Easy Association Website Management

With Wild Apricot you can add a new page to your association's website in a few minutes. Simply select a desired layout, define who can access this page (general public or authorized members only) and position it in the menu. Then start typing, adding links, pictures, tables and documents where you want them.

Add as many pages as needed and move them around to organize and make your website easy to navigate.

While you are working on a page, keep it invisible until it is finished and ready for the world to see.

See more: Online Help - Adding Pages

Wild Apricot is designed so that people who are comfortable with Microsoft Word can easily update website pages. Here is what you can do with familiar word processing tools in Wild Apricot:

• Edit webpage text
• Format fonts, size, color
• Define and use standard text styles - to keep your pages uniform and your site looking clean and professional
• Align text, use bullets and numbered lists to structure webpages for easier reading
• Add pictures, documents (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PDF or anything else)
• Insert links: to other site pages, to external websites, to email addresses
• Add and format tables
• Embed 'widgets', for example YouTube videos, Flickr sideshows, PayPal storefront, PollDaddy polls, GoogleMaps - or other Javascript or HTML code snippets
• Use built-in spell checker to ensure your site looks professional

Consider yourself a tech pro? Go ahead, roll up your sleeves and dive into "raw" HTML code of the page, edit meta-tags, add Javascript and use CSS.

We have even added a safety layer - with one button click you can restore the previous page version before your last published edits.

See more: Online Help - Updating Webpages

Quickly personalize your site by adding a logo and customizing page header with your own background (or select one from hundreds we have provided)

Add pictures from your computer to your webpages. Picture can be automatically resized and a border added.

Quickly add existing Microsoft documents (e.g. Excel or Word) or any other documents (PDFs, ZIP Files) to your web pages - so that people can download them.

See more: Online Help - Adding Pictures

Wild Apricot integrates and automates all your key organizing and communication functions in one place. Here is what you can add to your website:

• Event calendar and online event registration with credit card payment
• Online member application form
• Secure member web pages (aka a private "members-only" website)
• Online member self-service tools so they can update their contact details and renew membership, pay dues
• Searchable member directory
• Online donation form
• Blog to reach out and get feedback
• Discussion forums to foster communication and collaboration in your community

All of these functions are an integral part of every Wild Apricot website.

Does your association already have a website? No worries. You can replicate the look and feel with Wild Apricot's customization tools, and then just cut and paste the text into your new website. Or incorporate information from brochures you already have on hand. (You can also import your membership records easily)

Or take your time and start slowly by using Wild Apricot for a members-only website - and keep your existing website for the general public right now. You can also keep your existing web site and add all of Wild Apricot's interactive featuers listed above using our 'widgets'!

Wild Apricot lets you to quickly embed extensions from popular websites, for example:

• Videos, for example from YouTube
• Slideshows and photoalbums - from Flickr, RockYou, PhotoBucket, BubbleShare, Picasa or any other site
• PayPal storefront for online ecommerce
• PollDaddy polls
• Google widgets - maps, spreadsheets, presentations and more

You have direct access to edit page HTML code so that you can tweak these embedded add-ons as needed

See more: Online Help - Adding Widgets

With Wild Apricot you can create secure web pages accessible only to selected groups of people.

• Entice your members to sign up for higher level of service to access premium content pages or discussion forums.
• Create pages to store industry research, best practices, members-only blog, members discussion forum and more.
• Provide a secure member directory and select what information is shown.
• Setup a secure website section for your board or volunteer committees

This can be fully automated so that new members are immediately granted access while lapsed members are excluded.

See more: Private Member Webpages (Member Intranet)