Website features

Our websites are feature-based. Each feature adds a specific set of functionality to the website and can be turned on or off based on client requirements.

Standard features

These standard features are included in all U7 websites. Only the core is required, all other features are optional.

Core
The core U7 foundation for all websites, includes the following sub-features:

Website admin toolkit
Contact form
Pre-header links
Header links
Primary links with drop-down menus
Footer links
Revision tracking
Movable custom and system blocks
Rich-text editor with video embedding and inline image captions
Automatic and manual image cropping
Scheduled publishing
Taxonomy management
Content access control
User management with role delegation
Banners on individual posts
Spam protection on forms
Site map
Website analytics
Weekly backups

Audio
Ability to post audio MP3 files to form a playlist or a podcast on the site.

Blogging
Ability to post blogs and allow multiple bloggers.

Events and calendar
Ability to post events to a calendar.

Event signups
Ability for users to signup to events and site admin to manage signups.

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Ability to a publish frequently asked questions page.

Home page mashup
A flexible home page that features selected posts from the website. Various layouts, slideshow formats, highlight box designs, and thumbnail list styles can be chosen from.

Image gallery
Ability to post image albums into an image gallery.

Informational pages
Ability to post informational pages.

Keyword tags
Keyword tagging for all content types with a site-wide tag cloud.

Locations
Ability to publish office locations with office hours, address, and an integrated Google Map.

News stories
The ability to post stories such as news, announcements, or articles.

PayPal products
Ability to publish and list products sold through PayPal.

Polls
Ability to post polls.

Print-friendly
Adds print-friendly links to each node using the printfriendly.com service

RSS feed
Ability to publish any post on the website to an RSS feed.

Search this site
A search capability for the site's published content.

SEO readiness
A package of modules and technical functionality for search engine optimization.

Share this post
Ability for your visitors to share content by e-mail or with popular social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google Plus, and more.

Splash page
Ability to make a splash page appear on the home page for site visitors.

Testimonials
Ability to post testimonials.

Videos
Ability to post third-party videos.

Webforms
Ability to post webforms for surveys, questionnaires, and registration forms.

Premium features

All U7 websites comes fully equiped with our standard features above that work out-of-the-box. We strive to build all our features in this fashion as this helps reduce the setup time of each website, augments the power of the website, and reduces the price you pay. Features that require unique customizations to be applied during activation are available at a premium based on the level of effort required (small, medium, or large).

Small

Event signup with PayPal payments
Ability to make payments via PayPal on event signups.

Feedburner RSS tracking
Wrap your RSS feeds with Feedburner for more subscriber control

Flag as inappropriate
Ability for users to flag inappropriate blog posts or comments to site admins.

Stay connected
Ability to publish links to your social media sites.

Twitter integration
Ability to sign in with a Twitter account.

Twitter posting
Automatically post your content to Twitter

Medium

Facebook integration
Ability for users to login to the site with their Facebook account with integrated Facebook gadgets such as popular posts, recent comments, and more.

Mailing list manager
Ability for users to sign up to mailing lists by providing an e-mail address.

Mobile-friendly
Make your website adapt to mobile devices, by resizing, re-ordering, and hiding certain items on your site rendering it more user-friendly on varying device sizes.

Newsletters
Ability to post and send newsletters built on Simplenews

User membership
Ability for users to create accounts, login to the website, and manage their account profile.

Large

Bilingualism
Ability to post both English and French content to your website and to provide a fully bilingual interface to your site visitors.

Non-profit client relationship management (CRM)
A constituent relationship manager designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups to help manage cases, donors, events, and to signup members.

Paid memberships
Ability for charge users for access to premium content on a recurring basis.

Salesforce.com integration
Integrate Salesforce.com into your website allowing your site to synchronize your data into Salesforce accounts, contacts, campaigns, and opportunities.

Shopping cart
A fully functional e-commerce shopping cart system.

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