WebLion benefits
WebLion can help you achieve a more cost-effective internet presence and respond more quickly to change.
Become a WebLion partner to achieve a wide range of benefits:
More (cost-)effective internet presence
No “webmaster bottleneck”: many people can update your site
- What-you-see-is-what-you-get interface means anyone who can use a word processor is capable of updating your website's content
- Fine-grained control over who can add what, when
- Option of having someone(s) review material before it is published (workflow)
- Precise control over who can see what, when: intranets and public sites on the same system
Automatic publishing of content
- Have items show up and disappear automatically (for example, depending on the date)
- Automatically archive old versions of pages
- Where relevant, pull in content from other sites, and push out content to them (via RSS feeds and web services)
Accessible, usable, secure sites
- Easy for your faculty/staff/students to contribute content and keep it up to date
- High visibility to search engines
- Accessible to people using screen-readers
- Human-readable URLs
Software that you don't have to buy
- The content management system and plug-ins are all open-source: your staff can use and adapt solutions developed for free by an ingenious, international community of developers
Respond more quickly to technological/cultural change
- Once on the platform, redesigns will be relatively easy and fast
- Enable interaction and transaction with users, as well as presenting information to them
Transform your business processes
- Use the web to do your administration and paper-pushing more quickly and efficiently
Examples from current partners include systems to:
- Review and approve students who apply to graduate programs (Huck Institutes)
- Collect paperwork needed for course accreditation (College of Education)
- Share course materials among relevant faculty (Department of Meteorology)
More benefits
WebLion is a version of the Plone content management system, customized for Penn State. Consequently, it has all the benefits of Plone.
