Top features of Faithwebsites Complete - all included!
No Specialized Training Required
Simple website management without the need to know web site design, programming or obtain costly training! Create pages, add and edit content to your site all with our easy to use Navigation Builder and tool set. See our help resources and ongoing education for more details.
Free Customer Support
Yes, that's right - our premiere customer support is included at no additional cost, no limits - just free and unlimited support tickets. We've even built in your own Support Center where you create tickets and search archived tickets as your own personal knowledge base!
Help Resources and Ongoing Education
We mean what we say about "no training required", but if you are going to make your website a success, you need to take some time and learn about our CMS application, tool usage and more. That's why we have an ever-growing help manual online, along with a growing library of topic-specific training videos. But that's not all; check out the FWS Blog and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. All of these are full of tips, helpful resources and ideas, how-to's about our tools and even links to other online Christian ministry social media and website resources.
Unlimited Administrators & Permission / Role Definition
Set up any number of administrators and assign them to specific sections, pages and/or database / tools within the site. With our unlimited site administrators combined with our easy to use yet highly specific permission controls, you can setup access for any number of users and have them maintain their own content, events and more! Perfect for ministry leaders, event volunteers, teachers and more.
Secured Pages (User Side Permissions)
Create a section (or page) of your site that are secured from public viewing. Provide access to one or a group (such as faculty, congregation members, parents, alumni or some other group) to these pages via our User Side Permissions menu. Our password accessed page permissions will provide you with the ability to easily communicate, share documents, collect information and more all within your defined group of individuals.
Automatic, Continual Upgrades
We're always adding new features - and this is at no additional cost to you. Plus, since FWS Complete is a hosted service, these upgrades and enhancements are added to your application without interruption of service or any work on your part!
Solid Hosting - Included!
No worries about where you are hosting and backing up your website. We have dedicated web servers and back-up in place, along with separate mail servers for the email functions of the website. All included in our product.
Dynamic Menu & Site Maps
A site map is among the most important foundation pieces to your website, and your navigation menu (links, or buttons) is essential to how your users navigate and perceive your website. With this much importance we made sure to build in several tools to help you with the building and presentation of these items. You can choose different types of menu options including popular "fly out" buttons. Our easy to use Navigation Builder allows for seamless building, moving and editing of your site pages, and at any time you can simply click a button to generate a ready-made and updated site-map.
Google Features Integration
These days Google has become the most used Search Engine in the world. In addition, Google offers a host of other products - most of them free for non-profits - that can help website administrators. We offer an easy integration tool with Google Analytics for all your site statistics, and other resources such as site maps. One of our added services offered is setting up a Google Gmail email account for your domain, ensuring that you have at least one email address established with your domain name.
Online Donation Tool
Simply drop the online donation tool into your designated place within your site and you are on your way to accepting payments online for a number of reasons: donations, tithes, missions, building funds, etc. Connects with PayPal and USA ePay.
Content Template Library
Have content that needs to be repeated throughout the site? What about a form or survey that needs to be on each ministry or teacher page? Create standard pages or content in our Content Template Library tool and easily copy it down to a new or existing page anywhere on the site. No more copying and pasting, double data-entry or form creation!
WYSIWYG Editing
Our built-in web based editor is one of the essential tools we provide and has user-friendly icons that help create web-standard formatting so that your pages display how you want them on all browsers. Format your content, add images, links, embed HTML code and media and more.
Photo Gallery & Slide Show tools
Add visuals to your site through several photo tools we provide. Simply upload your photos and then use the defaults or get creative in building slide shows or photo galleries. All can be done quickly while still giving you the control to manage how your images are displayed. Ease and control is at your fingertips.
Custom Form & Survey Builder
Imagine being able to build online submission forms or surveys by just creating what fields you want. Yes, it is that easy, and yet our form builder tool can also stand up to large tasks and surveys, including summarizing and tallying data. Export the data, or just portions of the data. Route submissions to one or more recipients. The list of options goes on!
Video
Enhance your website with the use of video. Integrate video from popular services such as Tangle, Vimeo, YouTubeTM, or Gospel Tube and more and embed video with our video tool.
Audio - Sermons & More
Upload audio files for sermons, devotionals, lectures, music and other purposes via our MP3 Audio Tool. Setup single files or create sermon series. A playlist is automatically created for the download convenience of your users.
Podcasts & RSS Feeds
Experience built-in syndication for all of our calendar, audio, blog, message board, etc. tools. Add your sermons to your Podcasts with a click of a button.
Prayer Request
Set up our prayer request tool on any page of your site and provide your members with a confidential and convenient way to submit prayer requests to you. Route those requests to any number of email addresses and if desired, alllow the member to choose whether to share the request on the website postings or not. Tie this tool in with our User Side Security - Password Protected pages and you have a powerful online prayer resource, yet with controlled and confidential access.
Calendars
Create, manage and display events from a central Calendar Admin. Have one central calendar or many individual calendars with the use of our category tools - all linked and integrated as you desire. Build in locations and facilities and even prevent double booking. Ministries, pastors, faculty or any group you designate can create their own calendars, and the athletics department can enjoy their own calendars complete with additional scheduling information unique to typical school sporting events. iCal and RSS feeds are automatically built for you - integrate into other applications or give your users the ability to subscribe to your calendars. Customize the display type, date range and more all with a few clicks. And, if you are using the Members Database tool, you can setup automatic weekly update emails that are linked to events in your calendar.
Members Database
This robust database can be used for one or multiple purposes. Import existing data, manually enter and/or setup a secure page for your members to add their own data - or any combination of these options. Output the database in various search and directory tools placed on any page(s) of your site, or export the data at any time. Our members database offers built-in sections for spouses and children, the ability to attach a photo and much, much more. Uses include church directories, ministry leadership groups, school family and alumni databases and more. Through the use of Groups, you can administer any number of purposes all from the same database.
Faculty Database/ Directory / Faculty (Teacher) Pages
Similar to our Members Database, our Faculty Database is complimentary for all Christian School customers and can be added free of charge to our church and ministry customers. This database not only houses faculty (teachers / administrators) directories, but the ability to have faculty create their own web pages or websites. Pages are unlimited, and faculty members have nearly all the tools that the main site administrator has (text editor, photo galleries / slide shows, interactive form/survey builder, video, audio, upload and link to documents, etc.). With the addition of an inside banner graphic, faculty members can even create a unique look for just their page(s).
Mass Email Tool
Connected to our Members Database, our Mass Email tool allows you to create and send email to a group, multiple groups, or your entire database with a few clicks!