BlackMonk's mission is to provide creative tools that help anyone give a voice to their ideas. From the designers and engineers who are creating the next generation of web and mobile experiences, BlackMonk provides elegant solutions that sets new standards for online publishing.

1. BlackMonk is a powerful, scalable & highly customizable
content management system (CMS) for building web
portals. BlackMonk powers newspapers/magazines
websites, business directories, city portals, community
portals and more; its modular design and flexible
architecture allows customization of functionalities –
with ease and convenience that cannot be matched by
conventional CMS platforms.
BlackMonk CMS offers a superior user-experience & the
widest range of functionalities to help you get started
with just about any type of web portal project.
It’s got everything your web portal needs

2. BlackMonk is equipped with 20+ web applications such as:
business directory, classifieds, user management, etc.
typically used for deploying heavy-duty sites.
Articles / Blogs
Business Directory
Event & Venue Directory
Deals / Coupons
Photo Gallery
Video Gallery
Community / Forum
Classifieds
Custom Pages
Poll
User Management
Facebook Integration
Twitter Integration
Google+ Integration
Banner Management
Payment Processing (Stripe & Paypal)
Google Maps Integration
Search Engine Optimization
Reports

3. Completely customizable so you can build
anything
Fine-tune Functionalities
Add modules as and when you like, and
customize module features / workflow to
suit your needs.
BlackMonk CMS allows complete flexibility with respect to
functionality, workflow, design and layout. So, you can
build a portal around your business model.
Configure global settings
Easily manage global settings such as:
navigation links, third party services
integration, email response templates etc.
Advanced Customization
BlackMonk is built using DJANGO – a
world class Python web-framework.
Customizations can be made quickly –
without using third party plug-ins and ugly
workarounds.
BlackMonk CMS is tightly integrated with popular social media
platforms to drive social media exposure. BlackMonk’s ‘social
infrastructure’ facilitates seamless sharing of content on
prominent social media platforms (facebook, Google+, twitter
and pinterest), and helps drive traffic to social media profiles of
listed movies, events and businesses.
Social Media Optimization
User Generated Content
Allow your end-users to submit articles, events, business
listings and classifieds. Encourage discussion on content pages
through comments and invite review on business listings.
BlackMonk CMS has everything you need to empower your
web portal with the richness of ‘user generated content’.

4. Multiple revenue streams
BlackMonk CMS provides more avenues for advertising and promotional
content, so you can generate higher revenues
Display context sensitive banner ads on your portal’s home
page, section indexes and content pages. BlackMonk CMS allows
seamless integration with prominent ad-servers for effective
monetization of your portal’s ad spaces. The portal’s advertising
channels are fully controllable, and if desired you can keep
certain sections or slots ‘free of ads’.
Banner Ads
Earn revenues for publishing promotional content such as: press
releases, advertorials and product reviews. Set your own price for
each type of promotional content and get paid for submissions
made by end-users.
Promotional Content
Make money by sponsoring / featuring business directory
submissions and classifieds listings. And, set your own
category-wise pricing for sponsored and featured
submissions.
Business Directory & Classifieds
Start an deal store or earn revenue by inviting local businesses to
publish their deals and best offers on your web portal.
Deals
Earn revenue for sponsoring / featuring events, and set your
own ‘daily fee’ for sponsored and featured events.
Events
Add new dimensions to your web portal and augment your revenue
stream, by running affiliate marketing programs. BlackMonk CMS
enables easy and instantaneous integration with some of the best
affiliate marketing programs on the web including: FloristOne,
SimplyHired, MeetUp, Viator, and Expedia.
Affiliate Marketing
Self service end-user
control panel for
content submission

5. Fully optimized for search engines
Built on the principles of Responsive Web Design (RWD), BlackMonk CMS
produces web pages that can adapt themselves to various screen sizes. RWD
makes your web portal accessible through computers, smart phones and tablets.
BlackMonk CMS gives you complete control over the SEO aspects of your web
portal, by making it easy and convenient to tweak the key SEO elements of
home page, module pages and content pages (i.e. article, event, business listing
etc). BlackMonk is designed to offer maximum exposure on search engines, and
customers who upgraded their web portal CMS to BlacKMonk reported up to 2x
increase in website traffic.
Reach-out to mobile and tablet users
Easy to manage and moderate
Manage your web portal’s design,
functionality and content with ease.
BlackMonk CMS provides intuitive control
panels for admin and staff — with
conveniently placed contextual help and a
handy ‘quick help’ link leading to relevant
page on the online documentation.
Serve more info through third party feeds
Make your portal an information hub where end-users can
look-up businesses, events, movie show times, weather and more. With
BlackMonk, it is possible to incorporate filtered feeds from third party
information sources such as: West World Media, Yelp, City Search,
Oodle and others.

6. Technology Stack
BlackMonk is built in Django - a
powerful python web framework that
powers popular online services like
Instagram, Pinterest, DisQus, etc.
To ensure that applications are
scalable and future-proof, we use
bestof-breed web technologies:
Python, PostgreSQL, AJAX and
HTML5.
Hosting Requirements: BlackMonk
supports all major LINUX distributions
(Ubuntu / CentOS / RHEL / Fedora) –
and cloud services like AWS,
RackSpace Cloud etc.
Easy to manage and moderate
Manage your web portal’s design, functionality and content with ease.
BlackMonk CMS provides intuitive control panels for admin and staff — with
conveniently placed contextual help and a handy ‘quick help’ link
leading to relevant page on the online documentation.

7. Information at your fingertips
Easily track content submissions,web traffic, and user activity.
BlackMonk CMS provides thoughtfully designed reports to
keep your KPIs in check.
Straight licensing terms + Full source code
Our ‘no nonsense’ licensing terms allow single domain
deployment per license — with absolutely no restrictions on
number of users or number of content pages. You also get
access to the software source code.

8. Some amazing portals powered by BlackMonk :
https://goo.gl/I2XQhA
Business Enquiry:
Shaikh Naseer
Email :naseer@blackmonk.com
Skype : shaikhnaseer.ahmed