| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: | |
| Leader: | |
| Group email: | Website Support group |
| When: | As required |
| Venue: | Various locations |
| Cost: | FREE |
The website support group is set up to enable members to help with the administration of our website. Particularly to help and encourage group leaders to create and maintain their own web pages.
Training will be provided.
WE ALWAYS ENSURE YOU ARE USING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY
GROUP PAGES
This website is publicly available on the Internet. It is our u3a's shop window. Your group can be seen by everyone including your members, others in the u3a, and by people who are interested in your topic but don’t know about u3a. It's therefore vitally important that the information is kept up-to-date and is interesting.
Publicise your group
As well as the techniques we'll show you to improve your Group Page, why not share your group on our Facebook group? This is a more visual shop window than we can achieve with the SiteWorks website. Anyone on Facebook can see what we do, especially the many who haven't joined u3a yet.
Add more to your page:
- ensure there is a contact email on the page.
- SiteWorks has a Youtube block to make it easy to add a video to your page.
- add events, these will appear at the bottom of your page under the heading 'Forthcoming Events'. The event will automatically be removed when the date has passed.
- photos of your members being active add interest to your page. You MUST get members permission to put their photo online. What about photos of things related to your group's activity? The Website Team can help find images that do not infringe copyright.
- avoid having too much text on your group page by adding a Post (sub-page) to organise information about a particular meeting, trip, or competition.
Training Resources
To watch the Siteworks Alpha overview video on YouTube, and see a demonstration of editing our site on SiteWorks (a flavour of the WordPress platform); click on the link below.
A comprehensive guide for administrators is available below.
The Siteworks team have put together a comprehensive user guide on the SiteWorks Web Site
A guide to updating your group is available below.
A guide explaining how to use The Media Library.
Siteworks Newsletter
Supported File Types for Media Library in SiteWorks
The Media Library in SiteWorks allows various file types to be uploaded. Below is a summary of the supported formats:
Image Files
| File Type | Description |
|---|---|
| .jpg | Joint Photographic Experts Group, ideal for photos |
| .jpeg | Similar to .jpg, used for high-quality images |
| .png | Portable Network Graphics, supports transparency |
| .gif | Graphics Interchange Format, used for simple animations |
| .ico | Icon file format, used for website icons |
Document Files
| File Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Portable Document Format, widely used for documents | |
| .docx | Microsoft Word document format |
| .xls | Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format |
Audio Files
| File Type | Description |
|---|---|
| .mp3 | Common audio format |
| .m4a | Apple audio format |
| .ogg | Ogg Vorbis audio format |
| .wav | Waveform Audio File format |
Additional Notes
- Video files cannot be uploaded directly. Instead, links to videos hosted on platforms like YouTube should be used.
- It is recommended to convert documents to PDF before uploading for better compatibility.