1. BRANCH WEBSITES Tips for building and maintaining sustainable sites

2. PLANNING YOUR SITE How much time do you have?

3. PLANNING YOUR SITE How much should you do?

4. 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?

5. LAYOUT CHOICES Homepages: Static [Blog Style]

10. USING WORDPRESS Compose, Edit, Link, Upload

11. COMPOSE WYSIWYG editor Similar to most editors online, like email Demo

12. COMPOSE Text editor Allows more control; html Demo

13. EDIT Change and delete Demo

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

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

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

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

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