Manage Users, Roles, and Access to Your Site.
People need to interact with your website – either to make changes and edit pages and files on the site or to login to see secure information. Our software contains a robust and powerful user management system that makes this process simple.
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Setup your usersAdd new users to your website. Edit or delete existing users. It's easy. Any user that you setup will have the ability to login to your site. But they won't all necessarily be able to edit content on your site. You control what each user is able to do through roles and permissions. Note: User control is most powerful on our Pro and Premier plans, which allow multiple user accounts. |
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Setup your rolesRoles are basically groups of users who are granted certain permissions. You can setup as many roles as you like and then assign any user to any role. Then, using the powerful permission settings on each page and element (see below), you can allow or disallow groups of users from seeing or editing content on your site. Any user can be assigned to any number of roles! |
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Permission control -- where it all comes togetherThe permission system is one of our most advanced features. This type of functionality is usually only found on enterprise level CMS systems, but we make it available to every single website in our system. Every page and every element offers edit and view permission control. You can create pages that only certain users can view (nice for company intranets) and also allow certain users to edit the content on certain pages (nice for sharing the workload!). Examples: You could give John access to edit only one small element on a page, but give Jill access to an entire group of pages and then give Bill access to the entire site. At the same time you may have a group of users that need to download sensitive information that only appears after they have logged in. |
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Water Features Q & A
Other website builders seem to have a huge list of features. Why?
Most feature listings are fluff. Water can do most if not more than most systems on the market. However, we intentionally designed Water to do less. Why? Because our goal is not to do the most - our goal is to be the best. Instead of spending our time putting features into Water that only a select few would use, we spend our time refining the features that most businesses and organizations actually need.
What are the system requirements to use Water’s top tier website builder tools?
Because Water is an online application, there’s nothing to install. All you need is an internet connection and a modern web browser. We officially support IE 6 or later on the PC, and Firefox on Mac, PC, or Linux. We do not support older versions than the ones listed above. If you have IE 5.x, we recommend upgrading to IE6 or Firefox – both are compatible and free.
Can I run Water’s content management system on my own servers?
No. Water is only available as a web-based, hosted application.
