Villages Webmasters Guild

April 15, 2025, 4:00 pm, Online via Zoom.  “Online Membership Meeting and Elections”

May 13, 2025, 7:00 pm, Montgomery Center.  “Using Participants Database and MailChimp”

August 12, 2025, 4:00 pm, Montgomery Center.  “SmugMug Photo Albums”

November 18, 2025, 4:00 pm, Montgomery Center.  “TBD”

Past Meetings”

July 16, 2024, 4:00 pm, Vineyard Community Center.  “Sharing Google Sheets and Forms in WordPress”

October 17, 2024, 4:00 pm, Sequoia Room, Cribari Center. “Envira – Creating and Sharing Photo Galleries”

February 18, 2025, 4:00 pm, Cribari Conference Room.  “Basic Website Maintenance and Troubleshooting” (Hybrid – in person and on Zoom)

 

 

(Help us Choose priorities and topics for the Club – Take this survey NOW)

Potential Club Activities / Training Topics:

• Website design – the Art of Websites, the Science (Technology) of Websites
  • Basic website structure and elements like Pages and Posts, Media Library, plugins
  • Creating or translating a club’s logo, identity, and “style” to your website
  • Basic design elements, Themes, and the layout of a “good” website
  • Basic Page and Post creation and editing, display of pdf documents
  • Basic menu design and hierarchical menus
  • Basic troubleshooting
• Making your website effective and the hub of your club
• Making it easy for non-technical people to contribute content to your website (e.g. Postie)
• Sharing the workload of creating content and managing your website
• Comparing Website CMS systems – advantages/disadvantages (e.g. WIX, Google Pages, WordPress, Drupal, others)
• Converting a WIX or Google Pages website to a VWG WordPress Website
• How to Use WordPress block editors (like Gutenberg)
• How to use:  MailChimp, Participants Database, Envira Gallery (photos), Google tools – Calendar, Forms, Docs, Sheets
• Integrating third-party tools and content into your website (e.g. the Google suite)
• Club website tools and maintenance
• Performance Measurement and Tuning for a Website
• Bootcamp – How to set up a new club website using Villages Webmaster Guild tools and shared hosting
• Managing the Backend of the VWG shared web hosting
  • Control Panel operations
  • Multiple website subdomain concerns and management
• Making your website search tool useful and efficient
• Using CSS to customize the look and feel of your website
• Where to find good free WordPress training online
• Potential for live streaming video of club events and post event video highlights
• Automating ordering of Club accessories (e.g. hats, shirts, visors, wine glasses, etc.)
• How to inspect a webpage and how to emulate the best design ideas and utilize public domain content for your website
• Troubleshooting your Website – real-time solutions during club meetings

The Mission of the Villages Webmasters Guild is to create a pool of webmaster talent available to support Villages clubs and each other, and to provide shared website services to lower the cost and complexity of club websites