Standard Features

All of our tools have built-in design so that they are ready to go. Add a few videos or a few dates to your calendar and the pages will look polished and ready for visitors.

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Map & Directions Page

Instant Contact Page

Every Gutensite comes with a pre-built interactive map page that dynamically displays your location. You can change location info when needed using your control panel and visitors can generate step-by-step directions.

Your site also comes with an automatic contact page that displays your address, phone, fax and e-mail as well as a contact form where visitors can send questions or comments.

 

Profiles

Testimonials

This feature displays title, bio, image, contact info and related calendars for each member. It can be used for any part of your site where you need multiple items with specific contact information such as employment opportunities or committees and groups.

Testimonials are displayed (if you choose) with a title, name, position and community.

 

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Blog

Portfolio

Blogging adds keyword rich content to your website which vastly increases your search engine rankings. Our blog feature allows you to organize multiple blogs in nested categories and to choose how many blog entries to display per page. Blogs can be associated with images, documents and media.

Portfolio images can be placed in nested categories and each portfolio piece can contain multiple-image slideshows. Slideshows can be labeled with date, location, description and a url. Slideshows with more than 3 images can be viewed also as a list.

 

News

Topical Articles

If you routinely have news to post, statistics or awards you want potential clients to know about, our news tool is a great way to do that. These articles provide more searchable content to help boost your page rankings. Old news items are automatically organized and archived in an easily searchable format.

Topical Articles work much the same as news articles. They can be associated with related articles, with slideshows, and with media as well as relevant documents. You can set up a module on your home page to automatically display excerpts from your latest articles along with date and author.

 

Media

Custom Pages

Post audio and video files, organize them in nested categories, associate them with images, other media, related documents and other related pages on the site. Detail pages can display an image, description, speaker, related downloadable pdfs and articles. Your media library comes with advanced searching capabilities including custom filters and custom fields.

Gutensite comes with a wide variety of prebuilt content, but sometimes you just need to make your own custom page. Start with a blank page, and add text, images, slideshows, multimedia, upcoming events or extra links. You can style the content with pullouts, lists and special headers using our content layout templates.

 

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Discussion Forums

Calendars

Our forums empower you to facilitate discussion among members on any topic. You can start unlimited discussions and multiple topics within each discussion. Users can create their own profiles and rate responses.

You can view events from different categories on one calendar all at once (each with its own name and color code) or link to them separately. The calendar allows for advanced repetition options and mini promo modules on your site can be setup to automatically display upcoming events on your home page or elsewhere. Choose to display events in calendar format or as a list. Visitors can print or subscribe to the church calendar.

 

Image Library

Downloadable Documents

Organize your image library in nested categories and upload multiple images from inside each feature in your control panel using our image uploader. You can batch in a series of images using an ftp site and you can create an image profile to set your own custom sizing for any image type you plan to upload often.

Documents can also be organized in nested categories. They display in a list with icons to let users immediately recognize the file type.

 

Helpful Links

Member Accounts

TOur links tool helps you create a library of resource links for your visitors to reference. They can be searched and organized into nested categories using your control panel.

Visitors can become members by making their own account on your site, which allows them to access special benefits (like email alerts, wish lists, and any resources or pages you want to limit to members only). It also allows you to gather contact information from visitors and to build a larger client or member base.

 

FAQ

Promo Modules

With our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) feature, you can educate visitors in a question/answer format. You can also group your questions together by category and related questions. This feature is great for offering technical support or highlighting basic information about your organization.

Promo Modules is a general term for small excerpts that can be placed anywhere in your site. They can be dynamically generated from your calendar, blog or news or you can create a small list of helpful links or an image linked to another place on your site. Our home page designs usually allow for one large image module and several small content modules. You can also place multiple modules in the sidebar of specific pages and sections.

 

Multiple Admin Accounts

RSS Syndication

Assign various task-based permissions to different administrators to share the work load of updating and maintaining your website.

Syndicate your News, Articles, Blogs, FAQs, and Multimedia content.

 

Site Wide Search

Communities

Allow visitors to search your site using a Google Custom Search Engine.

Create profiles of the communities you serve, with descriptions, community links, service directory, slideshow, video, maps, etc.

 
 

Custom Forms

 
 

You can create custom forms to ask your visitors for particular information you need to gather.