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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Step 1: Conduct a Content Inventory and Site Audit. A content inventory is a list of all the content on your site. Tools like Screaming Frog can be used to crawl your current site and download the results onto a spreadsheet where each piece of content can be assessed. Content to be relocated elsewhere on your site.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Nonprofit Website’s Navigation

Nonprofits Source

Your nonprofit website houses plenty of important information and resources, from the story of your organization’s founding to your donation page. However, when site visitors navigate to your website, is it easy for them to find exactly what they’re looking for? However, don’t go overboard with the design!

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Anatomy of My Web Site

Robert Weiner

Several friends who have decided to explore WordPress have asked how I built my site. I now know enough to tweak the site myself, but sometimes need guidance from Robyn. Robyn also installed, or pointed me to, widgets that added new features, like the search box and a plug-in that pulls my blog posts from TechSoup into my site.

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Accessibility Widgets and Plugins: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You want to do the right thing and make sure your site is easy to use for everyone. There’s no easy way to say this, but in most cases, it’s better if you uninstall that plugin (or overlay, or widget)— it’s not going to have the impact you intended. Let’s talk about overlays (and plugins and widgets). That’s important!

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Latest Resources to Help Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Victims

Care2

Frogloop compiled a list of resources of nonprofits, companies, and do-gooders who are using their tech-savvy and organizing skills to raise money and help locate missing people. Google’s Person Finder Widget and Crisis Center. This embeddable widget helps people get info about their loved ones. By Roberto Maxwell.

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Website Design for NGOs: 5 Essential Strategies

sgEngage

Ask yourself, “What resources do I need to provide to help my supporters engage with my cause?” Mission and overall goals: All of your branding should point your supporters back to your overall mission and larger goals, so taking the time to include these in your style guide should help focus your site branding. .

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Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts

Byte Technology

And while WordPress has some terrific plugins available that can help you create and manage a comment section on your site, too often unforeseen problems and lapses exist that stymie the commenting process. Regardless of why a site doesn’t foster an active comment board, there are some quick and easy ways to change the issue.

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