website report brad coffield wpwvc/acrl website manager june 2015
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Website ReportBRAD COFFIELD
WPWVC/ACRL WEBSITE MANAGER
JUNE 2015
Recent Changes Steffi Gillespie asked me in January if I would take over as Website Manager
New website platform!◦ Steffi did a lot of work comparing various website creation platforms and then
I put a few through their paces.◦ Looking for something that could help us modernize our site.◦ Needed to be easy to use such that if someone with a tech background
needed to they could manage the site.◦ Weebly was the found to be the best platform for us. Expenditure recently
approved.
Vision for the new site
1. Updated look. Updated functionality.
Usability > Aestheticsbut
aesthetics still
RWD(responsive web design)
2. Eggs meet basket.
Internal/External Chapter Business
Consolidated file managementMultimedia contentDiscussion boards
Blogetc.
Support. Promote. Enable.
3. Push organized content.
Leverage the ‘blog’ in fun ways
Most content on site funneled into blog
New content automatically syndicated to Twitter and RSS
Enables METADATA
