Features
Guidebooks
Help website visitors find the information they need quickly. Compile & organize questions, answers, articles, providers, and links into effective on-line guides.
Multiple Designs
Easily change the appearance of your website by selecting from several professionally-designed visual "themes".
Mobile-Friendly
Deliver content to smart-phones and tablets automatically without any additional work.
Social Media
Be social. Conveniently connect to popular social media services. Automatically post to Twitter.
Visual Editing
Easily format text, add tables, and include graphics using a simple familiar interface.
Multimedia
Embed videos and images on any page. Build and manage your own media collection.
Smart Search
Enable website visitors to conduct advanced searches using the powerful Solr search engine.
Management Dashboard
Control all aspects of your website with a powerful but simple management tool. Track content, choose components, and rearrange layouts, manage users, and more.
Technical Support
Integrated video training and on-line documentation is available. Or contact us if you need help. It's all included.
- Guidebook Topics
- Create a list of topics and organize guidebooks by topic.
- Guides Slide-show
- Auto-magically-generated slide-show showcases selected guidebooks in a visually striking format presenting a friendly entry-point for new visitors.
- Important Guides
- Showcase a list of most accessed guides. List is automatically updated so the website adapts to visitors browsing patterns.
- FAQs
- Maintain a collection of answers to commonly-asked questions. Each answer gets is own web address so you can refer or link to it from anywhere.
- Articles
- Publish long-form formatted background material with tables, graphics, videos, and attachments.
- Smart Search
- Enables visitors to search the entire site. Relevant introductory material is automatically displayed first and highlighted for visitors.
- Links Collection
- Maintain a collection of useful links with web addresses and annotations. Search filters enable visitors to find the links they need.
- Sample Forms & Letters
- Upload and organize forms and sample letters. Search filters enable visitors to find the forms they need.
- Providers Directory
- Maintain a directory of legal service providers. Search filters enable visitors to find the providers they need.
- Legal Resource Library
- Organize and display legal resources in a powerful hierarchical structure that you can create to match your content and audience.
- NSMI
- Organize your legal resources library by selecting from over 2500 preset categories in the National Subject Matter Index.
- Events Calendar
- Maintain an events calendar. Upcoming events can be listed on the home page.
- News
- Post news and announcements. Automatically list latest news.
- Success Stories
- Showcase your achievements by creating success stories.
- Introductory Video
- Embed and display a video to introduce the services and resources your program provides.
- Donate Button
- Enable a donate button and have it appear throughout the site.
- Feedback Form
- Enable visitors to send feedback from any page on the website.
- Flexibility
- Enable and disable features and re-arrange components on pages.
- Friendly URLs
- Automatically generated short friendly URLs are easy to share. Added benefit: better search engine optimization.
- Configurable Home Page
- Decide what shows up and where on your website's front page.
- RSS Feeds
- Syndicate your content with pre-configured RSS feeds.
- Twitter Feed
- Easily display your Twitter Feed
- AutoTwitter
- No need to hire a "social media director". Set a schedule to automatically tweet links to your Twitter account.
- Secure Login
- Use secure protocols to login to your website.
- Optimized Web Hosting
- Web hosting infrastructure is optimized for Drupal so your website is fast.
- Data Backups
- Your website is automatically copied to a back-up every night.
- Social Media Buttons
- Display linked icons for a variety of social media services.
- Content Control Panel
- Review and manage all content on the website from a single control panel with powerful search filters.
- Free Tags
- Add tags to your content. OpenAdvocate will suggest matching previously entered free-tags to avoid tag duplication. Free tags influence site-wide search results.
- Categories Control Panel
- Review and manage free-tags, guidebook topics, and library terms from one control panel.
- Users Control Panel
- Create and manage multiple user accounts for managers and editors. Easily sort and search for specific users by status or role.
- Password Reset
- Enable your website editors reset the password to their own user account. OpenAdvocate will encourage users to create strong secure passwords.
- Contact Form
- Optionally add a phone number and email address so visitors can contact you for additional assistance.
- Open Source Freedom
- Need to host & run your site on your own? Request an export of the site and run it yourself using the DLAW 2.0 (Currently under development) Drupal distribution
- Drupal 7 Goodness
- OpenAdvocate is built using the newly released Drupal 7 framework which includes significant usability and performance improvements over older versions of Drupal. OpenAdvocate is the easiest way to run a Drupal 7-based legal aid website.
- Design & Consulting services
- Urban Insight offers custom design consulting & development services. Inquire for details.