Vottiv Campaign Websites gives your campaign a professional, mobile-friendly website in minutes — no web designer, no separate hosting company, no technical setup. Answer a few questions about your campaign, and Vottiv writes your site's content and builds every page for you. Then customize anything you like in a drag-and-drop editor and publish when you're ready.

Campaign Websites is available to every Vottiv organization. Open Creative → Website from the sidebar to get started.

What's Included

Professionally designed templates — six distinct looks, from bold and modern to classic and stately, all fully customizable.
Written-for-you content — Vottiv drafts real page copy from your answers about your campaign, so you never start from a blank page.
A free web address — every site gets a yourcampaign.vottiv.site address, and you can connect your own domain.
Volunteer signups and contact forms — submissions land right in your Vottiv dashboard and are matched to your voter file automatically.
Fast, secure hosting — hosting, HTTPS, and security are handled for you.

What It Costs

Building and editing your website is completely free. You can create your site, customize every page, and preview it without paying anything. Publishing and custom domains require Website access. You can subscribe separately for $29/month, or Website access is included at no extra cost with either Voter Contact Package option:

One-time Voter Contact Package: Website access is included through December 31, 2026.
Monthly Voter Contact Package: Website access is included while the package remains active.

When package access ends, the website is suspended instead of automatically charging you. Your content is preserved, and you can restore the live site by starting the $29/month Campaign Website subscription.

Creating Your Website

Open Creative → Website in the sidebar and click Get started. A guided setup walks you through five short steps while a live preview of your actual site updates beside you as you type. Your answers save automatically in your browser, so it's safe to step away and pick up where you left off.

Campaign — your candidate name, the office you're running for, why you're running, and your district or community.
Message — your top issues (up to six, each with a title and where you stand), your background and experience, and what you want visitors to do on your site (volunteer, donate, learn your positions, attend events, or get in touch).
Content — everything here is optional, and everything you add makes your first draft more complete: a candidate photo and a hero background photo, gallery photos, endorsements (each quote appears on your site word-for-word — the AI never writes or edits endorsement quotes), whether to include a volunteer signup page (on by default), and a public email, phone number, and social media profiles for your Contact page and footer.
Design — pick a template, choose campaign colors from curated palettes (or set your own brand and accent colors), and upload your logo.
Launch — claim your free site address (the part before .vottiv.site) and review your summary.

Click Generate my website and Vottiv writes your pages. Your site is built only with sections you have content for — if you skip endorsements, events, or photos, your pages simply won't include those empty sections (you can always add them from the editor later). You'll land on a full preview of your finished site — every page, in your template and colors. From there you can:

Customize — open the editor and refine your site for free.
Publish now — subscribe and go live immediately.
Preview your site in a new tab — see it exactly as visitors will.

The Website Editor

The editor is a full-screen workspace. On the left is your list of pages; in the center is your site, editable by dragging sections around; and across the top are your design, navigation, preview, and publish controls. Changes save automatically — you'll see a brief "Saving..." indicator as you work.

Pages

Every new site comes with a full set of pages. Home, About, Issues, Contact, and Privacy Policy are enabled from the start — the Privacy Policy page is always on for every new site, comes pre-written with editable compliance content, and is linked automatically from your site's footer (it doesn't take up space in your header menu). If you added endorsements or gallery photos during setup, or kept the volunteer signup page, the Endorsements, Gallery, and Volunteer pages start enabled too. Everything else — Events, News, Donate, and any page you skipped — is built and waiting; flip a page's toggle in the sidebar to turn it on when you're ready. You can also click + Add Page to create your own pages, and delete any page you don't need (except your home page).

Only enabled pages appear on your published site, in your navigation options, and in search engines.

Building with Blocks

Pages are made of blocks you can add, remove, reorder, and edit:

Hero — your big opening banner, in six styles from full-bleed photo to minimal oversized type.
Rich Text — free-form formatted text with inline images.
Issues Grid — your platform, as cards, lists, tiles, or a checklist.
Candidate Bio — photo plus biography, image left or right.
Endorsements — quotes with names and titles.
Call to Action — a heading, message, and button in five styles.
Photo Gallery — masonry grid or swipeable carousel.
Events List — upcoming events with dates, locations, and links.
Contact Form and Volunteer Form — see Forms & Signups below.
Newsletter — an email-signup style call to action pointing at the service of your choice.
Social Links — icons for Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
Video — embed a YouTube or Vimeo video with an optional caption.
Divider — visual spacing between sections.

Anywhere a block takes a photo, just drag an image in or click to upload (JPG, PNG, WebP, or GIF, up to 5MB).

Photo sizing: Framed photos in Split and Portrait Hero blocks, Candidate Bio blocks, and both Photo Gallery styles keep the image's original shape. Landscape, portrait, and square uploads are shown without forcing them into a preset frame. Full-width Hero backgrounds and endorsement headshots still use their designed crops so those layouts remain consistent.

Navigation Bar

Click Nav Bar in the top bar to control your site's menu. Add links to any enabled page or add external links, reorder them with the arrows, and rename them inline. Toggle Show as button on any item to highlight it as a button in your header — most campaigns use this for Donate.

Footer

Click Footer to set up the bottom of every page: your logo or site name, an optional tagline, footer links (mirror your navigation or build a custom list), social media links, and your copyright line. Your Privacy Policy page is linked from the footer automatically while it's enabled. The footer is also where you set your "Paid for by" disclaimer — most campaigns are legally required to include one, so don't skip it.

Design: Templates, Colors, Fonts, and More

Click Design to open the design panel:

Template — switch between six looks: Momentum (sleek and energetic), Bold & Modern (dark, high contrast), Classic & Trustworthy (light and editorial), Heritage (stately and patriotic), Grassroots & Warm (rounded and approachable), and Summit (minimal with monumental type). Switching templates changes fonts and styling — your content stays.
Colors — twelve curated palettes, or set custom brand and accent colors.
Typography — ten font pairings, previewed in their real fonts.
Shape — corner style for buttons and cards: Sharp, Soft, Rounded, or Pill.
Logo — upload light and dark versions. The file dialog shows all image files; Vottiv accepts JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, or SVG files up to 5MB. Your site name is used if you don't have a logo.
Search & Sharing — your site title and description for search engines, a favicon (the little browser-tab icon), and the image shown when your site is shared on social media.

Previewing Your Site

Click Preview anytime to open your site in a new tab, exactly as visitors will see it. Use the Desktop / Mobile toggle to check how your site looks on a phone — headings resize, sections stack, and the menu collapses into a mobile menu automatically.

Analytics, Pixels, and Custom Code

Organization administrators can open the Integrations tab on the Website dashboard to add campaign-owned analytics and advertising tools. Vottiv supports managed fields for Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, and Google Ads, plus verification tokens for Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Google Ads conversion labels can be assigned separately for page views, contact and volunteer submissions, donation clicks, newsletter clicks, and outbound-link clicks.

Saving and Publishing

Integration changes are saved as a draft. They do not change your live site until you click Publish or Update Site. Tracking code never runs inside the Vottiv dashboard, editor, onboarding preview, or website thumbnail; it runs only on the published website. If a tag causes a problem, remove or correct it in Integrations, save the draft, and publish again.

Custom Code

For another provider, use the Advanced Custom Code fields to place code at the end of the page head, start of the body, or end of the body. Each field accepts up to 100 KiB. Custom code is public on your published site, so never paste passwords, API secrets, private keys, or private campaign data. Custom code can break or redirect a site, so add only code from a provider you trust.

Vottiv shows warnings when the same provider may be installed both through a managed field and through Google Tag Manager or custom code. These warnings do not block saving, but you should remove duplicate installations to avoid double-counted activity.

Privacy and Global Privacy Control

The Integrations tab reminds you to review your editable Privacy Policy page when analytics, advertising, or custom code is configured. Vottiv suppresses its direct Meta Pixel and Google Ads calls when a visitor enables Global Privacy Control. Google Tag Manager and arbitrary custom code load exactly as configured, so the campaign is responsible for privacy behavior inside those tools.

Forms & Signups

Your website can collect volunteer signups and messages from visitors — and unlike a standalone website builder, everything flows straight into Vottiv.

Contact Form

Collects a visitor's name, email, subject, and message, with an optional phone field. You choose which fields are shown and which are required.

Volunteer Form

Collects name, email, phone, and zip code, plus two customizable multiple-choice sections: "How would you like to help?" (canvassing, phone banking, event setup, social media, yard signs, and any options you add) and "Availability". Every option is editable, so tailor the choices to what your campaign actually needs.

Consent Checkboxes (Important for Texting Compliance)

Both forms let you add consent checkboxes — for example, an agreement to receive text messages from your campaign. If you plan to text the people who sign up, carriers require specific opt-in language on any page that collects phone numbers, and your site needs a privacy policy. See Registering for 10DLC for the exact wording requirements.

Consent checkboxes are never pre-checked, and Vottiv permanently records exactly which disclosures each person saw and whether they checked them — your proof of consent if you're ever asked for it.

Where Submissions Go

Messages tab — contact form submissions appear on your Website dashboard with unread indicators. You'll also get an email notification for each new message.
Volunteers tab — volunteer signups appear with a Matched badge when Vottiv finds that person in your voter file (matched by name, zip, and email), so you instantly know who they are. Export the full list to CSV anytime.

Forms include invisible spam protection, so you shouldn't see junk submissions.

A Note on Your Donate Page

The Donate page ships with a donation call-to-action whose button you point wherever you collect donations — your Vottiv donation page or any other donation platform. Edit the button's URL on the Donate page (and consider adding Donate to your navigation bar with Show as button turned on).

Publishing Your Site

When your site is ready, click the publish button in the top bar:

Subscribe to publish — if Website access is not already included with your active Voter Contact Package, this takes you through checkout first ($29/month).
Publish — your first publish puts the site live at your .vottiv.site address.
Update Site — after you're live, edits stay in draft until you click Update Site. Your live site never changes until you push an update, so you can work on changes safely over days.

You can take your site offline anytime with Unpublish — your content is kept, and republishing is instant.

Your Free Web Address

Your site lives at yoursubdomain.vottiv.site. You can change the subdomain from the Domain tab (3–63 characters; lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens). Heads up: changing it takes your old address offline immediately, so update any links you've shared.

Connecting Your Own Domain

With active Website access you can connect a domain you own (like www.yourcampaign.com):

On the Domain tab, click Connect Domain and enter your domain.
Vottiv shows a table of DNS records to add at your domain registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, etc.) — one points your domain at Vottiv, one verifies you own it, and one enables HTTPS. Each row has a copy button.
Add the records, then watch the status move from Waiting for DNS → Securing (SSL) → Live. Vottiv checks automatically every 30 seconds, or click Check status.

Using Cloudflare for your DNS? Set your CNAME records to DNS only — click the orange cloud next to each record so it turns grey. Leaving a record proxied (orange cloud) will stop your site from loading with a connection error.

SSL certificates (the padlock in the browser) are issued automatically — no setup on your end. You can remove a custom domain anytime; your site stays reachable at your .vottiv.site address.

Managing Your Subscription

The Billing tab on your Website dashboard shows whether Website access comes from a standalone subscription or an active Voter Contact Package. Standalone subscribers can cancel, reactivate, and manage payment details and invoices there. If Website access ends, your site is temporarily taken offline without deleting its content; it returns when you restart the $29/month Website subscription or activate a qualifying Voter Contact Package.

Troubleshooting & Good to Know

My custom domain is verified but the site won't load. This is almost always the Cloudflare orange-cloud issue above — set the CNAME records to DNS only (grey cloud).
I changed my footer or site title but the live site didn't update. Site-wide settings reach your live site the next time you click Update Site.
My video block isn't showing. The Video block supports YouTube and Vimeo links only.
Why don't I see an Events or Endorsements section on my new site? Vottiv only builds sections you gave it content for. Add the block from the editor (or enable the page from the sidebar) whenever you're ready — the layouts are still there waiting.
Can I turn off the Privacy Policy page? It starts enabled on every new site because pages that collect contact info and text-message consent generally need one. You can edit its content freely; if you disable it, the automatic footer link goes away too.
Can I have more than one website? Each organization gets one website.
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Questions? Reach out to support@vottiv.com — we're happy to help you get your site live.