Website

The website tools are simple, yet powerful

The website is extremely user-friendly and easy to manage.  Adding and changing information on the website is as simple as sending an email, or using a word processor. Easily add pictures, PDFs and other information to your website.  Photos can also be organized into online photo albums.

Drag and drop different elements to various locations on your website.

The website tools are based on the industry-standard content management system called Drupal, which is used to power millions of websites, including the whitehouse.gov, grammys.com, and many other websites.

Create different areas by topic/category and easily have pages that are associated with multiple categories. Such as information that is both about adult education and religious practices.

Have protected areas that can only be updated by certain people, such as the youth director can only update the parts of the website related to the youth department.

Get Social!

Areas for each committee, club or classroom. Each area can include documents, online discussions, and photos.

Treat an area like a  wiki, and collaborate on the information posted in their area. Also a great place to post meeting minutes, classroom assignments, or allow teachers to post updates for parents and students.

Allow one or more people to blog on the website! Their blogs are automatically linked to the community directory entry.

Online discussion areas, great for discussions related to your education program, or other hot topic.

Very robust controls allow you to control who can see and do what is appropriate for their role. Permissions can be time-based! For example: when someone's term on the board of directors expires, so does their permission to access the board member area of the website.

Save time: Seamless integration with the rest of the software!

The image library is the same whether you are working on a web page, or adding photos to a mass-mail blast, or adding photos to a funraising page. Its all one system.   No more wasting time having to upload the photo multple times: Once for a website page, then again for a funraising page or mass mail blast.

Single editor to learn for all areas:   You only need to learn ONE editor, that is used for editing the website pages, as well as editing fundraising pages, events, mass email messages, and one-time emails.

When someone's board membership expires in the membership area, their privliges to the board member area of the website can expire as well! This saves a lot of time when committees turn over at the end of the year.

People's blogs are automatically linked in to their entry to the community directory, or other directories you offer.

People only have to remember a single user name and password for all areas, whether they are updating a blog, participating in an online discussion, or paying a bill.