BRANCH WEBSITES Tips for building and maintaining sustainable sites

PLANNING YOUR SITE How much time do you have?

PLANNING YOUR SITE How much should you do?

PLANNING YOUR SITE How much should you share? Is it useful to your audiences? Are there privacy/online safety issues? Do you want to maintain it?

LAYOUT CHOICES Homepages: Static [Blog Style]

USING WORDPRESS Compose, Edit, Link, Upload

COMPOSE WYSIWYG editor Similar to most editors online, like Demo

COMPOSE Text editor Allows more control; html Demo

EDIT Change and delete Demo

LINK External and embedded links External pages Images, YouTube videos Demo

UPLOAD Add items to Media Library Documents: PDFs, [.Docs,.TXT] Images:.jpgs,.gif,.png Audio & Video 3 MB Max Demo

STYLE GUIDE Maintain Consistency For example: No ALLCAPS No underline except for links Title conventions, color use, link rules

SCANNABLE TEXT Be brief and well organized. ¼ - ½ as many words as in newslett er

IMAGES Effective sites use images. Original photos, preferably dynamic Creative commons photos