What is Contensive?

Contensive SMS (Site Management Server) is software that makes your web site easy to manage and easy to extend.

Your site is always up-to-date because content managers can easily edit their content with a robust CMS (content management system), and add a library of add-ons to any page with just a click. Add-ons include blogs, twitter, meeting registrations, e-commerce, custom forms, flash photo galleries and much more.

Your site design is dramatic and eye catching because designers can apply any html/css design by simply pasting the html, styles and javascript into easy to use and understand online templates.

Your site features are dynamic and feature rich because developers can easily use popular scripting languages like php, visual basic and javascript. For more power, create server executables in Visual Studio that run faster and protect your source code. Add-ons in Contensive SMS can create content for pages, run as background services (like kron processes) or respond directly to http requests from ajax or from other sites/servers. Use built-in JSON interfaces, or roll your own.

What Makes the Contensive SMS Different?

Contensive extends beyond content management, giving full server access and control to add-ons. This architecture makes it much easier for designers to build and apply templates, for developers to create powerful site and server features, and for content managers to build, maintain and extend their sites.

New Contensive SMS Version 4

Contensive is pleased to announce the release of the Contensive SMS (Site Management Server), version 4.0. The new software is a dramatic change in the framework for the Contensive application.

The biggest change in the new release is the shift away from hard-coded features and page scripting, to a site management model controlled by the content manager for a dramatically lower life-cycle cost.

And on the technical side, don't worry, scripting languages like php, python, and visual basic are still supported. But the environment is extended beyond just web pages to include background services, remote methods, ajax and much more. Contensive supports SQL Server and Express, MySQL and even MS Access.

The content manager can still use the same successful rules-based work-flow content management. But now, the site administrator, with only a browser, can update site design, manage css styles, add dynamic features, and every other site development function often requiring IT or programming involvement.

In addition, all of the non-core functions within Contensive have been converted to Add-ons, so content managers can easily add new features (like a Blog) and manage its features with just a few clicks.

There are several reasons why this major architectural change is so important to you.

1. If you don't maintain an IT department, you will not need to contract out site management
2. If you have internal programming resources, Contensive v4 lets you easily use those website skills to create sophisticated applications with background services, etc, right from the site interface.
   
3. Features are now delivered in these small Add-on packages, allows the developer to more quickly react to changes and updates.
4. This add-on architecture allows us to easily incorporate third party programs into the Contensive environment.
5. Makes it easy for others to contribute to the functionality of Contensive by creating and modifying add-ons, essentially taking the best attributes of open source (community collaboration and sharing) while leaving out the worst (forking, and non-centralized architecture control and strategy direction).