Walgrave Website Development By Mike Bailey Alison Evans-Smith

 Already had a website.  Add more helpful information for community use.  We looked at various design templates before agreeing on our current design. HOW DID WE GO ABOUT SETTING UP OUR SITE AND DECIDING CONTENT?

 After investigating wordpress.com we decided to use wordpress.org as wanted more flexibility.  Lots of support – Youtube – Wordpress blog  We used Thesis Theme.  Formatting was a problem for us  Regular use and notes  buddy up if possible OUR EXPERIENCE OF USING WORDPRESS AND SUPPORT

 Facebook  Twitter  Conclusion DOES OUR VILLAGE ENGAGE WITH THE WEBSITE MonthTotal visitsUnique visitspages per visittime per visitbounce rate % February (from12th) March April May

 Adding comments to the blog pages.  Improved use of Facebook and Twitter – Looking at social plugins RSS feeds.  Investigate present plugins and make sure we are using them fully.  A plan to encourage people to interact more with the website. Getting out to groups, trying to get the younger people in the village involved. WHAT’S NEXT ?

 Build your own business website  BackupBuddy  Timely Calendar –  Google Doc Embedder ExampleExample  Google xml sitemaps google-sitemap-generatorgoogle-sitemap-generator  Nextgen for galleries nextgen-gallerynextgen-gallery  DisplayBuddy for Slides  TinyMCE Advanced tinymce-advancedtinymce-advanced ADD-ONS AND PLUGINS USED