Features... I almost hate that word. Features and Benefits. I had that drilled into my head back in my corporate IT days ... I was taught that customers wanted to know about features and benefits, so here I am telling you about them. Don't spend too much time here. The point I'm making... this blah blah blah means... Your website will look great, be easy to maintain and have tremendous expandability.
Zero HTML Knowledge Required
Allow any
authorized person to create new pages and update website
content - no special technical capabilities or HTML knowledge required.
Reduce training with an editing
interface designed to appear and function like a standard word
processor. Easily control the layout and formatting of text content to
ensure a consistent, professional appearance. Set-up new web pages
quickly without having to do separate layout and design for each page.
If you can operate a word processor, you're good to go.
Content Authoring and Automatic Publishing
News and events
can be scheduled to appear on the correct start date,
then automatically away when the event finishes. This allows the site
to stay fresh without having to remember to post and remove items on
specific dates.
Admins have full control over
who sees the content, allowing public access, member access or only for
those such as the board for sharing of internal news and documents.
Simple Poll Development to Gather Feedback
Build online
polls taking only the time necessary to type the question
and the list of possible responses.
Can be used to collect feedback from the public or be displayed only to certain groups such as members or employees.
You control how often
vistors/members can vote and results are automatically calculated after
the vote is cast.
Integrated Image Gallery
Any equestrian
website without an image gallery is missing out on big opportunity.
Each time an event is held, make sure someone is there with a camera. It's simple to create a new category to hold images and then display them within your website. If you want, you can even allows viewers to rate the images and make comments, if that's something you want.
This keeps traffic at your
site, not surfing at Yahoo or other public image galleries.
Embedded Video
The site will
accomodate video formats as well as still images. Why do
you need this? I hope you're joking. Allowing your boarders/
community to post clips of how their horse moves is a must-have!
Also, because this allows video
feeds from external sources like Google/YouTube, we can minimize the
resources needed to store and play video clips.
Simple to Use Event Calendar
Nothing fancy
here. You can enter an event with a description, date, and time, and
they will appear on a calendar within the site. Can have multiple
categories -- so board meetings don't appear on the same page with ice
cream socials. It's simple to use, easy to edit. Recurring meetings can be set up just like you might find in other popular email and calendar programs.
FAQs and Link Directory Organized by Category
Visitors and
potential members generally ask the same questions over
and over again. Break them into categories, then post questions with
answers. These are added just as you would news or stories, in other
words, very simply.
A well stocked FAQ section is
solid indicator of a well designed website.
Multi-Author Editing; Content Protected by Secure Login
One of the
features that makes this a powerful system is the ability to
allow designated members/users to maintain the content from any
internet-connected PC. You can assign, Authors, Editors or Publishers.
Members can be given Author status allowing them to submit their own
press releases and news items. Assigned admins login, review the
submissions and have full control over if/when the new item is posted.
If users should forget their
password, the system even has an answer for that.
Mass Mail Groups Directly From Within The Website
This system can
email users/members directly. While it's not an ideal
mass mail solution for large groups, it does work just fine for getting
quick messages out. Messages can be sent to any of the user types,
meaning that regular members can be held separately from employees. Of
course being able to send the same message to everyone... easily done.
Select the group, type the
message, then click just one button.
Built-in Search to Find Any Content by Keyword
Websites without
a search function would be a clear indication that the
site is not very well designed.
What's the point of having content
if you can't find it? With this system, the home page will have a
search field into which visitors can type any keyword that comes to
mind. A list of all content items containing that term will appear.