Does your chapter not want to show advertisements on your website? Great! We promise to never show advertisements on websites that don’t want the price break. We also promise to never show pop-up ads on our websites that do want to use the ad supported website option.

So whether your chapter is 200 years old or just starting out, WeGoAll has an affordable website package that can help your fraternity or sorority grow.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, from March 15th to March 17th, WeGoAll is offering a $50 discount on our new website setup fee. Why? Because everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s day.

Have a happy St. Patrick’s Day.

You can now upload a .CSV file using the new member import feature to import a list of members to your website. The import feature automatically makes sure each member in the list is not already a member of your website and sends out a welcome email to each member containing the member’s password.

Don’t make your alumni/alumnae register on yet another website; Just import them.

We were recently mentioned in the Yahoo! User Interface Blog for our blog post on how to add YouTube videos and Yahoo! Maps to the YUI rich text editor. We hope this plugin can help people add videos and maps to their websites. A big thanks goes out to the Yahoo! team for mentioning WeGoAll!

Our clients have requested a lot of different features over the past few months. We do our best to analyze which features are relevant, and the ones that make the grade are added into your website. You wanted browsing pictures to be faster — done. You wanted private access to message boards to be given to more than one member group — done. You wanted email accounts — done. And there are countless other features that have been added or updated thanks to feedback from our great clients.

We’ve learned over the last couple of years that running and maintaining a website is not the goal of any chapter, but simply a means to an end. You shouldn’t have to sift through countless pages of documentation before you can start using your website to promote your chapter and improve communication. You should just be able to look at it and know how it works. We’ve tried to accomplish this through what we call “intuitive design.” When we build new features and revise old features, we try to think about how you, our end-user, will use it, and how we can create a design that will help guide you through it.

We think our website system is very easy to use and user-friendly, but we want to make it even easier. Starting today, WeGoAll is launching a new initiative called, “Simplify your site,” an initiative designed to make your website more intuitive and easy to use.

To kick it off, we’ve rolled out a new Site Dashboard to replace the old Control Panel. The Site Dashboard displays links to the different website features in a more meaningful and easy to understand manner. Instead of the old, overwhelming, Control Panel that listed something like 32 links, we’re opting for a simpler, cleaner, and easier to understand Dashboard that will only show the information and links you are interested in. We also know that the Control Panel made it easy for expert members to access the tools they needed quickly, so we added a Quick Links panel to provide quick links to the really important features like Dashboard, My Profile, Private Messages, and Add Event.

As you can see, the Site Dashboard provides a list of several different control panels, each with links to various features and a description of each feature. We believe this new approach will benefit both newcomers and experts when managing their website. This is just an example of how we plan on making our websites easier, from the inside-out.

Keep an eye out for more blog posts about how we are making our websites easier to use. If you think a feature on your WeGoAll website could be improved, please let us know — We’d love to hear from you.

We’re going to Simplify Your Site.

You can create forms with short answer text fields, long answer textareas, checkboxes, and drop down lists. Form submissions can be automatically emailed to you the second a form is submitted, and form information is always stored on our servers — making it easy for you to track and manage your data. Need to get your form data into a spreadsheet? It’s as easy as clicking the “Export” button. Auto-reply emails can also be sent to the person who submitted your form with a customized message from you.

So if your chapter needs recruitment forms, absence excuse forms, surveys, or any other type of form, WeGoAll’s Custom Forms feature will help get your chapter all of the feedback it needs.

Each website will come with pre-made email accounts, and any additional email accounts can be added free of charge at your request. Your email will be easily accessible by visiting http://mail.your-domain.com.

If you’re not using WeGoAll yet, contact us today to see how we can help you and your organization save time, collect more donations, improve billing collection, and look even more professional.

Rich Text Editor - YouTube plugin

We also have been using another great feature from the YUI team, the Rich Text Editor. The rich text editor allows our clients to easily create and style content, and does not require users to know or understand HTML code.

Here is a plugin WeGoAll created so that our clients could easily insert YouTube videos into their websites using the Rich Text Editor from the Yahoo User Interface.

View a demonstration

<style type="text/css">
  .yui-skin-sam .yui-toolbar-container .yui-toolbar-youTube span.yui-toolbar-icon {
    background-image: url(http://www.wegoall.com/themes/default/images/shared/icons/youtube_icon.gif);
    background-position: 1px 0px;
  }
</style>

...

var myEditor = new YAHOO.widget.Editor('full_editor', {
  height: '300px', width: '530px', dompath: true
});

myEditor.on('toolbarLoaded', function() {
    var youTubeMovie = {
    	showDlg : false,
    	dlg : null,
    	dialog_config : { width: '400px', height: 'auto', fixedcenter: true, constraintoviewport: true, visible: false, draggable: false, modal: true },
    	handleCancel : function() {
    		this.cancel();
    		youTubeMovie.showDlg = false;
    	},
    	handleSubmit : function() {
    		if (!this.getData().ymovie) return false;
    		youTubeMovie.showDlg = false;
    		var fl_url = this.getData().ymovie.match(/(youtube).*(v=)([^&]*)/);
		    fl_url = fl_url[3];
		    fl_url = "http://www.youtube.com/v/" + fl_url;
		    var html = '<br><br><div style="margin: auto; text-align: center; background: #eee; width: 425px; height: 350px;"><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="' + fl_url + '"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="' + fl_url + '" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></div><br><br>';
		    myEditor.execCommand('inserthtml', html);
		    this.cancel();
    	},
    	createDialog: function() {
    		var youtubeEle = document.createElement('div');
    		youtubeEle.setAttribute('id', 'youTubeDlg');
    		youtubeEle.innerHTML = '<div class="hd">Insert YouTube Movie</div><divclass="bd"><form name="youTubeForm" class="text"><br/>YouTube Movie URL: <input type="text" name="ymovie" size="30"/><br /></form></div>';
    		YAHOO.util.Dom.setStyle(youtubeEle, 'visibility', 'hidden');
    		document.body.appendChild(youtubeEle);
    		youTubeMovie.dlg = new YAHOO.widget.Dialog(youtubeEle, youTubeMovie.dialog_config);
    		youTubeMovie.dlg.cfg.queueProperty("buttons", [ { text:"Submit", handler:youTubeMovie.handleSubmit, isDefault:true }, { text:"Cancel", handler:youTubeMovie.handleCancel } ]);
    		youTubeMovie.dlg.render(document.body);
    	},
    	toggle : function() {
    		youTubeMovie.showDlg = !youTubeMovie.showDlg;
    		if (youTubeMovie.showDlg) {
    			youTubeMovie.dlg.show();
    		} else {
    			youTubeMovie.dlg.hide();
    		}
    	}
    };    

    myEditor.toolbar.addButtonToGroup({ type: 'push', label: 'Insert YouTube movie', value: 'youTube' }, 'insertitem');				    

    myEditor.toolbar.on('youTubeClick', function() {
        youTubeMovie.toggle();
    });    

    youTubeMovie.createDialog();  

});

Rich Text Editor - Yahoo Maps plugin

Here is a plugin WeGoAll created so that our clients could easily insert Yahoo Maps into their websites.

View a demonstration

var yahooMapsScan = function(e) {
	var mapEle = YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementsByClassName('yahooMap'), mapElement;
	if (mapEle) {
		for (var i = 0; i < mapEle.length; ++i) {
			mapElement = mapEle[i];
			var map = new YMap(mapElement), address = mapElement.getAttribute('address'), zoom = mapElement.getAttribute('zoom');
			map.addTypeControl();
			map.addZoomLong();
			map.setMapType(YAHOO_MAP_REG);
			map.drawZoomAndCenter(address, zoom);
			YEvent.Capture(map, EventsList.onEndGeoCode, function() { map.addMarker(map.getCenterLatLon()); });
		}
	}
};

myEditor.on('toolbarLoaded', function() {
    var yahooMaps = {
    	showDlg : false, dlg : null,
    	dialog_config : { width: '300px', height: 'auto', fixedcenter: true, constraintoviewport: true, visible: false, draggable: false, modal: true },
    	handleCancel : function() {
    		// If the user clicked cancel in the dialog, then hide the dialog
    		this.cancel();
    		yahooMaps.showDlg = false;
    	},
    	handleSubmit : function() {
    		// If the user clicked submit, then insert the YouTube HTML into the editor
    		if (!this.getData().street && !this.getData().city && !this.getData().state && !this.getData().zip && !this.getData().country) return false;
    		yahooMaps.showDlg = false;

    		var street = this.getData().street,
    			city = this.getData().city,
    			state = this.getData().state,
    			zip = this.getData().zip,
    			country = this.getData().country,
    			address = '';

    		if (street) address += street;
    		if (city) address += ',' + city;
    		if (state) address += ',' + state;
    		if (zip) address += ',' + zip;
    		if (country) address += ',' + country;

		    // Create the HTML code to insert the map into the editor
		    var html = '<br><br><div class="yahooMap" address="' + address + '" zoom="3" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; background: #eee; width: 425px; height: 350px;"> </div><br><br>';
		    // Insert the html into the editor
		    myEditor.execCommand('inserthtml', html);
		    // Hide the dialog
		    this.cancel();
    	},
    	createDialog: function() {
    		// Create the container element for the dialog
    		var yahoomapsEle = document.createElement('div');
    		yahoomapsEle.setAttribute('id', 'youTubeDlg');
    		yahoomapsEle.innerHTML = '<div class="hd">Insert Yahoo Map</div><div class="bd"><form name="mapForm" class="text"><table><tr><td>Street</td><td><input type="text" name="street" /></td></tr><tr><td>City</td><td><input type="text" name="city" /></td></tr><tr><td>State</td><td><input type="text" name="state" /></td></tr><tr><td>Zip</td><td><input type="text" name="zip" /></td></tr><tr><td>Country</td><td><input type="text" name="country" /></td></tr></table></form></div>';
    		YAHOO.util.Dom.setStyle(yahoomapsEle, 'visibility', 'hidden');
    		document.body.appendChild(yahoomapsEle);
    		// Create the dialog
    		yahooMaps.dlg = new YAHOO.widget.Dialog(yahoomapsEle, yahooMaps.dialog_config);
    		yahooMaps.dlg.cfg.queueProperty("buttons", [ { text:"Submit", handler:yahooMaps.handleSubmit, isDefault:true }, { text:"Cancel", handler:yahooMaps.handleCancel } ]);
    		yahooMaps.dlg.render(document.body);
    	},
    	toggle : function() {
    		// Show/Hide the YouTube dialog
    		yahooMaps.showDlg = !yahooMaps.showDlg;
    		if (yahooMaps.showDlg) {
    			yahooMaps.dlg.show();
    		} else {
    			yahooMaps.dlg.hide();
    		}
    	}
    };
    // Add the Yahoo Maps button to the editor's toolbar in the Insert Item group
    myEditor.toolbar.addButtonToGroup({ type: 'push', label: 'Insert Yahoo Map', value: 'yahooMaps' }, 'insertitem');
    // When the user clicks the button, then run this function
    myEditor.toolbar.on('yahooMapsClick', function() {
        yahooMaps.toggle();
    });
    // Create the dialog that allows the user to enter the map address
    yahooMaps.createDialog();
});

About WeGoAll

WeGoAll creates interactive fraternity and sorority websites and database management tools that will professionally present chapters online, help to facilitate internal chapter communication between members and alumni, help improve communication with potential new members, and improve alumni donations.

With the growing interest in WeGoAll, we had to find a better way to communicate with potential clients and give support to our current clients, while still finding time to constantly improve our websites’ features. WeGoAll recently started using a free service called the Zoho CRM that not only allows us to streamline our sales process to potential clients, but it also helps us to provide top-notch support to our current clients.

If you ever have a question for our staff or you are running into a problem on your website, simply click the “Help” link in your site’s control panel .  Next click the link at the top of the window labeled “Have a problem or need help?” From there you will be able to contact our staff and let us know what you need. After the contact form is submitted, the information is sent via email to all WeGoAll staff members and added into the Zoho CRM case manager.

We have also been hard at work helping our clients to communicate more easily. Text-messaging has been possible with our websites since last year, but we recently lowered the price of each text-message considerably. Text-messaging members provides a way for any chapter to communicate more effectively.

We also recently improved the “Automatic Newsletter” feature with fully customizable information and images.  The automatic newsletter feature allows organizations to automatically send out newsletters on the first day of every month.  The newsletters can be sent to any or all members and contains the latest news, upcoming events for the month, and other organizational information.

The message board, private messaging system, file sharing, and job listing features have also been completely redesigned.

Does your fraternity or sorority need a WeGoAll website to enhance chapter communication?

WeGoAll recently teamed up with Amazon.com and Amazon Payments to allow chapters to accept alumni donations and sell items such as chapter tshirts directly on their website.

These new features open chapters up to new ways of increasing the collection of money from members and alumni. Because the transactions are made online, quickly, securely, and with credit cards, our clients can expect to significantly increase cash flow for its chapter.

The setup process is quick and simple, and using the new features is even easier. Learn more by watching our product videos: http://www.wegoall.com/video