1. Walgrave Website Development By Mike Bailey Alison Evans-Smith

2.  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?

3.  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

4.  Facebook  Twitter  Conclusion DOES OUR VILLAGE ENGAGE WITH THE WEBSITE MonthTotal visitsUnique visitspages per visittime per visitbounce rate % February (from12th) 2912583.674.4643.73 March8014544.237.242.95 April6223484.257.2342.77 May5433093.464.5946.41

5.  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 ?

6.  Build your own business website www.byobwebsite.comwww.byobwebsite.com  BackupBuddy www.ithemes.comwww.ithemes.com  Timely Calendar – www.time.lywww.time.ly  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