Feature List

  • Free
    • Free hosting
    • Free sub-domain name - www.yourname.makessense.co.uk or www.yourname.veggroup.org
    • Free support (email and telephone)
  • Places
    • Restaurants, stores and accommodation reviews with support for mini reviews by your users.
    • Spam protected online forms for suggesting of places to add to your site.
    • Automatic linking to Google maps by postcode.
    • Automatic links to other places in the same town.
    • Integration with fourth coming events at restaurants
    • Automatic creation of area maps in google maps .
  • Events
    • Easy creation of events.
    • Spam protected online forms for suggesting the listing of events on your site.
    • Easy to read event calendar with visual alarms.
    • The support of event 'contacts', to encourage others to share the running of your events.
    • Automatic aging of events, so old events show no contact details.
    • Links to automatically add events to your view' PC calendars.
    • Link to an "cut and paste" version of event, that is ideal for emailing.
    • Events RSS feed.
  • News
    • Simple to use news facility for your front page or your dedicated news page.
    • News editors desk to prioritize news stories.
    • Categories your stories you want.
    • Automatically makes your events into news stories.
    • Automatic creation of an RSS feed of your most recent news stories and events.
  • Recipes (new)
    • Your own recipe database.
  • Articles
    • Simple to use articles facility to allow you to extend content beyond what LVW directly supports.
  • Navigation Menu
    • Easy to add completely news sections to your site that LVW does not directly support.
  • High Google ratings
    • All LVW sites automatically link to other LVW sites giving your site a real kick start in Google's eyes.
  • Images
    • Simple image management system without using ftp.
    • Built-in image resizing and size templating.
    • Image usage, where you can find out where an image is used on your site to gage the impact of changes.
    • Catalog your images with keywords for easy searching.
    • Gallery creator - use LVW galleries or link to others such as Flickr
  • FAQ
    • FAQ creator
  • Forums
    • Link to your existing forum of news group.
  • Downloads - sharing documents
    • LVW can handle your newsletters downloads etc.
    • Downloads are categorised in the way you want.
  • Members
    • Users can become members of your site and access to private content.
    • Place your members into email distribution lists.
  • Private area
    • Create private areas that only your members can access.
  • Links
    • Simple link creation and categorisations.
    • Automatic links to other LVW sites to increase you Google rating.
  • Customisation of section descriptions
    • Your home page.
    • The event overviews.
    • About us.
    • Contact us.
  • Contact Details
    • The management of your contact details.
    • The management of event organiser contact details along with portraits.
  • Skins
    • Extensive facilities to customise your site's appearance with all the power of CSS.
    • Multiple themes allow you to have special temporary themes for important events, such as National Vegetarian Day or festive holidays.
  • Configuration
    • All configuration through web based forms - no ftp.
    • Configure your site from any PC.
    • Free technical support, including by phone.
    • Error checking
    • On-line help.
    • The support for multiple users to maintain of one site.
    • No technical skills required.
    • Site keywords to aid web search engines.
    • Full access to site statistics.
    • LVW produces XHTML and is completely CSS styled.

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