Wanda the Web Developer

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Wanda is used to designing web pages in tools like Dreamweaver. At first, changing to the WebGUI content management system was a little frustrating since it was a different paradigm, but eventually, Wanda came to see the power. She could design the look and feel as "styles" that were applied across the site, setup new pages using a catalog of different layouts, and then allow users to create, edit and manage their own articles of content. Having prebuilt widgets for polls, surveys and calendars allowed quickly adding features without any custom coding.

Brushing up on her CSS skills, Wanda soon finds that she can stop using table driven layout and get some great performance gains. The latest version of her organization's website is all CSS based -- it renders faster and more consistently across the various browsers.

After reveiwing a few options, Wanda decided to use Google Analytics, and found that it integrates nicely into WebGUI. She can even track the PDF downloads her organization offers.

Using the donor.com APIs for donor-facing transactions like donations, address changes, pledges and e-commerce means Wanda doesn't have to figure this all out herself. She can take the default HTML templates for each of these transaction types and customize their layout as much as she wants. Rather than just capturing data to be entered by the data entry staff the next day, these APIs allow donors to directly update the database in realtime. She's heard from their customer service manager that the donors really like this ability to manage and view their own profiles.

When she gets stuck, Wanda can contact donor.com's Professional Services group for help on implementing her ideas. It can be as simple as helping with a template layout, to having a donor.com Project Manager help with a full site redesign.