| 10 POP3 Email or Webmail Accounts |
All websites come with 10 email addresses. You can choose to have these emails delivered to your PC through Outlook / Outlook Express (POP3) or access them on the move using our own Webmail package. |
 |
| 2 x Ordnance Survey Maps |
As standard we provide two Ordnance Survey maps of the local area, courtesy of our partnership with HM Stationary Office. |
|
| 7-days per week Technical Support and Updates |
Our excellent websites would be useless to you if we did not back them up with equally excellent support. Therefore, in addition to the Site Admin Section, all our customers get access to the UPDATE REQUEST TOOL - this is a live ticketing system which allows you to ask questions, get support or request changes to your website at any time. All normal changes are made within 5 working days. All urgent changes are made that day. |
|
| Calendar of Meetings and Events |
Our Calendar of Meetings and Events is a great way to publish information about upcoming events in the village. |
|
| Content Management System (Site Admin Section) |
Our award-winning Content Management System, called the Site Admin Section (SAS) allows you to log-in and update the important parts of your website whenever you want. Unbelievably simple to use and with a complete user-manual, the SAS has been built from the ground up JUST for Parish Councillors and Clerks to update their websites. |
|
| Councillors' Details Editor |
The Councillors Details Editor puts you in control of your contact details, by letting you add, edit or delete Councillors and their details. It even lets you include photos of the Councillors (where you think they might be appropriate!) |
|
| Domain name (website address) |
Your Domain Name is your website address. Current guidelines recommend a domain name of www.YOURCOUNCIL-pc.org.uk. If you want a .gov.uk domain name, you may need to pay an additional charge to the UK Registrar of Domains. |
|
| Fully Automated Site Monitoring |
Our websites are monitored 24 hours per week, 365 days per year, using our very own automated warning service. If a Parish Council website is in any way compromised by hackers, we receive notifications as soon as any aspect of the site is changed using the Site Admin Section, thus prompting us to lock it down and secure the site. |
|
| Live Local Travel Report Feeds |
Our Local Travel Feeds beam live local information into your website, updated 24 hours a day. You do not need to do anything to keep it up to date - it does it all for you with information from the Highways Agency. |
|
| Live Local Weather Feeds |
Our Local Weather Feeds beam live local information into your website, updated 24 hours a day. You do not need to do anything to keep it up to date - it does it all for you with information from the BBC and the Met Office. |
|
| Minutes and Agendas |
The document archive has a separate page where visitors can access and download copies of minutes and agendas. |
|
| News Editor |
The News Editor lets you input short news stories from the local area, complete with photos, documents and flyers where appropriate. |
|
| Secure Document Archive |
You can upload Word or PDF documents to your website using our secure document archive. |
|
| Unlimited Pages |
We do not have page limits on any of our website packages. However, we do recommend that Parish Council websites are kept to a reasonable size. This is because it means that people will be able to find the information they require if it is concisely and easily laid out, and also because it means less administration work for you! |
|
| Website Hosting |
Our hosting package is extensive, and we do not carry a maximum file size, which means that you have no limits on the number of files and documents you can upload to your website. |
|
| Website Links Editor |
Our Links Editor lets you add, edit and delete links to local organisations, such as County, District or Borough Councils. It also lets you upload a small thumbnail image or logo where applicable. |
|
| Local Directory / A-Z |
The Local Directory is a free feature with the Silver Package, and is a great way to organise and display clubs, societies, organisations and businesses in the local area. You can arrange the listings by user-defined categories and it is not uncommon to even charge local businesses for entry to the directory - perhaps recouping some of the cost of running the website for the Council. |
 |
| Blogs |
Blogs have been the growth phenomenon of the Internet in the last few years. You can also have a local village blog to appear on your website through a live feed if one exists |
 |
| Councillors' Private / Secure Login Area |
We can install a feature which is password-protected to only allow Councillors or the Clerk access. |
|
| Discussion Forum |
Discussion Forums are large, powerful and complex applications, but they are a great way to invite communication and interaction with the local community. However, owing to the extra work due to security issues inherent in running a successful Discussion Forum, we can only offer this feature on our Gold Packages. |
|
| Email-a-Friend |
The Email-a-Friend tool lets visitors enter up to two email addresses of their choice. A message inviting the recipients to visit your website is then sent out to these email addresses, helping to publicise your website (without you even doing anything!) |
|
| Frequently Asked Questions / Knowledgebase |
You can have a database of FAQs and answers available on your site. As with all our features, you have complete control over the updating of this section. |
|
| Games |
It can often be difficult to keep people visiting your website. That is why many large websites have something to keep people interested. Games are one of the most popular methods of keeping people returning to websites, and we have developed a host of fun games such as online hangman. You can even make it specific to your website, and include famous names from your village or area. |
|
| Homepage Ticker |
The Homepage Ticker is simple scrolling text that you can add, edit or remove yourself using the Site Admin Section. You can use it to display important notices or upcoming events. Alternatively, we can set it so that the scrolling text is actually selected headlines from your News Editor, which when clicked will take you to the full news story. |
|
| Large / Satellite Maps |
Using a Google API, we can deliver large, dynamic satellite images and maps of your local area that allows visitors to scroll around and view in incredible detail. We can also show where the Parish boundary is, or input places of local interest. |
|
| Live website Statistics |
We can provide live website statistics, or even have a PDF summary report emailed to you every month, including details such as what are the most popular pages and how people found out about your website. |
|
| Online Booking Forms |
These forms are excellent for booking village halls, fetes or other facilities and events in the local area. They are also fully customisable to include whatever information you require |
|
| Online Consultations Editor |
This feature lets you place a number of consulations for the local community, including consultation documents and summaries. Visitors can then leave their responses which will be automatically sent to the Clerk as an email. |
|
| Online Contact Form |
The Online Contact Form lets visitors complete a website form, which will then automatically generate an email which is sent to you or any email address you may designate. |
|
| Online Newsletter |
This feature lets visitors REGISTER with your website, so that when you have a new electronic newsletter to upload, you can, at the press of a button, automatically tell all the subscribers that the new newsletter is available to download from the website. |
|
| OTHER FEATURES - You tell us what you want your site to do... |
Our list of additional features is non-exhaustive. If you cannot see what you want here, please let us know, and we can build it for you as one of your additional package features - all at no extra cost! |
|
| Photo Gallery |
The Photo Gallery gives you the ability to create new galleries and upload as many photos as you want. |
|
| Planning Applications Listing Tool |
This feature lets you post details of planning applications that affect the Parish area. You can include details such as the address, the proposal, any submission dates and even direct web-links through to the local district or borough council planning portal. |
|
| Site Search Function |
Through our Google Partnership we can provide the world's most advanced site search function to your website. |
|
| Visitor Counter |
Our Homepage Visitor Counter shows the number of people who have visited your website on the homepage, and is updated live every time a new person visits the site. |
|
| Youth Section |
This section lets you communicate with the young people in your local community, by inviting them to contribute and add content to the website (at your full discretion of course!) through special news stories, images and documents. |
|
