WebXite Design is in a unique position to assist the community and charity sector with their website development. Our chief web designer, David Draper, has 6 years experience working in the community sector for a national charity and in recent years he has continued his involvement in the community through roles of chairman of a community pre-school, primary school governor and committee member of a local performance arts organisation.

This gives us a special insight into the requirements of the community and charity sector. In particular, we pay special attention to matters of child protection; a subject of special importance for the development of any website.

Community organisations can often benefit hugely from the development of a CMS based website as it can offer many sophistcated features ideally suited to the community sector. These include:

• User registration
• Newsletter subscription
• Easy to add new items of news from any computer with internet access. People in your organisation can be given special access to contribute articles to the website.
• Private pages for registered users only (very useful when you wish to include information or photographs not for public viewing)
• Forum - online discussion board, which can be restricted to members only
• Newsfeeds from related websites
• Polls - set up your own polls for members to vote online
• Comprehensive contacts function 
• Downloads area for policy documents, minutes and proformas
• Online Events calendar - easy to update via the website.

Using the latest award winning CMS software, WebXite Design can deliver a fully featured community portal website at surprisingly reasonable cost. The difference it could bring to your organisation is remarkable.