1. Polish Up Your New Chapter Website

2. Austin Williams
Coordinator, Communications

3. Before We Get Started
Make sure you have your website and website admin pulled up
To access your admin, add “wp-admin” to the end of your site url. Example: thefirsttee.org/wp-admin

4. Why Are We Doing This? 90% of chapters have holes on their website
Chapters are missing out on opportunities to convert potential parents & donors
To help chapters with items they may be confused about or missed out on how to update

5. Website Checklist Link to Donation form Link to registration
Volunteer button
Redirects
Address in footer
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Partner logos
Update placeholder pages
Update Feature Images
Broken links/images
Social Icons
Much more!

6. Are You Losing Donations?
2 ways users can donate on your website
Link your donate button on your homepage
Update info on donation landing page (Example: thefirstteegreaterhouston.org/donate)

7. Register & Volunteer
Are your Register and Volunteer buttons linked? Use the Utility menu!
Have you updated these landing pages? Don’t leave users looking at a blank page

8. Home Office Map
Donate, Register and Volunteer buttons through Home Office Map
It’s important that these pages on your site have content, because users go to this map daily looking for a chapter near them.
Home Office will be using these buttons to track user activity

9. Don’t Neglect, Redirect
When people Google your chapter, they may be getting links to your old site
Avoid user confusion and redirect all important pages using the 301 redirect tool on your admin dashboard
Admin: Settings>Simple 301 Redirects

10. Let’s Get Started! What’s Your Chapter Address?
Many still have the home office address or no address at all
Admin: Client Settings tab

11. Terms & Privacy
Just fill in the blank with your specific info, it’s that easy!
Admin: Appearance>Menus>Footer Utility

12. Who Sponsors Who? Placeholder Sponsors
Admin: Pages>Homepage>Partners
Placeholder Sponsors
Insert your own local sponsors or delete

13. Placeholder Pages Why’s my page in Latin?
Staff and Blog pages were given placeholder content until you could update with your content
Not using Blog? Get rid of it

14. That’s a Nice Image!
Beautify your website pages with featured images on the top of each page
Select “Featured Image” at bottom right when editing a page
If photos aren’t the exact size the bottom will be cut off
Minimum width is 1430px
Minimum height is 715px.

15. Don’t be Anti-Social
Engage your audience beyond your website by updating your social media icons
On the “Appearance” tab go to menus>social navigation

16. Do a little Clean Up
Look over your website pages a few times, there may be broken links or images you might have missed
Maybe even have a trusted volunteer or parent do it for you!

17. Questions?

18. Blackbaud Support
Blackbaud is there to help with any problem that may arise during your website maintenance.
Visit our Website Support page on the intranet for info on how to contact them.

19. Austin Williams Lauren Taylor Coordinator, Communications
Lauren Taylor
Senior Coordinator, Communications