Tribute Media offers a ton of useful and sophisticated features in even our most basic websites. And when you need more advanced functionality for your website to help you reach your goals, we can build additional features to help with that too. While, by no means, an exhaustive list, here are some of the most common website features we build for clients. Your web strategist can make recommendations and advise you on what features might help you get the most from your web presence.
Careers Page & Job Listing
Includes:
- Careers landing page
- Job description page(s)
- Application submission form
- First Name
- Last Name
- Phone
- Job Applying For
- Attached resume or application
- Additional notes/message
- Thank you for your submission page
A careers page is a basic designed page with basic information about your company. You have the ability to list job openings. Each job opening is a link that opens to a new page with the job description and an option to send a resume. You will easily be able to add, remove and unpublish job descriptions at any time.
CAREERS PAGE & THIRD-PARTY JOB LISTING INTEGRATION
Includes:
- Careers landing page
- Themed form (when possible) or search feature pointing to third-party job listing site
Possible Upgrades (Advanced Career):
- Advanced design for the landing page and/or the individual job postings pages allowing for a more designed view to possibly include:
- Hero banner
- Designed sections
- Advanced filters to search for jobs
- Advanced form for collection more information on submission
- Online job application form
Commerce
BASIC
Your website will be set up to have the ability to accept payments through a third-party solution such as PayPal or Authorize.net. You will have the ability to add products by inputting the code generated by PayPal or Authorize.net into your site. You will be responsible for loading products or creating the code for the buy it now buttons. This is perfect for a site with a handful of products available. Your site will not include a view of products (unless you manually create it) or a shopping cart, but instead will link to your third party provider, e.g. PayPal. This simple ecommerce includes one hour of basic training. If you choose to include the catalog option, you will be able to have the elements of the catalog in addition to these commerce options.
ADVANCED CART SETUP (Drupal commerce)
This add-on to commerce basic will be set up to have the ability to accept payments through a third-party solution such as PayPal or Authorize.net. You will have the ability to add products by inputting the code generated by PayPal or Authorize.net into your site. You will be responsible for loading products or creating the code for the buy it now buttons. This is perfect for a site with a specific use case of products available. Your site will not include a view of products or a shopping cart, but instead will link to your third party provider, e.g. PayPal. This simple ecommerce plus advanced cart setup includes one hour of basic training.
SHOPIFY INTEGRATION
This add-on to commerce basic will allow your website store to look like it’s part of your website and will have the ability to accept payments through integration with Shopify and its payment solutions. Included with this option is a basic catalog view of products themed to match the layout of your website. Your customers will have the ability to login to your website and see their order history and order status if applicable. We will load up to ten (10) products at no additional charge. Additional product data entry will be billed at our standard hourly rate. This commerce feature comes with one hour of basic training and one hour of shopping cart administration training. This option requires a separate hosting fee with Shopify.
SHOPIFY THEME
This add-on to the commerce basic will allow your Shopify store to look like it’s part of your website and will have the ability to accept payments through Shopify, PayPal, Google Checkout, or Authorize.net and integrated with Shopify or Drupal Commerce. Included with this option is a basic catalog view of products themed to match the layout of your website. Your customers will have the ability to login to your website and see their order history and order status if applicable. We will load up to ten (10) products at no additional charge. Additional product data entry will be billed at our standard hourly rate. This ecommerce feature comes with one hour of basic training and one hour of shopping cart administration training. This option requires a separate hosting fee with Shopify.
Documentation
Your website comes with significant features. We have made every effort to make it easy for you to access these features. But, we know that you can't be expected to completely understand them without some reference. So, we have created some very helpful documentation. While your documentation on your website will match your website set up, you can see the sample of it on this website.
- Typography & Colors
Your brand is presented best when you have brand rules that are easy to follow. This page shows all the key brand rules for your site including font and color usage. There are a number of videos to guide you through the management of these rules. - Content & Block Types
Content types and blocks types are the foundations of your new website. Content types provide pages and block types allow for additional elements to be added around that content. This page will show you how they all work. - Iconography
We have created a library of nearly 1,000 icons you can use throughout your website. This library also includes a couple of videos for how you can use icons in links and buttons. - Block Regions
Regions are the areas on your website were content and blocks live. Having an understanding of how they work together to make a webpage will be helpful for you to design new pages or enhance existing pages.
Employee / Member Directory
Grid View, Directory View or List View This employee/member directory allows for you to feature your employees/members in a well designed landing page. You'll be able to add your employees/members to a group that has an advanced profile. They can use any of the following fields for their profiles- Name, Company, Title, Photo, Social Links, Website, Bio, Contact Info.
Each field is optional and each user can choose to include the fields he/she wants to include.
In addition to these fields, advanced search options can be added to the top of the grid view, directory view, or list view .
- Username (autocomplete)
- Company Name
- Title
By default, the directory is sorted alphabetically by user name but we can add a sort for the following fields
- User name (default)
- Company Name
- Title
- Custom Sort Field
Event Calendar - Graphical View
Includes:
- Traditional view of calendar
- An event list view
- Detail page
An event calendar will allow your website to advertise upcoming events for your organization. With this event calendar, you’ll be able to add events at any time with ease. You’ll have an upcoming events page and an events archive page. The upcoming events page will show all the events in the future with the event next event at the top of the page with those furthest out toward the bottom. The events archive page will show past events with the most recent event at the top.
You’ll also have a sidebar element programmed on to your site. This sidebar will be a block that shows the next upcoming event with a link to view all events.
You will have a graphical representation of the calendar that is designed to match your site. This is the traditional way a calendar is shown.
Event Calendar - Text View
Includes:
- Event list view
- Detail page
An event calendar will allow your website to advertise upcoming events for your organization. With this event calendar, you’ll be able to add events at any time with ease. You’ll have an upcoming events page and an events archive page. The upcoming events page will show all the events in the future with the event next event at the top of the page with those furthest out toward the bottom. The events archive page will show past events with the most recent event at the top.
You’ll also have a sidebar element programmed on to your site. This sidebar will be a block that shows the next upcoming event with a link to view all events.
Both the events page and the events archive page will be text representations of the events. No calendar style view will be available but can be purchased at an additional cost.
FAQs (advanced)
Includes:
- List view (in expandable accordion)
- Detail page
You can choose to use the magic accordion for a basic FAQ section. However, in some cases, you'll need something more advanced.
Frequently Asked Question module (FAQ) allows you to create a page with questions and answers presented in a simple fashion to your users. These FAQs can be categorized or all presented in one list. When presented with the FAQ page, users will be able to click on the question and the answers will appear in an accordion fashion.
Each FAQ is treated as an individual entry which allows the administrator to quickly edit individual FAQs rather than having to learn complicated code to manage each FAQ. This allows your site to have an unlimited number of questions with their corresponding answer. This FAQ feature includes up to 3 different categories and we'll add up to 10 questions and answers for you. Each category will be on it's own page. During your training, we can teach you how to add additional FAQs or you can have us enter additional FAQs for an additional fee.
Forms (Custom)
Forms are required to capture any data from your website visitor. It could be something as simple as a contact form (like on this demo site here). These forms can also be extremely complicated and multiple pages for capturing any type of data you might want.
These forms can be placed on a landing page or in a sidebar block.
If you have a form, you can probably build it anyway you want and place it anywhere you want. If you are curious on how to build forms on your page, you can watch the video in our documentation (look in the landing page section).
Gallery - Photo
Includes:
- A thumbnail list page
- Pages showing your gallery grouped by events (as an album) or category.
- Sidebar or full-width blocks showing gallery photos.
Your new website's photo gallery will use the latest technologies to display your photos in an easy-to-use fashion. Using the latest technologies means that your photo gallery will work flawlessly in all modern browsers without any plugins or additional downloads. Upon visiting your gallery page, you will see a thumbnail picture representing each individual gallery of photos you have available in a tabular view.
You will have the ability add unlimited photos and create new galleries on the fly. Each photo will be automatically cropped, sized, and have a thumbnail created. Optionally, we can set a maximum size for the full size photos to display. This can help keep file sizes and downloading to a minimum. We will upload the first 10 photos and you will be trained to load any additional. If you would like additional images loaded, we can quote you for data entry costs.
Possible Upgrade:
- Add a video version of the gallery to display videos hosted at Vimeo or YouTube
Gallery - Projects
Includes:
- A thumbnail list page
- Pages showing your gallery grouped by category.
Your new website's project gallery will use the latest technologies to display your photos in an easy-to-use fashion. Using the latest technologies means that your project gallery will work flawlessly in all modern browsers without any plugins or additional downloads. Upon visiting your gallery page, you will see a thumbnail picture representing each individual gallery of projects you have available in a tabular view.
You will have the ability add unlimited photos and create new galleries on the fly. Each photo will be automatically cropped, sized, and have a thumbnail created. Optionally, we can set a maximum size for the full size photos to display. This can help keep file sizes and downloading to a minimum. We will upload the first 10 photos and you will be trained to load any additional. If you would like additional images loaded, we can quote you for data entry costs.
Hero Banner
Your hero banner can be used to set the main message for any page on your website. Typically, that hero banner is used on the home page or key pillar pages. However, you can add it to the top of any page you want. You can look at the home page of this page to see the hero banner in action.
There are a variety of ways that your hero banner can be presented. It can live in only the hero banner region or it can also span the header as well. You can see more description and even samples for the hero banner in our documentation here.
Possible Upgrades:
- Video background
- Slideshow
Landing Pages
A landing page can be used for something as simple as a contact page or can be the core of your digital marketing campaign. You can redirect people to a custom thank you page when they have completed the form. The top of a landing page functions exactly like a basic page, with a few added options. The most important option is to add a webform. You'll need to create the webform before you can add it to the page. The other two options are: (1) Hide the navigation. This is useful if you want the site visitor to focus on your desired action (filling out the form). (2) Have the form stacked or side-by-side.
Our documentation shows a sample here but can also be used like our contact page here.
Magic Accordion
In most cases where tabbed views for a web page are created, it's been traditionally difficult to have an effective view for both desktop and mobile environments. The magic accordion is a great solution.
This magic accordion allows you to have a tabbed/accordion design in any region on your site. Usually works best in a wide area like in your content area or a full-width region. You can have it appear as a tabbed view on desktops and an accordion view on mobile devices. You can also have this block display as an accordion view for all devices.
Our documentation shows a sample version of it here. There are many ways that you can apply this. One way that we've had clients apply it is as a basic FAQ module.
Possible Upgrade:
You can also ask us to provide some advanced design like our client Nexus has done.
Member Access & Member-Only ContenT
Refers to a section of the site design that is meant to be accessed only by website users who have been given login credentials. They can access pages, files, documents, content, images, video, and more. Includes a custom view for and pleasant User Experience for your members. You will be able to post content for members that you give permission to and they will be able to see this information in an easy to view format.
The member access role gives you the ability to create user accounts for member-only access content on your website. As you create new user accounts, you'll be able to assign them to a role that will allow them to see the member only content. When you create member-only content, they'll see the content on their own user account page. It can be organized similar to a blog with the newest content at the top or it can be organized in blocks of categories. Included in this price is a basic designed landing page for members as they login and covers most needs for this feature.
Possible Upgrades:
- Additional groupings or permission sets
- Intranet Dashboard
- Content strategy and support
Overlay Menu
Mega menus are menu options that provide more information in the drop down than normal drop down menu. You might include images or columns for your menu content. The challenge, however, is that mega menus typically are difficult to manage and organize. In addition, the management of the mobile menu is often separate and therefore more complicated.
Our answer is the overlay menu. It provides an opportunity to have a more readily managed menu for desktops that automatically adjusts for mobile devices.
When you go to one of our websites that has the overlay menu installed, you'll see the menu button in the top right rather than the traditional horizontal menu structure.
Testimonials
Testimonials allow you to showcase how great you are based on what your customers say about you. You can choose to have a simple page of testimonials. A simple page would require you to edit that page each time you receive a new testimonial and would not provide a sidebar with rotating testimonials. This testimonials feature automatically formats a page with all your testimonials and allows you to have them in a rotating sidebar block that shows up throughout your website.