Suggestions for Page Content

Some ideas for content that we've not provided a sample page:

• Action! Include your own action priorities. Consider posting a list of what you've done: letters to the editor? statements before city councils? Also include links to state and national action pages.

• Positions. List your local positions including links to regional, state and national positions.

• Selections from your VOTER. Maybe not all of the articles, but include the ones that are most interesting for the public to read. See Best Practices below.

• Message from your President.

For some general tips on building a good League website see Create a Great League Website: Carol's Top Ten List (PDF file)

If you would like to see some great examples of actual Web pages built by Leagues around the country, go to Building a LEW Web Site: Beginning Steps. You can send an email to the webmaster of any of these sites if you have questions about their experiences when building their sites.

Should you just copy calendar events and other content from your VOTER or other printed sources into a page on your site? Generally, no.

People rarely "read" web pages. Here's a summary of "writing for the web" which we copied from the source linked within (DO click on the link):

Writing for the Web means making content

• short,
• scannable, and
• to the point (rather than full of fluffy marketese).

Web content should also

• answer users' questions and
• use common language rather than made-up terms (this also improves search engine visibility, since users search using their own words, not yours).