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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