Learning Center

Welcome to the Contensive Learning Center

This guide is targeted to three audiences, end-users who use Contensive to manage their sites, designers creating and maintaining templates, and developers creating and debugging features with add-ons.

Beginners
Look at the Quick Start Guide if you are new to Contensive and need to get a feel for the system.

Content Managers
Look in Manage Content if you are a site owner looking for information about managing your site. Manage Users describes how to use the site to add and track your users. Manage Email describes how to contact your users.

Designers
Go to Manage Design if you are interested in creating and managing site templates and styles. Email templates are described in Manage Email.

Developers
The Developer Reference section has the system's APIs, as well as basics like how to install a development workstation.

Topics within this section

Quick Start Guide
Information for site users and content managers covering basic topics like logging in, editing pages, and adding users.

Introduction
What is the Contensive Site Management framework and what it does to make your site easier to manage.

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions, offering solutions to topics of highest interest.

Roles
Some features in Contensive can only be accessed by users with special rights. A Role is a collection of rights, like Administrator.

Managing Content
The basics of how to add pages and sections to the site. These topics are focused around the Manage Content section of the Admin Site Navigator.

Managing Users
The basics of managing users on the site, as well as organizations and groups, where you manage most permissions and roles. These topics are focused around the Manage Users section of the Admin Site Navigator.

Managing Add-ons
This section covers how to add, use and manage addons. Addons are features added to the basic site like a Blog, Forum, Meeting Registration, etc. All custom functionality written for your site is added as addons. These topics are focused around the Manage Addon section of the Admin Site Navigator.

Managing Email
This section covers how to setup and send email.

Managing Design
This section covers topics related to creating and editing Templates, CSS Styles, Menuing and Layouts used in addons. These topics are focused around the Manage Design section of the Admin Site Navigator.

Reports
Contensive’s reporting and analysis tools provide real-time assessment of how your customers, members or other target audiences are utilizing your website. You can generate standard or customized reports at will, focusing on the information that best suits your needs, using whatever date parameters you define. With these tools you can evaluate campaigns, track Web visitors and analyze e-commerce critical paths, as well as keep tabs on the performance and efficiency of your website.

Developer Guide
References and How-To guides for developers, including Data Architecture and API references.