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Body Content

This is an intro text. What is most important in the article should come first and be placed here. The intro text can also contain a short summary of the content.

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Your website Theme

Your website theme is colour coded (if a regional site) to match the GWP global map. These colour codes should be sued all the way thorugh the GWP website and not changed. However there is room for customisation, just so long as the overall GWP brand and feel is not lost.

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Collecting data using Forms

Collecting information from your users is a fundamental part of modern websites. This section discusses how to use x-Forms and when to integrate with external systems, for example the Partners Database or an e-newsletter provider.

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A Custom Newsletter Form - for an External System

To create a custom form that sends a newsletter sign up to an external system is also possible. The below example demonstrates how this can be done to Vertical Response, a company who offers not-for-profits 10,000 emails per month for free.

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Integration with the Partners Database

EpiServer is set up with some forms that communicate directly with the Partners Database and with a service that queries information back from the database. This data is used to inform us of activity in the network, provide help and asssistance (see collecting data using forms) and to show on the website our reach using maps.

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Research

Before starting to create a new site design you need to perform some research.

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Creating a new site

Creating a site, be it a microsite, regional or rethinking gwp.org should be approached methodically. This section provides some best practices and some very basic tools to help you through this proccess.

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Content Audit of your Existing Site

(1) Assemble a library of all your key documents

(2) A report containing a list of all important documents and pages people link to on your current site

(3) Create a keyword report so you know what search terms people are using to find you