing tailored to your needs.
One of our valued clients at Over50Choices have just recently been upgraded to our latest release of Douglas and are taking full advantage of our new form progression features to help their visitors get Equity and Funeral plan information sent to them. Over50Choices also runs as a multisite network of three sites, with all content managed centrally from one Douglas CMS42 dashboard. Snippets are used on every page to embed reusable feedback forms asking if the content on that page was valuable and answers being sent internally to assess the quality of page content on their site. With this site upgrade Custom Variables were a feature that was needed within the CMS that could be inserted in text blocks to dynamically update publish dates across pages, however Custom Variables could be used for any type of dynamic content that a user in the CMS wants to display and is a very powerful new feature of CMS:42.
Overall having your website running on the latest version of CMS:42 delivers stronger security with timely patches, lightning-fast loading speeds that boost SEO, simplified workflows, mobile-ready designs, and lower long-term maintenance costs. The migration from older versions of CMS:42 to Douglas CMS42 involves careful planning, content transfer, and testing but the gains in efficiency, scalability, and future-proofing and access to a plethora of possibilities of bespoke features that make it worthwhile.
Migrating from Webnetism's older CMS:42 to Douglas CMS:42 offers a practical path to better security, performance, and daily usability which all our clients are currently benefiting from and empowering them to manage content quicker than before. Speak to Webnetism today to see what options are available to you to get you up to date with your website.
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