functionality

Helix can give you everything you need to expand your business online, with modules for e-commerce, to sell online, an online calendar to publicise your company's events or an e-newsletters to publish and automatically sending product and service information to your customers.

Helix centrally hosts all the applications software which enables these and many other very useful functions to operate smoothly and can be added-on to your existing site when required. Each module has a set-up charge and a yearly fee for its use. For further information on helix modules visit www.helixsitebuilder.co.uk

Events Calendar

The Events module provides a list of current events that the visitor can browse and view details.

Events calendars can be added to public and private areas of the site, providing a useful facility for staff and visitors to keep up to date with any forth coming events that your organisation may have.

The standard fields for each event item are:

• Title of Event
• Location (venue)
• Description
• Start Date
• Time
• Event Duration (days)
• Website
• Contact Email
• Contact Phone number

Formats for displaying events include:

• Simple List
• Extended List
• Month View

When the date of the event is past the event is removed from the listings but is still viewable on the Monthly view for achieve purposes.

Product Catalogue

The Product catalogue provides a means of displaying your products in an organised fashion so that visitors can locate and view products of interest. When combined with the order processing module a full online ordering / e-commerce site can be created.

Catalogue features:

• Browse by category
• List short form product information
• Display full product details
• Thumbnail and full size product pictures
• Product Pricing
• Product promotion

Product record fields:

• Name
• Short Description
• Full Description
• Options
• Product Code
• Manaufacturer Code
• Cost
• Delivery Time
• Qty. in stock

e-Newsletter

The e-Newsletter module comprises of a template of a html email newsletter (displaying graphics and pictures) and the administrative functions necessary to create a new newsletter. You will be able to add content and save, build and maintain a list of recipient email details and create a schedule for the mailing of the newsletter to the recipients.

A simple form component can be added to any of the web sites pages for visitors to subscribe to receive a newsletter.

Order Processing

The Order processing module operates with the product catalogue module for selling online and provides fully featured online ordering including:

• Shopping Basket
• Order Generator
• Shipping Information
• Custom account management

Thumbnail gallery

The Thumbnail gallery provides all the functions to display images in a pleasing and organised way on your web site. The images can be organised by category and subject. When a user clicks on a thumbnail of an image a full size image is displayed either in a separate frame or main window.

Maintaining your image library is a simple process with functions to upload, rename and delete images. Images will automatically be sized to fit the layout of your web site.

Combined with the order processing module, visitors can order copies of selected images.

Online forum

An Online forum provides visitors with the facility to make comments on given subjects and to add new subjects. It can act as a bulletin board or for collaborative work online. This module has been extensively used by an industry technology board to debate its future with its patrons online.

Newsfeeds

Newsfeeds are externally supplied news content that can be displayed on your web page. There are a number of freely available sources of newsfeeds that can be supported by SiteBuilder.