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Non-techie here, so not sure how to best answer my host guy's question on if we are going to "fully integrate" CiviCRM with our public Website or have it be separate. To start with this year, we want to be able to have "Subscribe to Email" form and "Event Registration" forms on our public website so the info submitted from these forms gets input into CiviCRM/CiviEvents. Our constituents (we don't have members) will not have access through our web site to change their profiles etc. That will remain an internal administrator task.  So is this is what is meant by "fully integrated"? I can't seem to find a forum question/answer to this. Thank you in advance...

Thanks so much for the quick response, Donald Lobo! Just to clarify, CiviCRM is automatically fully integrated? If so, I wonder why it was a host question... (rhetorical question to myself, and may attempt to get an understandable answer from the question source)

Hi

So what your host is asking is if you need civi installed on your main site or if it should be on a sub domain one.

If they aren't any technical difficulties (eg. you have a custom theme that does things that don't play well with civi) or you need super high security or plan on a gigantic number of contacts, I'd suggest to put it "fully integrated" on your main site.

Because even if you "only" expose to the visitors the registration to an event or newsletter today, you might want tomorrow to start fundraising, do a petition or publish a who's who or need one of the other features.

We have only a handful of clients that have civi on a separate site:
- two that put civi on an extranet (security reason)
- one because they did weird things on the theme of the site that didn't work with civi
- the rest because the main website is not on Joomla or wordpress or drupal.

If he has a specific concern and reason NOT to put it fully integrated, you should, it probably doesn't have an impact either way for the amount of work and cost.



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