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The Website Toolkit is based on 'Plone', the popular and widely used open source content management system, and the Toolkit's rich set of features mirrors those of Plone.

The Website Toolkit provides user-friendly features, flexibility and offers extensive functionality to help you build better websites. The Toolkit allows you to create and build robust and sophisticated websites using easy to use and familiar tools. A vast variety of designs (skins) and products make it easier to design and develop the type of site that you require, while enhanced publishing, workflow features and other options help you get your web pages online quickly and easily.

It includes professional website designs, authoring, data and publishing tools needed to create sophisticated and beautiful websites.


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Some key features of the Website Toolkit are highlighted below:

	You will love the Website Toolkit "The Toolkit provides us direct access to our web-site with the options of making changes and additions ourselves in the easiest way" - Lesia Dronova, DNIPRO Basin Environment Programme.			Improved web page editing The Toolkit includes a user-friendly and powerful editing tool which enables you to readily format text, and insert images and hyperlinks. It is similar to using Microsoft Word or other word processors.
	Create websites without any complex set-up procedures If hosting on your own server, the Toolkit works with Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The software installers help get you up and running within minutes. The installation is straightforward.			Fully supported by UNEP/IW:LEARN UNEP/IW:LEARN provides support to all projects who wish to utilise the Website Toolkit as their web solution. **UNEP/IW:LEARN provides free website hosting and design and development services to projects adopting the Toolkit.**
	Offers multilingual capabilities Available in over 35 languages, the Toolkit provides multilingual content management. It supports Chinese, Japanese, and right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.			Sophisticated users and group administration Add, edit, and manage access rights of users and groups in the website. Also allows decentralized posting of information and remote website publishing
	Simple and advanced searching and impressive search engine visibility All content is instantly searchable, including Word documents and PDF files. Plone's LiveSearch feature also facilitates an instant search. Websites based on the Toolkit are cross-browser friendly and sites based on this software are typically ranked well in Google search results.			Syndicate your website content By syndicating your web content using RSS feeds, you can readily share information with other users. By using the RSS feed generated by your website, users can keep up-to-date with what is new on your site. It is also possible to use RSS feeds to integrate your website content into another website using a feed reader/aggregator and vice versa.
	Integrated Site Map New content is automatically inserted into your website's Site Map. The Toolkit's Site Map is designed to make it easier for visitors to navigate your website.			Can handle a wide range of content types The Toolkit can handle a variety of content types including text pages, documents, files, images and GIS data. Hundreds of add-on products are also available, including web forums, issue trackers, blogs and various online collaboration tools.
	Thoroughly documented software To date there are five published books about the underlying technology (Plone) of the Website Toolkit, which have been translated into various languages including German and Japanese.			Ability to revert back to previous work If you make a mistake, you can easily revert back to your previous version by selecting the 'undo' feature.