Blurbs, Forms, Files, etc.

Flexible and versatile content types for all sorts of needs.

Blurbs are a freeform content type that can be used for just about anything. Here’s a common use case: displaying one of a list of short paragraphs (in this case, CMS features).

  • <div class="card" style=""><div class="card-body"><h3 class="card-title">Built-in accessibility features</h3><small class="card-text"><p> Each page of a LiveWhale-powered site is dynamically tested for accessibility and scored in a way that’s immediately visible. If any of your pages have accessibility issues, your user will see a warning, providing your support team with an educational opportunity. 
</p><p> But LiveWhale’s also working behind the scenes to keep accessibility errors to a minimum, enforcing best practices and structuring content to meet current standards and guidelines.</p></small></div></div>
  • <div class="card" style=""><div class="card-body"><h3 class="card-title">Easy to use (for everyone)</h3><small class="card-text"><p><strong>Built to be useful, friendly, and even fun </strong><br/> Managing a university website isn’t ever just one person’s job; it requires collaboration from a variety of people with a diverse range of skillsets. That’s why we set out to make LiveWhale the easiest enterprise software to use in all of higher education, with one-click, edit-in-place webpage editing and simple management of content like news stories, events, photo galleries, blogs, social media integration, video, and more.</p><p> Basic page editing requires little or no training; the more a content manager wants to do on her website, the more tools she can add to her LiveWhale toolkit.</p></small></div></div>
  • <div class="card" style=""><div class="card-body"><h3 class="card-title">A robust system for student and faculty profiles</h3><small class="card-text"><p> Profiles are different from other content in your CMS, because (in most cases) they’re related to specific people. This means those people should be able to manage their profiles, and fields should be synced to your HR databases to keep important info synchronized.</p><p> You may have staff who are also alumni; they may have a staff <em>and</em> an alumni profile. Or a professor in one Faculty may have a joint appointment in another, and need somewhat different info on the fields in his profile in either location.</p><p> There are a lot of complexities to making the most of student and faculty profiles. Because of our deep higher ed experience, we’ve encountered (and resolved) almost all of them. 
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LiveWhale’s powerful Forms module lets users create, deploy, and collect data from web forms, with a variety of additional hooks and handlers available to developers. 

This is an example form for a LiveWhale CMS demo. 

text field
e-mail address field
textarea field

Files are most often used to organize and display PDFs and Word docs, but can also be used for ZIP archives, media files, or any other downloadable file type. Here’s a simple files widget: