Searchlight is an advanced content management system that has been evolved over five years specifically for City Council and Local Government clients. The product was originally developed for Fairfield City Council, then expanded for Tamworth City Council, Belyando Shire Council, Burwood City Council, and has been totally redeveloped for Campbelltown City Council and Fairfield City Council.  Burwood Council has just agreed to upgrade to version 5 in June.

Light Web is currently on the shortlist for Liverpool City Council's upgrade, and the IT manager has stated that our CMS was "the most user-friendly of the bunch."

Current implementations of the Searchlight CMS may be found at the following locations.

 Campbelltown City Council (v5)
 Fairfield City Council (v5)
 Fairfield City Council Intranet (v5 under construction)
 Burwood City Council (v4)
 Burwood City Council (v5 under construction)
 Belyando Shire Council (v3)
 Belyando Shire Council (v5 under construction)

Searchlight provides a customised look for each client.  Each of the designs for these local government websites were developed in close consultation with the client's media, communications and IT representatives themselves. 

Version 5 Software includes

• Multiple Administrator Access & Permission Levels
• Template Driven Content Pages
• WYSIWYG Editing/Content Authoring
• HTML Editing/Content Authoring
• Advanced Table Manager
• Site Pruning
• Built-in Workflow Process
• Page Rollbacks (Current, Last, Past)
• Job Management Template with Job Archive
• FAQ Template (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Services A-Z Template
• External Link and Internal Link functions
• File and Image Upload
• Trashcan and Archive capability
• Backups every Half Hour
• Personalisation of Primary Navigation
• Site Search and Advanced Search
• Category/Page “Tree” Management
• Page Counters and Site Usage Reports
• Cascading Editable Dynamic Navigation
• Complete Documentation
• Context-Sensitive Online Help
• Art Gallery Manegement
• Survey Management
• Customer Request Forms
• Events Calendar Managament
• Banner Advertising Management
• Forum
• Email Management Sysstem
• Internal Email and Messaging System
• Business Database
• Hotlinks/Quicklinks Capability
• Print Friendly Templates
• Font Size Increase/Decrease
• Bad Word Management
• Email Notification System as Required
• Image Resizing