To give you an idea of the flexibility that Clear-Site has to offer, we have created a number of sample or demonstration websites through the Clear-Site software. The sites range from business to personal and from sports clubs to community driven applications. All of the sites are based on completely fictitious organisations and people.

Clear-Site in Sports Clubs

Clear-Site lends itself particularly well to sports clubs. News can be published quickly and easily by many people. You can sub-divide your site into the different sections corresponding to your club e.g. underage level, senor level, ladies & gents. Having done this you can then assign responsibility for the maintainance of the different sections to different people who would have a stake in that section.

The real power of Clear-Site in sports clubs comes from user participation in the public section. By adding messageboards, guestbooks and polls to your configuration, visitors to your site can interact with the club and voice their opinions on different subjects.

To sum up, a well designed website can make your sports club stand out from the rest. Existing customers of Clear-Site say that the messageboards & polls give their site a freshness and can act as a forum for members of the club and outsiders discuss the topics close to their hearts. 

Faketown GAA Club

Faketown GAA club is a pretty standard rural GAA club based in the ficticious Irish town of Faketown. The club play hurling & gaelic football at many levels (underage, senior, intermediate, ladies etc.) They have a proud history that they want to publish on the site. They also run a weekly lottery for fund-raising purposes. You'll notice quite a lot of information on the homepage. From viewing the home page, visitors to the site will be able to read a welcome note, see the latest club news, see the latest GAA news, view last weeks lotto numbers, see upcoming fixtures and current league tables in hurling & football. Its a very vibrant & dynamic homepage and gives the impression of a very active & lively club. The site uses Smart-Menu & breadcrumbs for navigation. This makes sense as there is a lot of different categories & even sub categories within the site (e.g. Hurling breaks off into a camogie section which has its own news and match reports etc.). This categorisation was made possible by using base sites. You'll notice in the content lists in the hurling section that Site Admin & Philip O'Brien have posted articles (News & Fixtures) so this is a multi user system. There is a messageboard, guestbook & Poll list contained in the site so it is a very dynamic site. Visitors to this (fake) site would get the impression that the site & club is very up to date

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Faketown Golf Club

Faketown Golf Club is ficticious 18 hole golf course. The homepage is both attractive & functional with rich colours & useful up to the minute information. So for example the scores form the previous competetion are scrolling across the top of the screen in a ticker and we can see that the course is open today. Latest club news & internation golf news is also shown on the homepage along with upcoming events & contact information. The homepage takes on the mantle of the most important part of this site and it seems to cope admirably. There is a lot of information here but none of it is cluttered. It's displayed in a clear fashion and much of this is down to the layout of the content in tables. The 'course' section makes use of the editor and content list feature. The site also features a messageboard & a poll page.

Clear-Site in Business

In today's world, more and more businesses are coming online. If your business has a website it opens up your shop door to the world. Clear-Site gives you all you need to create and maintain a successful website for your business. 

We appreciate that most businesses change on a daily basis. When new stock comes in, you want to be able to advertise it on your site that day. Unlike some web solutions available, Clear-Site doesn't charge per page so as your business develops & grows, so too should your site - at no extra cost. 

Of course you get more than just a website, you also get email which is a very effective way of communicating with your customers & suppliers. 

A website is a huge asset to any business and when its as easy to use and maintain as Clear-Site, it will give your business a massive competitive edge.

Faketown Interiors

This sample features an interior design shop. Its a lot smaller (there are only 4 pages) than some of the other samples but none the less very effective.  Clever use of the header image, background image and the editor makes for a very professional and clear looking finish.  For business sites, use of the editor is very important as there will most likely not be a need for messageboards, guestbooks or Poll lists. Indeed all of the Faketown Interiors site is comprised of content pages.  Typically business sites will only need a single admin user to make updates. As your business grows & develops, so too should your site.

Pegs Bar

Peg's is a traditional Irish bar in the town of Faketown. They want a website to advertise their facilities and upcoming sports events that they intend to screen.  Because no two weeks are the same in the sports world, they will need to update the sports page on a weekly basis to show whats coming up for the following week. Clear-Site lends itself very well to this concept of dynamic updates. Of course the management of Peg's can use their website to advertise more than just upcoming sports events. They also maintain a news section which is populated with ongoing activity in the pub such as weekly draws, pool competitions etc. You'll also notice that they advertise jobs for barstaff in the news section. They also give contact & location details on the site.

Faketown Motor Factors

Faketown Motor Factors Online is another great example of Clear-Site in action in business. Their stylish layout succeeds in getting accross the products and services that they provide and the suppliers that they work with. Like most businesses, Faketown Motor Factors receive new stock on a daily business. The flexibility of Clear-Site allows the management of FMF to advertise new products in a quick and easy way. You'll notice the list of suppliers along the right hand side of the home page. These images were uploaded through the upload centre. Not only do the images add colour to the site, they also make the business look more professional and dynamic. In this sample, we have chosen not to link these images back to the homepage of the supplier but this can be done easily if needed.

Clear-Site in the community

Community driven organisations can become far more accessible by having an online home to get across their message. Indeed a website can bring the community closer together.

Clear-Site can be used to act as a community portal. That is to say that you can divide your site into many sections and subsections and assign members of the community to look after their section e.g. you could assign a business man to look after the business directory, a member of the GAA club to look after the GAA notes etc.

There is no limit to the number of pages that you can create in Clear-Site so your site can grow to have as many sections and sub-sections as you need. Therefore your online community can grow to encompass as many different aspects of your real community as possible.

Members of the community can stay up to date with whats going on in their area and participate in the forums and vote on posted topics etc.

Faketown Community Online

This sample shows a whole community portal in operation.  Faketown Online serves as a portal to the town of Faketown and covers sporting organisations, church, business, education etc. As you would expect, this site has been designed to be as dynamic as possible with a messageboard and poll defined. A portal is a typical example of where we can add up users to balance out the workload for maintaining the site. For example in this portal we could assign a member of the local GAA club to look after the GAA section of the site. This would leave the master admin user concentrate on other tasks in the site. You'll notice that this site uses a header image, side image, background image, Smart-Menu & breadcrumbs.

Faketown Community College

Faketown Community college have decided to bring their school online. They want a young fresh look & feel to the site but the functionality must be clear.  The main priority for the website owners is the 'school news' section. This content list will contain all the latest school news items and is expected to be one of the busiest sections of the site. You'll notice a few different names under the filed by section on this list so this is a multi user system. The Notice Board contains lots of rich information such as tables, hyperlinks & images. This would suggest that the person who published this obviously knew how to use the editor well. The site also features a messageboard (forum) and a links section.

Clear-Site for personal sites

More and more people are setting up personal web sites. With the popularity of Weblogs, personal sites allow users host their own blog. 

The editor in Clear-Site allows anybody keep their own personal blog. Of course because you can log in to Clear-Site from anywhere in the world, you can keep your site up to date even when you're on holiday.

Joe Soap Online

Joe Soap has used Clear-Site to create his own home on the internet. Like most personal sites, the pages just contain information on himself and topics of interest to him. You'll notice that this site also features a weblog (blog). This is basically an online diary that the owner can maintain to give the rest of the world an insight into his/her thoughts and opinions. A place where the administrator can have a rant about whatever may be interesting them or bothering them on a particular day. The beauty of Clear-Site is that if Joe decides to go on holiday, he can log in to his admin section from anywhere in the world and update his blog and post new content without having to use client based services such as FTP which may be banned in many internet cafe's.  You'll notice that Joe also keeps a videos section. Even though you can't upload video files to version 1.1 of Clear-Site, you may embed them in your html from other websites such as YouTube. If you go to these sites you'll notice an 'embed' text box beside the video. Copy this text and toggle to the html view by clicking on the 'view source' check box in the editor. Now simply paste in the 'embed' text and save the content.