Full Features List

Professional Design Options

Design Themes

Fully customizable design
Over 80 professional layouts included
Integrated design manager and editor
Full HTML/CSS access
Color coded HTML, CSS, and Javascript editing
Instantly apply a theme with a click
Switch between designs with a single click
Download full source code to modify designs
Create unlimited layouts per theme
Use multiple themes on the same site

Amazing Design Editor

Customize your own unique design theme
Easily change styles like colors, fonts, backgrounds, and more
Preview changes before you publish

Help from the LightCMS Network

Hundreds of experienced LightCMS designers
Search our network by location and specialty
Get help with coding your own designs
Get full custom design from professionals

Create Your Own Designs

Ultimate design flexibility
Use HTML and CSS standards
Use any client-side scripting such as jQuery
No proprietary languages to learn
Full design documentation and support
FTP access so you can design how you want
Design using any software you want
Upload unlimited custom themes
Built-in editor gives you fast, easy access
No proprietary languages to learn
Completely web-based
No software to download

Reselling Tools

Privately labeled for no extra cost
Manage all websites from a single login
Automated client billing - set your own pricing
Client demo sign-up script for your own site
Add new websites with a single click
Custom branding with simple, one-time upload
Custom toolbar colors
Branded website support
Upgrade and downgrade websites with ease
Manage users and permissions
Access to white labeled tutorials
Slick pricing tables provided
Require a user to set up a new password upon the next time he or she logs in

Hosting and Security

Top-tier cloud hosting / 99.9% up-time
Hosted in one of the nations largest data-centers
Redundant OC3 fiber backbones
Load-balanced server arrays
Traffic spikes won't effect performance
Broadly-diversified, cloud-hosted resources
No software upgrades
Data stored redundantly
Multiple on- and off-site backups
We run on our own system, so we respond immediately
24/7 monitoring with top-notch team on call
Three redundant electrical power grids
Battery backups, generators, and on-site fuel storage
Redundant HVAC cooling equipment
Physical security on site

SEO

Static, customizable, keyword-friendly URLs
Extremely fast loading speeds
Robots.txt
Easy 301 redirects
Field in settings allows global header code insertion
Friendly sitemaps
Page-level META descriptions and keywords
Web standards make every page search engine friendly
Alt tag and link title access
Light, built-in website analytics

Website Management Features

Powerful yet easy to use tools set LightCMS apart from the competition. Our content management tools are built specifically to make updating and creating content easier than ever before.

Blog

Familiar tools and buttons
Intuitive WYSIWYG editor
Custom CSS styling functionality
Easy to use HTML editor
Skinnable
Unlimited blog posts
Feed aggregation
Automatically saved drafts
Save states are easy to shift to
Simple or advanced view
Tools to manage images, links, and other media
Syndicate content with RSS links
Tag clouds
Automatic archive creation
Search functionality

Calendar

Aggregate multiple calendars' entries
Pull external calendar events (from supported software)
Rich text editor for event detail
Event pages
Recurring events
iCal feed importing

Sign-up

Let clients create sites under your account themselves
Choose payment plans

Form Builder

Quickly create completely customized forms
Drag and drop field creation
Automatic saving to database
Highly customizable
Custom email notifications
Set required fields
Set CAPTCHA security
Custom response messages
Enable password protection
Excel and CSV data exporting

Text

Familiar tools and buttons
Intuitive WYSIWYG editor
Custom CSS styling functionality
Easy to use HTML editor
Automatically saved drafts
Convenient save states
Simple or advanced views
Image Manager - upload, resize and edit images
Document Manager - upload and manage popular document formats
Media Manager - easily add embed videos and Flash movies

Photo Gallery

Drag and drop uploading (in supporting browsers)
Drag and drop image organization
Built-in display options including slideshow player
CSS skinnable
Customizable captions
Automatic image resizing available
Control transition effects, speed, and delay

Donation

Custom buttons
Accept payments
Set amounts or allow user specified amounts
Link directly to PayPal account

Evite

Visitors can invite friends to view site
Easy-to-create email template
Customizable

Files and Links

Create lists of files or links
Drag and drop to rearrange
Easily link to pages, other websites, or files

Our Fully-Integrated Online Store

Robust Product Settings

Simple interface that's easy to use
Add product detail in a rich text editor
Upload product images
Automatic image thumbnail creation
Set product options
Create product variants
Set product weight (for shipping)
Add product tags
Set pricing by variant
Set retail pricing to display discount to user
Easy on/off publish control
Import products from CSV
Unlimited categories and sub-categories
Inventory management and control

Seamless User Experience

Sleek, professional checkout pages
Intuitive interface that lends credibility
Attractive, automatically generated "inside" pages for products
Process any world currency
Use PayPal, Google Checkout, or Authorize.net
Easy shipping and tax tables
Create unlimited, custom discount codes
Automatically calculate appropriate shipping and tax
Edit your own checkout messages and content
Full control over terms, privacy, and service statements

Powerful Store Management

Simple, intuitive dashboard
Process orders or capture for later
Create product listings directly on your pages
Charge to enable store functionality
Create notes for specific customers
Export customer email addresses
Search, find, fulfill, cancel, and refund
Track inventory and backorders automatically
Create custom item lists
Order refund control
Powerful reporting for orders and customers
International currency and tax regions supported
Shipping matrix by weight or price
Custom taxes set up by region

Page Management

Add new pages with one click
Hide pages
Utilize CSS body class
Disable pages
Encrypt pages with SSL
Manage users and roles for display or edit of a page

Account

Unlimited websites
No limit on free websites
Disable / enable websites
Manage billing options for multiple sites
Quick overview snapshot of all your sites and traffic

Rewards Program

Phone support
Custom website options
LightCMS training sessions
Shine the Light program
Free company website
Priority email support
Free "Web Designers are Sexy" t-shirt
Network page listing
Up to 10% cash back!
Promotional case studies
The latest scoop on LightCMS

Support

Responsive, high quality e-mail support
In-line help articles by system features
Videos and step by step image how-to's
Support site for designers
Online user guide for end users
Support forum with great community
System status page
Support via Twitter
Product updates and notices on blog