Website Designer Introduction to Working With Gnosis

Overview

Gnosis provides a "sister site" to work alongside the organization's main site.  This sister site includes a set of pages (in one or multiple languages) to provide a series of database-driven functions - such as:

• Event/Program Calendars
• Event/Program Registration
• Zoom Attendance 
• New Contact/Member/Mail List signups
• Multiple Forms to support various business processes
• Email opt-in, opt-out, and subscriptions
• Family member management (where applicable)
• Volunteer registration & profiles
• Member activity pages - Group Management, Upcoming Activities, etc...
• Online donations: one-time & recurring.
• Sponsorship Invoice history & payment
• Peer-to-peer fundraising management (where applicable)
• Plus, many custom operations are added on an ad-hoc request basis.

Different non-profit organizations select a subset of these pages based on their mission and needs.

When implementing the sister site setup, we use the design on the main site to replicate the look, feel, styles, and images on the main site so that moving between the two sites is completely transparent.

Main Site Interaction (developer reference)

Below are two reference articles that describe the Gnosis system functionality available for the main website:

• The Gnosis Calendar API (JSON Request) - Adding your Calendar to your Main Website
  Provides calendar data via API, allowing you to add calendar info to display on the main website and options for including upcoming program/event results in your site search functionality.
   
• Adding Registration/Signup to Your Main Website
  Provides the API information for adding a "Register/Signup" link that updates directly into the Gnosis CRM.

Some examples of the calendar integration at work are:

• https://www.gildasclubdetroit.org
• https://www.gildasclubchicago.org

An example of the registration/signup can be found at:

• https://gildasclubgr.org - bottom of the page: "Sign Up for Our E-Newsletter"

Examples of alternate calendar navigation styles can be seen here:

• https://gcc.gnosishosting.net/Events/Calendar
• https://rdc.gnosishosting.net/Events/Calendar
• https://cscnj.gnosishosting.net/Events/Calendar

When you have a basic layout (header, footer, styles & navigation) completed, let us know best way to copy the new page design to the Gnosis Portal sister site so that both sites have a consistent design.  We have two options here:

1. You provide us with an HTML/CSS/JS/Images package that we can use to update the Gnosis portal site. Our charge for this option is about $240-$320 for clients with a software support agreement (SSA)
2. You provide us with a URL of the staging site so we can copy the design and get it ready for the portal site.  Our charge for this option is about $320-$390 for clients with a software support agreement (SSA), and $450=$500 without an SSA.