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What kinds of pages can I have on my NationBuilder site?

Official response from Adriel Hampton

NationBuilder's flexible CMS allows you to do just about anything you'd like, with basic pages with content WYSIWYG, basic HTML and template editors. Additionally, we have a growing selection of page types with rich integrated features for organizing. Just click on "new page" to access all of these page types:

ActBlue: Connect an ActBlue entity and automatically pull in all the donations. This can be your primary donation page, or a secondary one. It requires your entity donation page URL (it has to be your actual entity page ex. not a “Friends of Abe” page). Page-specific settings include auto-tagging.

Activity Stream: A Facebook-style news feed of activity happening on the site or of people you're following.

Basic: Nothing fancy, just pure HTML.

Blog: Blogs can have many blogs posts, unlimited authors, comments, extended entries, and embedded media from more than 200 sites. Advanced settings under the "blog" tab allow you to specify which blog posts to show, how many to show, etc. and whether or not logged-in visitors can write guest posts. You can also auto-tag anyone who posts a guest blog entry.

Calendar: Listing of upcoming events, optionally allow user submitted events, searching for nearby events, and an overview map of all events. It is a container for events, specifying what its events should be called, whether or not all events on the site should be included on the page, and can optionally include only specific event types (ex. a page for all of your meet and greet activities). It sorts events by date chronologically by default. You can switch it to be by distance, and choose whether or not to show a map. You can include a custom introduction and  choose to allow user generated events with sub-menu settings, including assigning a point person to any event creators. It also includes autoresponse emails.

Donation: Accept credit card donations. Supports goals for both donors and amount donated, automatic public recognition of recent donors, and autoresponse thank you emails. You can link your donation page to credit card processing with or without a merchant account through providers including Democracy Engine, PayPal, SagePay, Payflow Pro and Authorize.net. In the page settings, you can set minimums and maximums for amounts, and goals for total amount or number of donors. It allows you to show the most recent public donation and to create an introduction with text and/or video. Use the page settings to auto-tag donors, assign them to a point person, and notify a member of your nation by email of any new donations.

Endorsement: Individuals and/or organizations can make endorsements. You can set a goal and feature important endorsements. This page type supporters auto-tagging and point person assignments as well as automatic notifcations. You can also allow supporters to endorse by text message keyword and review your endorsements, feature key endorsements and endorser photos, and print a PDF of your signatures.

Event: Supports rsvps, hosts, multiple paid ticket levels, tracking attendees, two-way Facebook event integration, staging locations, rsvp autoresponse emails with directions, and printable lists for the door. The "Event details" tab includes an advanced settings submenu. You can specify location settings, hosts and ticket sales, and the page type supports auto-tagging, point person assignments, and auto-notifications for your nation's leaders. You can create a text and/or video intro, and allow supporters to RSVP by text message keyword. The page also supports volunteer signups and shift assignments, You can also copy an event by clicking on "clone."

FAQ: Frequently asked questions. Container for questions. Allow detailed questions and answers.

Feedback: Anything requiring a single free form text field, like 'contact us' or 'tell your story'." The page type includes feedback labels, a volunteer recruitment options, and auto-tagging. You can automatically assign point people for anyone who leaves feedback, notify leaders of new feedback by email, and include a text and/or rich media introduction.

Find Friends: For people to use their Facebook or Twitter accounts to connect with their friends and followers who have already joined.

Followers: Everyone following the signed in person.

Follows: Everyone the signed in person is following.

Leaderboard: Publish one or many leaderboards to recognize your stars. A container for leaderboards created under People > Leaderboards, which can include recognition for recruiting, twitter activity and political capital. You can also create a text and rich media introduction.

Meetup Everywhere: Show a map of your Meetup Everywhere communities with upcoming nearby meetups. You can also customize introduction text and rich media.

Moneybomb: Supporters can pledge an amount to donate at a very specific time and recruit others to do the same. Turns a fundraising drive into an event. Includes the option of a custom introduction, autoresponses, auto-tagging, point person assignment, and notification emails for new pledges.

Paid Membership: Accept payment for an annual, monthly, or weekly site membership. Support for multiple membership levels at different price points. In the page settings, you can specify who notifications go to, create membership options, and customize an introduction and the autoresponse emails to new members.

Petition: The online activism stalwart. You can set a signature goal, collect comments, pictures, and people can choose whether to publish their signature on the site. The page includes advanced settings, point person assignment, email notifications of new signatures, optional auto-tagging, signatures through text keywords, and volunteer recruitment. You can also review your signatures, map supporters, and print out a PDF of your signatures.

Political Capital: The history and current balance of the signed in person's political capital. You can also edit this page to say "participation credit" if you don't want to award political chits.

Press Release: Assign a headline and author with contact info to a content field. Pulls in contact number and email for author automatically.

Recruiting: Recruit friends and track their involvement. Have they donated? Are they volunteering? You can create an introduction and select a page for supporters to promote. Automatically generates recruiter links for many social media sites.

Redirect: Create a link on your NationBuilder site that simply leads to another page or an entirely different website (with another URL). Redirects can also be created under Pages > Legacy > New redirect.

Rules: The simplest and surprisingly most effective way to keep a nation civil is by having a set of rules and enforcing them. On the rules page, you can set notifications when a rule is broken, customize intro text, create new rules and edit the defaults, and customize autoresponses for when rules are violated.

Signup: Basic signup form, you can ask for email address, physical address, phone, whether they want to volunteer, etc. Settings include auto-tagging, volunteer recruitment, point person assignment, and autoresponse emails. You can also create a list of database tags for new signups to choose one from.

Suggestion Box: Crowdsource suggestions and allow people to rate them based on criteria you specify, or to comment. For example, you can solicit policy ideas around a particular topic and let people rate the ideas based on whether they are good, bad, impractical or important. Or you can crowdsource questions for an event, letting people rate them as great, off-topic, important, etc. The page type is a container for suggestions, and includes autoresponse emails and optional auto-tagging.

Survey: Collect answers to your multiple choice survey questions. Frequently survey questions are used in phone banking and canvassing, but with this page, you can collect the information directly on your website too. You get a customizable introduction, optional auto-tagging, point person assignments, and email notifications of new surveys. You can create multiple-choice, yes-no or open ended survey questions and review and export the results. You could also do a door-to-door survey canvass with wireless tablets and NationBuilder.

Unsubscribe: Allows signups to opt-out of receiving emails. An unsubscribe page should be linked at the bottom of all your email blasts and we automatically create one for you.

Volunteer Signup: Asks for detailed contact info and for any volunteer tasks or roles you may want like hosting an event, interning, or stuffing envelopes. It includes optional auto-tagging, autoresponse emails, point person assignments, and an optional custom introduction with text and/or rich media. You can also assign tags to volunteers based on the roles they sign up for on your page.

Vote Pledge: People can find out if they can vote, and pledge their support (or not). Optionally count the votes with a goal. Include a video, and this is the perfect page for people to send their friends.

Voter Registration: Tight integration with Rock the Vote's nationwide voter registration system. Voters will get printable forms they can mail in, and we'll automatically capture email addresses of signups.

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