Features News Stories Publish news stories about your community for visitors to read to a dedicated...
Features
News Stories
Publish news stories about your community for visitors to read to a dedicated news page. The latest news stories are automatically published to the home page and rotated when new stories are added. Visitors can email stories to their friends via a convenient email form, allowing your content to spread outside the community. An RSS feed is available, allowing visitors to receive your content directly to their feed reader. News stories can be created and managed via Icetea’s easy to use control panel.
Publish Stories from the Control Panel
Upload any JPEG image to accompany the story (images are automatically resized)
Manage Stories from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete)
Stories Published via RSS
Print a story or Email to a friend
Video
Create your own online TV channel via a dedicated streaming video section. Video has become very popular in recent years and is a great way to communicate with your community. Icetea can create high quality web optimised versions of your video from any format and upload it to your website.
Dedicated Video Section
High Quality Video Compression services provided by Icetea
Delivered across multiple platforms via Flash Video Player
Website Links
There is no shortage of excellent websites out there with relevant information to your community. Easily create and manage links via the Icetea control panel.
Publish Website Links to a web links section
Organise links via Link Categories
Manage Links from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete, Categories)
Downloads
Make files such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and Plain Text available for download from your website. Files can be easily uploaded and managed via the Icetea control panel. Choose to make files available for public download or to registered members only.
Upload files via the Control Panel
Downloads can be Public or Private
Manage Downloads from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete, Categories)
Photo Ticker
The iconic photo ticker in the header area of the home page immediately attracts your visitors attention and provides a great way to highlight what is going on in your community. Uploading new photos is made easy via the Icetea Control Panel, all images are automatically resized and optimised, add a text caption and a link to a web page.
Web 2.0 JavaScript Photo Slide Show (compatible with all modern browsers*)
Photos Automatically Scaled to the correct size
Each photo can be given a Text Caption and Link
Manage from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete, Order)
Rotating Banners
The home page sidebar contains a number of colourful rotating banners that can be used to highlight different area of your website. Icetea will design bespoke professional looking banners for your specific website.
Two Different Sizes
Rotates using beautiful sliding and fade effects
Professionally designed by Icetea
Member Blogs
A community should be all about members getting involved, contributing and building a great web presence. Each member can be given their own blog, with a friendly address, so that they can contribute content themselves. Blogs can be setup at the flick of a switch from the Icetea control panel and all pages are optimised for search engines.
Give Each Member a Blog
Members can post content to their blogs
Rich text editor for advanced formatting of posts
Search Engine Optimised pages and Friendly URLs e.g. www.domain.com/blog/blogname
Easy Setup via the Control Panel
RSS Feeds
RSS is a method of syndicating your websites content across the Internet directly to an individual, in much the same way that email works. News, events and blogs have their own RSS feeds which your visitors can subscribe to, enabling them to receive new content as it is published to the website.
The latest Web Technology supported
News and event RSS feeds
Each blog has its own RSS feed
Cross platform content syndication
Map
Each website has its own interactive map which can be used to show the location of your community. Maps are powered by the latest Google technology.
Interactive Map of your Location
Powered by Google Technology
Events and Calendar
Publish your communities events to your own events list and interactive JavaScript calendar. Members can post their own events, which are published immediately to the website and via RSS. Icetea’s sophisticated Web 2.0 technology allows your events to be published automatically to a Google Calendar which your members can subscribe to and so have your communities events on their own personal calendar.
Sophisticated Web 2.0 Technology
Manage Events from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete)
Events Automatically Published to your communities Google Calendar
Members can subscribe to your Community Calendar
Profile Page
Each member has their own profile page which they can customise with information about themselves including: name, location, home page, blog link, about me, interests, favourite website links. A personal photo or avatar can be uploaded and appears on their profile.
Member Profile Page
Each member can customise their page
Upload a personal photo or avatar
Personal photos must be approved by the Administrator
Members can choose to remain Private and not have a profile page
Photo Gallery
A picture speaks a thousand words. With your own online gallery you can upload community photos from the easy to use Icetea control panel. Organise photos into categories and upload high quality photos which are automatically resized and optimised for the web. Photos are represented as convenient slide shows for your visitors to browse.
Upload Photos via the Control Panel
Manage Photo from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete)
Automatic Resizing and Thumbnail Creation
Organise into Categories
Browse Photos as Slide Shows
Clubs
Many communities have local clubs and groups that your members would be interested in. The clubs feature is an online directory that can be browsed by visitors. Members submit their club’s details via a simple online form and each month a club can be promoted by making them “Club of the Month” for a particular calendar month.
Online Directory of local Clubs
Members can Submit their Club
Manage Events from the Control Panel (Edit, Delete, Order)
Club of the Month Feature
Resources
Many communities own “resources” that can be used by members such as mini buses, halls and equipment. The resources feature allows you to accept bookings from members for these shares resources online. Each booking is published to public Google Calendar so that you can see which resources are being used by which members at any one time and the system automatically prevents double bookings.
Online List of Free and Paid Resources
Members can Book Resources
System Prevents double bookings
Bookings published to a public Google Calendar
Manage Resources from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete, Categories)
Contact Page and Email Form
Each website has a contact page with your communities contact details, e.g. postal address, telephone, fax, email and a link to a map. Each contact page has its own mail form and is fully editable via Icetea’s Edit Pages technology.
Editable Contact Page
Contact Form sent via Email
Anti-SPAM Technology
Member Sign Up & Login
You have complete control over who joins your community, choose to allow everyone or screen each application that comes through your community sign up form. Once approved members can login and access a members only area with advanced features.
Membership Sign Up Form
Approve Each Member with automatic Confirmation Emails sent out
Member Login form with Remember Me function
Automatic Forgotten Password Retrieval
Ban Members from your community
Manage Members from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete, Username, Password, Photo, Blog, Communication Preferences)
Mailing List
When signing up members can choose whether they wish to receive emails sent from the community. Those who accept emails are subscribed to a mailing list which can be managed via the control panel. Emails are automatically de-duplicated and can be downloaded via the control panel for you to send out newsletters and email communication to your members. Icetea has its own solution for sending mailing lists.
Manage List from the Control Panel (Add, Edit, Delete)
Members can set their communications preferences
Download emails for sending
Use Icetea’s excellent email marketing solution
Members List
The members list presents a complete list of all your communities members organised by surname and can be easily searched. Members can find other members and communicate with them by sending emails via the built in communications system.
Complete List of Members
Search for Members
Email a Member via built in Communications System
Email form uses CAPTCHA security to prevent spamming
All Emails include a promotional link
Member Friends
Members can build a list of their friends in the community and email them all at once using the built in communications system.
Mark a Member as a Friend with the click of a button
Email all the people on a members Friends List
Prevent specific members from emailing you
Team Page
Build a page that lists all of your communities important team members with links to their individual profile pages. The team page can be organised using the Icetea control panel.
Easily build a community Team page
Uses member photos
Manage from the Control Panel (Add, Order, Delete)
Edit Page Content
Icetea’s Edit Pages technology allows you to edit the content of your websites pages from an easy to use and familiar word processing style interface. Edit and format text, upload and resize images and link to other websites and all your changes are backed up automatically. Create new pages and manage your websites content via Icetea’s easy to use control panel.
Edit Page Content from your web browser
Create new web pages
Upload images via the media manager
Easy to use and familiar word processing interface
Benefits
Build an Online Community
The web is an interactive medium, your website is a great opportunity to interact with your visitors and build an online community of people interested in your subject matter. Allow visitors to register as members so they can access exclusive features which can allow them to participate in the community and contribute content to the website. Features such as RSS feeds, email communication and calendar subscriptions allow for content distribution and interactive design elements such as maps, rich text editors and JavaScript effects turn your website into an interactive as well as informative web presence.
Professional Web 2.0 Design
Icetea designs each community website to stand out form the crowd using the very highest quality Web 2.0 inspired graphic design and iconography. Apart from looking good our software has been designed with the user in mind, we have made even the complicated stuff dead easy to use so you can spend time doing the important things.
Control Everything
Our community system puts you in complete control of your website via our technologically advanced Control Panel software. There is no need to pay a website designer to do the simplest of changes, instead you can manage, organise, customise and control every aspect of your community website. It’s easy to use and you can do it from any Internet connected computer in the world!
Latest Web 2.0 Technology
Icetea has embraced the latest web technologies and services to deliver all the features you and your visitors would expect of a modern website. RSS feeds for content syndication, interactive JavaScript including maps, rich text editors and date selection calenders, animation effects including slideshows, rotating banners and drop down menus, AJAX data exchange, integration with popular web services including Google’s excellent calendar and mapping services. Together with the high quality programming and design demanded of an outstanding Web 2.0 application.
Easy To Use
There is no point in having a website with all the bells and whistles if you can’t use them. At Icetea we have gone out of our way to make things as easy and simple to use as possible. Tick a box here, click a button there our systems are designed for normal human beings not tech savvy whizz kids and if you ever need any help our support team is waiting to answer any questions you might have.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Search Engine Optimisation is the process of making your websites content easily readable by the major search engines like Yahoo and Google. Icetea’s Community System takes care of SEO for you, so you can create your content safe in the knowledge that is will be made available for the rest of the world to see.
* The Icetea Community is designed to work with all modern web browsers, including: Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3, Safari, Google Chrome, Opera
