Keep Britain Tidy Community Toolbox Launched

The Community Engagement Toolbox is an online resource commissioned by Keep Britain Tidy (EnCams) to provide a range of tools for Local Authorities, Community and Voluntary Groups and Registered Social Landlords to help engage and encourage people to improve their local environment. Keep Britain Tidy (EnCams) is an environmental charity that campaigns directly to the public and are best known for their Keep Britain Tidy campaign thats been running for over fifty years.

To provide the development of this website and bespoke content management system, KC3.net utilised its existing acms content management system as a starting point and customised this to meet the Clients requested requirements. The Community Toolbox includes a Resource and Document Library containing various documents, reports and guides for the target audiences. The Resources are organised alphabetically and also by target audience. The Resource Library also highlights the Top 10 Resources recently accessed.

The website is hosted in house at Keep Britain Tidy and KC3.net provided a custom installation of the website and content management system onto their servers in Wigan followed by testing of the system to make sure all was in proper working order.

The Bespoke Content Management System provided is a customised extension of our acms content management system and provides the following functionality:

KC3's Accessible Content Management System (acms) is the basis for future updates to the site. Since acms is a web-based content management system, there are no compatibility issues with existing internal systems. Content authors simply log in and can begin editing the content as they see fit. Most content management systems do not comply with accessibility standards but acms enables the site to continually meet these standards. The acms is also search engine friendly and supports meta content for search engines.

acms Benefits

- acms is web based: simply log in and begin editing your website.
- acms is easy to use - acms has a "WYSIWYG" editor so that "What You see is What you Get"
- acms is compliant with DDA Accessibility Guidelines: one of the first such CMS systems available.
- Supports upload of new images & documents & generation of new pages/sections
- Multi-Lingual Support
- Dynamic News and Calendars/events
- Dynamic Navigation and Auto Site Map
- Products/services database support and eCommerce enabled
- Configurable user roles
- Extranet/Intranet/Forums/Internal Messaging
- Drafts, Preview, Rollback
- acms is scalable and can integrate into your other systems