Extras available from w3 web designs
As well as the affordable design of your website, there are a number of additions which can be added to the site now or at a later stage. Here are a few examples of what can be added to most or our website designs:
- W3 Easy Mail (Automated Newsletter)
- Content Management System (CMS)
- Flash Animation
- Image Gallery
- Online Booking System
- Availability System
W3 Easy Mail (Automated Newsletter System)
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How often have you wanted to let your clients know about your latest offers, news and more?
With the W3 Easy Mail add on, visitors need only enter their email address in a special form to sign up to your site's Newsletters.
Core:
- Allow clients to subscribe & unsubscribe to your newsletter.
- Automatically sends & requests a conformation sign up email.
- Allow clients to unsubscribe direct from the newsletter
- Allow clients to change what they are subscribed to.
- Allow clients to permanently unsubscribe. Allows clients to view all archived newsletters.
- Allow clients to forward a newsletter to a friend.
- Clients can view Newsletters in their browser in case their email client won't show the email.
- Add unlimited newsletter sections
- Allow clients to receive the newsletter they want or signup for all of them
- Checks for duplicate email addresses.
- Helps keep your company name in the mind of your clients.
- Sends HTML email Complete with HTML editor for ease of use.
- Tracking link in newsletter emails
- A full stats package - How many emails where viewed
- Send in batches to prevent spam and server issues
- Send your newsletters from any email address you wish.
- Block clients from signing up
- Prevents blocked users from being imported
- Adding a user to the blocked list removes them from the subscribed list automatically
- Use a small signup box in your site design
- Run test run of newsletters and show emails addresses and batch they'd be sent in
- Fault tracking code in newsletters
- Admin receives an email if someone un subscribes.
- Re written terms / removal and footer for spam compliance
- Complete with email verify.
- Customisable wording for emails, headers, footers and all client side pages
- Clients un subscribing are automatically removed from the database
Security & compliance:
- Clients must confirm the email address before signing up
- Clients must enter an automatic and random security code.
- On sign up a client must click a special confirmation link to be added
- Any client added to the block list cannot be added to the subscribed section
- Admin cannot send a newsletter out without confirming their intentions
- All newsletters contain a removal process.
- Standard unsubscribe
- Permanently unsubscribe
Although some features have been added to meet EU requirements they all aid spam prevention from either the site administrator or spam bots.
Admin;
- Allows the admin to view how many clients have signed up.
- View all the email addresses of those that have signed up.
- Set up to three default / master newsletter templates.
- View when a client signed up with you.
- Plan ahead and set up unlimited newsletters. (and we mean unlimited) Use unlimited designs.
- See when you last sent a newsletter out.
- Add email addresses manually
- Delete clients from the system
- Send a demo of the email to yourself.
- See which client is signed up to which section
- Assign newsletters to a particular section or the all section.
- Admin can change the section a client has subscribed to
- Assign imports to a section
- Deleting a section updates subscribers & checks if in use with a newsletter
- Search through your subscribers list
- Highlighted word search
- Shows how many emails were sent in case of an error
- Send signup confirmation reminders Allows newsletters to be re - sent
- Set a welcome message for new sign ups.
- Turn off Archive on client sign up page
- Sending newsletters out requires a confirmation
Reports;
- Who viewed a newsletter
- When they did
- What newsletter it was
- Shows the ip address
- A whois look up so you can see more information about the user.
- The date they read a newsletter.
- Who had a newsletter forwarded to them
W3 Easy Manager (Content Management System)
The W3 Easy Manager will allow you to easily manage and update your website content. Based on a word document it will allow you to do the following:
- Add new or remove old images
- Edit or add new text
- Add / Edit Tables
- Upload PDF / Word Documents for Download
- Set Authorised users for different pages of the website
- Create internal & external links
Once added to your website, you will receive a handy powerpoint "how to" file, which shows you how to use your LDS Web Manager.
If this is something which you need on your website, contact us now on 020 222 30 60 6
Flash Animation
Flash animation is about moving images and graphics on your website. As it is quite complex, it is a product which we need to quote on based on client requirements. To see examples of some of our work, please click the Flash website category within our portfolio.
Image gallery
Show off your business through an online gallery, for B & B’s, Hotels, Restaurants, Adventure Farms, this is an ideal way to show off your business in an easy way!
Online Booking System
We have an online booking system which will automatically update the availability on your website as and when a booking is made. You can accept online payments and through the administration area, you can ad new images and update the content on a regular basis. To see an example of this system, please view Pendine Waterfront for an example.
Availability System
If a complete Online Booking System is too advanced for your requirements, we have a small availability system, which will allow you to show users your current availability, please see Pembrokeshire Courtyard Cottages
Alternatively, you can use the W3 Easy Manager which will also allow you to change the other pages on your website – 2 for the price of one.