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Wednesday October 03, 2007 |
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Time to review your website
Have you looked at your website recently?
Do you have "news" that is more than a month old on the home page?
Some counties are doing a great job posting news stories and keeping their site updated with fresh content. Some counties have only one program area with updated content and some counties sites haven't changed anything on their site since it was rolled out two years ago.
What should be updated on your county web site?
On the Home Page
- Special announcements
- Keep short to avoid pushing the rest of the content out of sight
- If you want to share a lot of information, create a new page and link to it
- Remove by deleting the content if there are no 'special announcements'
- Message (gray box)
- This is another place to put a brief message
- Make sure it has current and correct information
- Localize, Localize, Localize!
- Image and Caption
- A thumbnail image and a short paragraph
- May have a link to another page
- Great for grabbing visitors' attention
- Events
- Announce all of your meetings and activities
- The next two upcoming events will appear on the home page
- News Stories
- Write the articles you would if you had a column in a local daily newspaper
- If you do write a column for your paper, post it here, too, to get more mileage out of it.
- The last two edited stories will appear on the home page
- These are syndicated through RSS feeds (or click on "RSS" at the bottom of your county pages) let your local papers know about your news feeds. This may be an easier way for the news people to keep up on what you are doing and provide them with ideas for stories.
On the Category Pages (i.e. Field Crops, Community, etc.)
- Message (gray box)
- This is a place to put a message about what you do in your county in related to this category
- Make sure it has current and correct information
- Localize it!
- Image and Caption
- A thumbnail image and a short paragraph related to this category
- May have a link to another page
- Great for promoting an event or program
- Events
- Announce all of your meetings and activities in this category
- The next two upcoming events in this category are displayed
- Events can be assigned to multiple categories
- News Stories
- The last two edited stories in this category are displayed
- To remove, you need to delete all the stories ever posted in this category or post two new stories
- Featured Links
- Links to other web pages or site related to this topic
- Make sure they are appropriate for your county
- Localize! Remove links that aren't apropriate for you county and add links that are appropriate.
Create NEW Content
- You can create as many new pages as you like.
- Link to them from any place on your county web site!
Permissions
If you don't have access rights to edit your county site, work with your County Extension Director. All CEDs have the ability to grant staff members editing privileges to edit the county web site.
Getting Help
If you have any questions or need help updating or adding content to your county site, please contact your Information Management Agent.
Posted by jdorner
( Nov 19 2008, 10:42:58 AM EST / Oct 03 2007, 09:37:37 AM EDT )
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