When Your Organization Needs More Than One Website
NetRaising Can Create a Hub-and-Spoke Website Community for You
NetRaising has been creating and maintaining feature-rich hub-and-spoke website networks since 2005. Some of our larger networks connect dozens of websites to each other, and allow for both centralized and local website administration, and include benefits such as the ability to push and pull content to either the hub or spokes.
Our hub-and-spoke website networks allow multiple websites to share the same hosting account and a single installation of content management software (CMS). This creates real savings in the costs of maintaining the CMS, adding future website features, consulting, training, and hosting.
Hub-and-spoke website networks work well for national or regional organizations that need multiple localized websites, and for education systems.
NetRaising’s largest website network was built for San José Unified Schools, and was a fully bilingual project that served both the district’s main site and dozens of school websites with a responsive design that was customized for easy use on iPads, as well as desktop and mobile.
We’ve also built one for the Oklahoma Blood Institute (with a single hub and two spokes sites for Texas and Arkansas), and for a regional nonprofit that has since dissolved.
Sometimes an organization may have such distinctive web audiences and programming, that it needs multiple websites even though they may be managed by a single person. In this kind of implementation, the hub and each spoke act as a stand-alone website to visitors, while sharing a common administrative area within the CMS.
One current example of a hub-and-spoke project created by NetRaising is npprofessionals.com, which has two “sister” sites, npjobboard.com, and atoz-staffing.com.
If your organization has considered consolidating its many websites into one solution or is about to add a few websites to its inventory and would like to simplify things as much as possible, please contact us and we’ll talk you through the many options you have. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)