Online Candidate Website Features

Designed for all types of candidates, our easy-to-use political campaign website system makes it simple to add and edit your online message. Recruit supporters, raise funds, add events and upload files, create contact forms, build an e-mail list, run a poll and more!

We are the trusted provider of campaign website design and tools that help you create an effective, professional web presence that wins elections.

There are no monthly charges, long-term contracts or hidden costs. Turnaround time is fast - a finished site design can be completed within a few business days. With our design customizations, the need to hire a web designer or programmer is eliminated.

We've worked with political and organizational campaigns since 2004, which is why we provide more than just the tools. Our articles and digital products provide tips and resources to help you win!

Three website packages to choose from

Couldn't Have Been Easier!

"Creating a web site couldn't have been easier! Support was fantastic allowing us to achieve the results we were looking for!"

- M. Delcase

Each website package is based on a content management system that lets you to create and update of your site content. Built-in tools let candidates recruit supporters, take donations, add events, upload files, build an e-mail list, run a poll and more.

Each website package is designed for the varying needs of small to medium sized political campaigns. Each package is upgradable, so candidates who want to start small can begin with the Lite Website Package and later add the custom design and additional functionality of the Regular and Enhanced Website Packages.

Upgrades are easily done through your website dashboard and cost only the difference of the new package price!

Questions? Call Carol at 866-460-0995.

Regular Campaign Website Package

The Regular Website Package includes a custom template design. Get the look you want! We create a custom website header with your campaign colors, logo, background and candidate head shot. We also make other template modifications, such as colors, font, background, etc. The content management system gives you the ability to update pages, take online donations, create a poll, add integrated forms and make blog posts.

Price: $399 - Includes site tools, custom design and 12 months initial hosting.

Enhanced Campaign Website Package

The Enhanced Website Package includes all of the political website design features of the Standard package, including a custom template design, the ability to update pages, create a poll, integrate forms and create blog posts. In addition, the Enhanced package lets you add event forms, expand your site with more pages, create a multi-level site menu, along with the ability to add multiple user accounts to allow and restrict site access to different users. The Enhanced Package also includes data capture of all submitted forms, allowing you to easily incorporate this data into your marketing efforts.

Price: $599 - Includes site tools, custom design and 12 months initial hosting.

Lite Campaign Website Package

The Lite Package is designed for campaigns starting with a tight budget or with a limited campaign time-frame. This package does not include template customizations, but allows you to select from a wide selection of header images, color styles, and font types to create a unique look. From there, you can add your site content and go live! It's easily upgradable to the higher packages so you can grow your site with your campaign!

Many of our Lite color schemes have a corresponding print template that you can order and use with your offline marketing. The print templates are linked from the template section of your site administration.

Price: $149 - Includes site tools and 6 months initial hosting.

Great features at an affordable price!

As you read through the features included with each website package, you'll see why Online Candidate has been the choice for hundreds of campaigns!

• Your Own Domain: We register the domain name of your choice and set up your website hosting on your own separate domain. Your site is stand-alone and NOT stuck in a subfolder of another site.
• Custom Template Design: (Regular and Enhanced) Get the look you want, and have your candidate website match the look of your other campaign materials! We'll take your political website, design a custom website header and make other template modifications you need (such as colors, font, background, ect.) Check out the wide variety of our campaign site designs.
• Unlimited Content Updates: All Online Candidate packages include a page editor that allows for easy update of content. No HTML skills are needed, yet an advanced user has the ability to make code-level changes not only in the body copy, but also the site header, footer and sidebar!
• Add, Edit and Optimize Pages: Add, edit and delete pages. Choose your page title, description and keywords to optimize your content for search engine rankings.
• Web Hosting on our Dedicated Server: This gives you plenty of time to establish your web presence before Election Day!
• Easy Index for Search Engines: Your site will be found and indexed quickly by the search engines. As part of our service, we backlink new sites to several bookmarking services to help get the sites found and ranked faster.
• Built-in Blog: (Regular and Enhanced) Use your blog to add site updates or news. Add, edit and delete posts. Allow others to keep up with posts through your RSS feed.
• Name Your Pages and Navigation Links: Don't want to include a voter information page? Call it something else and put other information on the page. There are no 'forced names' or navigation links.
• Accept Online Contributions: Easily add donation or payment code to your website. Unlike some of our competitors, you are free to use any donation and payment system you choose.
• Multiple User Logins: (Enhanced only) Create multiple user accounts with different access levels to modify your site.
• Data Capture: (Enhanced) Capture and download data from your contact, donation and event forms.
• Events Calendar: Add campaign events, links, announcements and more to your calendar page.
• EZ Upload Files: Anything from images to Word Doc files to PDFs. Upload press releases, policy statement, photographs. Have your supporters download, print and share your material!
• Upload and Resize Images on the fly!
• Online Poll: Find out what people are thinking! Set up your own question and answers. Includes and IP counter to prevent multiple voting. Change your question anytime.
• Popup Generator: (Enhanced only) Create and control your own site popup message.
• Contact Form: Visitors may contact your campaign via web form. Includes a customizable response email to let them know that the message has been sent.
• Volunteer Form: Optional volunteer form, providing you ability to easily recruit others for campaign tasks.
• Donation Form: Optional donation form, allowing supporters to pledge donations and/or donate online. Online donation accounts, such as PayPal or Piryx, must be set up separately, but can be incorporated into your site and donation thank you pages.
• Endorsement Form: Provide an easy way for others to submit candidate endorsements!
• Mail List: Collect opt-in e-mail addresses that allow you to contact your audience. Members can unsubscribe themselves anytime, making your list truly hands-free. Your email list is also exportable for use with other email services such as Aweber or MailChip.
• Refer to a Friend: Users will be able to tell others about your site.
• Social Media Links: Easily integrate Facebook, Twitter and YouTube into your site.
• Printable Content Pages: Web page content can be automatically converted into a printer-friendly version.
• Privacy Statement: Customize your privacy statement for the site.
• Log Reports: Access to your site visitor information and track your website traffics. Your can even add your own analytics code to the site!
• E-mail Addresses: Forward domain addresses like contact@yourdomainname.com to whatever personal e-mail address(es) you choose! Web mail accounts are also available.
• CSS Controlled Template: Professionally designed with complimentary color schemes and have been optimized to be clean and fast loading.
• Social Bookmarks: Make your site easier to bookmark
  and share with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Del.icio.us, Furl and more!
• RSS Feed: Supporters can be notified of your campaign's activities through an automatically-updated RSS feed.
• Keep your domain: After you win your election, change your pages to reflect your new status and provide a way for your constituents to keep in touch with you.
• Technical support: Includes online knowledge base, email or phone.
• Special Discount: Online Candidate website clients get discount membershipos at OnlineCandidateResources.com, our candidate training site!
• See actual design samples on our Flikr page.

Questions? Call Carol at 866-460-0995.

Easy and painless setup

You have enough to do getting your campaign off the ground. Why let the creation of your website become a headache? Online Candidate setup is simple and painless. We've worked to streamline the process down to a few simple steps.

Simply select your campaign package and order. After you order, you will be returned to an online form to supply us with basic contact and campaign information. From there, we can start your site setup right away!

Your website domain will be set up in 1-2 business days. If we have your materials, such as a candidate head shot and/or logo, your site customizations can usually be finished within in that time. While we design your site, you can log in and begin setting up your site.

Log in and begin adding your content. Once your header and template is complete, you can generate your site and go live! Afterwards, you can update, edit and add additional content to your site.

With a Lite of Regular Website Package, you can easily upgrade to higher packages without losing any of your existing content. The price? Only the difference between the package prices!

Perform online fundraising with ease

Raising money through your website any way you choose. Online Candidate is designed to work very easily with PayPal. Have another payment system you want to use? That's fine, as you can add custom code directly into your site pages and sidebar. Unlike some services, we don't charge or act as a middleman with your campaign fundraising.

Which package is right for you?

Feature Breakdown	Enhanced	Regular	Lite
Your own domain name	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom design	Yes	Yes	No
Initial included web hosting	1 year	1 year	6 months
Number of included pages	Unlimited	10	10
Multiple navigation levels	Yes	No	No
Events Manager and forms	Yes	No	No
Data capture from all forms	Yes	No	No
Built in blog	Yes	Yes	No
Calendar Feature	Yes	Yes	No
Upgradable to next package level	N/A	Yes	Yes
Ability to make unlimited updates	Yes	Yes	Yes
SEO Friendly?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Name pages and navigation links	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ability to upload files (images, PDFs, ect)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Printable content pages	Yes	Yes	Yes
Online poll	Yes	Yes	Yes
Popup Generator	Yes	No	No
Contact form	Yes	Yes	Yes
Donation form	Yes	Yes	Yes
Volunteer form	Yes	Yes	Yes
Endorsement form	Yes	Yes	Yes
Integrate for online contributions	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mail list system	Yes	Yes	Yes
Refer to a Friend	Yes	Yes	Yes
Privacy Statement	Yes	Yes	Yes
Unlimited e-mail forwards	Yes	Yes	Yes
Webmail accounts	5	NA	NA
Email forwards	Yes	Yes	Yes
Event/Calendar Tool	Yes	Yes	Yes
Social Bookmark/Media Icons	Yes	Yes	Yes
CSS controlled templates	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sitemap	Yes	No	No
OnlineCandidateResources.com Discount	Yes	Yes	Yes
Site Setup option available?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Upgradable to next package for price difference?	N/A	Yes	Yes
Technical support	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hidden Fees?	NONE	NONE	NONE
Price	$599	$399	$149
	Learn More	Learn More	Learn More

Combine your print and web design

We can match your print and web design. With our Print/Web Option, we can create your campaign print templates. We'll design a series of Word brochure templates to match the look of your new website. Add this as a Website Option when you order your website (scroll down the list for options).

Online Candidate vs Competitors

Feature	Online Candidate	Outside Web Developer	Low Cost 'Site Builders'
Domain Name	Included	$15-30 additional	Added cost
Separate Domain?	Yes	Probably	Might want to check
Site Design	Included	$750 - $2000+	Usually template-limited
Setup within a few business days?	Yes	Maybe	Yes
Upload Content	Included	Additional cost	Yes
Site Updates	Included	$20-70+ per hour	Included
Online Polls	Included	Additional cost	???
Printable Pages	Included	Additional cost	Maybe
Refer a Friend	Included	Additional cost	???
Mail List	Included	Additional cost	No
Campaign Contact Forms	Included	Additional cost	No
Site Hosting	Included.	$10-30 per month	Usually shared hosting
Content and Support Library	Yes	No	No
Initial Backlinks?	Yes	No	No
Support?	Knowledge base, email, phone	Additional cost	Good luck!
Total Cost:	$149-$599 complete!	A lot more!	You get what you pay for...
"A strong campaign website not only helps increase public awareness, but can become a source of campaign revenue!" Don't wait to make the move online. Call for more information or order your campaign website today!

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Campaign Website Features	Included?
Your own domain name	Yes
Included website hosting	Yes
Custom design	Varies w/package.
Number of included pages	Varies w/package.
Ability to make unlimited updates	Varies w/Package
Multiple User Logins?	Varies w/Package
Multiple Access Levels?	Varies w/Package
Ability to name pages and navigation links	Yes
Ability to upload files	Yes
Built in blog	Varies w/package.
Printable content pages	Yes
Online poll	Yes
Advanced contact form	Yes
Mail list (also integrates with other services)	Yes
Refer to a Friend link	Yes
Privacy Statement	Yes
Accept online contributions	Yes
Integrates with outside services	Any!
E-mail forwards	Yes
Event/Calendar Tool	Yes
Social Bookmark Icons	Yes
RSS Event Feed	Yes
CSS controlled templates	Yes
Free technical support	Yes
Customized print templates to match your website?	Available!

5 Reasons to Choose Online Candidate: 1) Our website tools are simple to use and designed specifically for political campaigns. 2) Fast and easy ordering and setup. Your site can be online within two business days! 3) Our website hosting packages are upgradable with a simple click and payment. Grow your website with your campaign. 4) We do all our own design and programming work. Nothing is 'outsourced'. 5) Other companies claim to have great support, but how easy is it to really contact them? Our 800 number is right at the top of the screen. Call us - how can we help you? Affordable, Easy, Professional "As a first time candidate for State Representative, I was concerned about the cost and time of setting up a web site. Online Candidate was affordable, easy to use and projected the professionalism of my campaign." - D. Allen