For authors
"it makes life simple - who the hell needs complicated?"
Saving you time and money, Lantern offers the ease of use that your organisation needs to confidently take control of its content management.
Access anywhere, anytime
Because Lantern is web-based users can log in anytime and publish from any PC, anywhere in the world. Users simply open their web browser, navigate to the Lantern CMS website and enter their login details. The Lantern Console opens and users are faced with the "My Work Area" screen from where they can launch to the web structure navigation tree, editor and review sections.
Edit simply
Lantern gets content to your website fast and keeps it up-to-date because users love using it. The easy-to-use WYSISYG editor makes authoring content in Lantern just like using a word processor. Here, users have instant access to everything they need, including images, documents, workflows and powerful reporting functions.
Text formatting is a snap, while pages can be conveniently previewed prior to publishing.
Ensure consistency
The consistent presentation of content is a major feature of Lantern. Administrators are able to quickly and efficiently set global values for text, images, metadata and much more, so that non-technical users can concentrate simply on inputting content and your organisation always presents a uniform appearance to the world.
This automated publishing process is assisted by the use of Encouragement Tools™, a series of wizards that promote standardisation and allow website edits to be easily managed in-house.
Fast, effective training
A reduced dependency on technical skills is a major feature of Lantern CMS.
By employing a familiar, Windows-like interface, users aren't required to sit through hour-upon-hour of training. In fact, just one hour's training is all that's required for content authors to confidently begin publishing.
That's also good news for organisations that are used to the costly outsourcing of their web publishing. In effect, anyone who can use a word processor and a web browser is qualified to publish using Lantern.
Up to date links
Lantern makes sure you never publish a page that contains links to a page that is yet to be published, by conducting an automatic check of links when a page review is initiated. Lantern gives you the abilty to:
- Validate and report on all links per site
- Validate and report on links per status
- Validate and report on links per type, e.g. internal, external, images and documents
- Lantern also lets you open the impacted page/s directly from the report for immediate resolution.
Support when you need it
Impressively built and engineered, and with nine years of proven commitment to supporting client needs, Lantern is a stable and reliable content management system.
Clients are encouraged to contribute to the evolution of Lantern. Our popular annual users' conference provides the opportunity for the Lantern community to collaborate and discuss future product directions. Our commitment to day-to-day support is demonstrated by way of a valuable helpdesk facility.
Lantern offers a regular release schedule and a straightforward upgrade procedure that forms part of the maintenance and services agreement. Clients and partners can also interact through our online forums and get dedicated information via the Lantern online community.