Features

The Website Toolkit provides features, flexibility and functionality packaged to help GEF IW Projects and Partners build better websites. The Website Toolkit provides user-friendly features, flexibility and offers extensive functionality to help you build better websites. The Toolkit allows you to create and build robust and sophisticated websites using easy to use and familiar tools. A vast variety of designs (themes) and products make it easier to design and develop the type of site that you require, while enhanced publishing, workflow features and other options help you get your web pages online quickly and easily.

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Some key features of the Website Toolkit

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Simplified web page editing

The Toolkit includes a user-friendly and powerful editing tool which enables you to readily format text, and insert images and hyperlinks. It is similar to using Microsoft Word or other word processors.

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Multilingual capabilities

Available in over 35 languages, the Toolkit provides multilingual content management. It supports Chinese, Japanese, and right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

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Handle a wide range of content and functions

The Toolkit can handle a variety of content types including text pages, documents, files, images, videos, survey and GIS data. Hundreds of add-on products are also available, including web forums, issue trackers, blogs and various online collaboration tools.

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Syndicate your website content

By syndicating your web content using RSS feeds, you can readily share information with other users. By using the RSS feed generated by your website, users can keep up-to-date with what is new on your site. It is also possible to use RSS feeds to integrate your website content into another website using a feed reader/aggregator and vice versa.

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Integrated Site Map

New content is automatically inserted into your website's Site Map. The Toolkit's Site Map is designed to make it easier for visitors to navigate your website.

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Manage site users and group

Add, edit, and manage access rights of users and groups in the website. Also allows decentralized posting of information and remote website publishing.

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Simple and advanced searching and impressive search engine visibility

All content is instantly searchable, including Word documents and PDF files. Plone's LiveSearch feature also facilitates an instant search. Websites based on the Toolkit are cross-browser friendly and sites based on this software are typically ranked well in Google search results.

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Fully supported by UNEP/IW:LEARN

UNEP/IW:LEARN provides support to all projects who wish to utilise the Website Toolkit as their web solution. UNEP/IW:LEARN provides free website hosting and design and development services to projects adopting the Toolkit.

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