Library Website Manager Essentials
New to website management? Want to improve your skills or learn about website accessibility?
Library Website Manager Essentials has website training modules organized in a step-by-step process for building essential skills for managing a library website, including WordPress/Divi basics, accessibility practices, content workflows, and tools for maintaining effective, compliant, and user-friendly library web content.
What's new:
Creating a new blog post for my website
A step-by-step guide to creating a basic blog post, plus basic description of how blog posts appear on various pages of a website via Divi modules.
Descriptive Links
Learn how to properly display hyperlinks using embedded descriptive links and buttons.
Using Canva to Create a Screen Reader-Friendly Infographic
Learn to use tools in Canva to create a basic screen reader-friendly "Canva website" to publish your infographic or newsletter.
Website Accessibility Presentations and Resources
Links to tools, resources, and past presentations for website accessibility.
Using SharePoint Document Library – advanced skills
Once you begin be comfortable with using SharePoint to create and link documents on your website, there are some additional features that can enhance your workflow and experience.
Using SharePoint to Post Website Documents
Basic overview of how SharePoint (or other cloud storage) can be used to display read-only versions of Word documents instead of uploading PDFs or other documents to the WordPress media library.
2026 Website Planning
These exercises will help you enter 2026 with a clear, manageable plan for website content and accessibility using small, realistic steps.
Semi-Annual Review – Cleaning Up Your Website
Time to clean up your website! Here are two checklists for working through your site and making sure your users get the best experience possible.
5 Key Steps to Maintaining Accessible Website Content
Your responsibilities to maintaining accessible website content broken down into 5 basic steps.
How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Watch these "persona" interviews from the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative demonstrating how people of different abilities use assistive technology to navigate a digital world.
Accessibility Update – Fall 2025
Fall 2025 state of accessibility update.
Training Calendar Version 1
Plugin for calendar: Simple Calendar
Source for calendar: Google Calendar
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- April 15, 2026
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Website 201: [Just] Beyond the Basics
April 15, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Regular meet-up for those with basic website skills who want to become more proficient and efficient at managing their website. Come prepared to log in to your website, share your screen, and ask your questions.
Monthly on the 3rd Wednesday, 11 AM - 12 PM
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- April 16, 2026
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Website 201: [Just] Beyond the Basics
April 16, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Regular meet-up for those with basic website skills who want to become more proficient and efficient at managing their website. Come prepared to log in to your website, share your screen, and ask your questions. Monthly on the third Thursday at 1 PM.
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Website Office Hour: Using the Accessibility Checker plugin
April 16, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Topic: Using the Accessibility Checker plugin
As we roll out the member library website accessibility updates throughout 2026 and 2027, one of the key features we will be adding is the Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker plugin for WordPress. This session will give an overview of how you can use this plugin on your site to review pages, understand key errors that you can address, give examples of errors that require assistance from the LEANWI team, and, how once the full featured plugin is installed, you can report errors and request help from the LEANWI website team.
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- April 21, 2026
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Website Accessibility Learning Group
April 21, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Website Accessibility Learning Group meets on the third Tuesday of the month, 11 AM - 12 PM.
This group will focus on learning about and determining specific steps LEANWI website library staff need to take to come into compliance with the new Title II (public entities) ADA requirements for accessibility of websites and mobile devices (https://www.ada.gov/resources/small-entity-compliance-guide/).
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- May 11, 2026
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- May 13, 2026
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Website 201: [Just] Beyond the Basics
May 13, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Regular meet-up for those with basic website skills who want to become more proficient and efficient at managing their website. Come prepared to log in to your website, share your screen, and ask your questions.
Monthly on the 3rd Wednesday, 11 AM - 12 PM
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- May 14, 2026
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Website 201: [Just] Beyond the Basics
May 14, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Regular meet-up for those with basic website skills who want to become more proficient and efficient at managing their website. Come prepared to log in to your website, share your screen, and ask your questions. Monthly on the third Thursday at 1 PM.
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Training Calendar Version 2
Source for calendar: Google Calendar embed code
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In-person website training interest survey
Contact
Erica Brewster
Data and Technology Services Consultant
Wisconsin Valley Library Service
Brendan Tuckey
LEANWI Technology Support Consultant
LEANWI
websitehelp@librarieswin.org
Monthly Office Hours
Additional online and in-person trainings announced via email.
If you are not receiving office hour or other website emails, please email websitehelp@librarieswin.org to be added to the distribution list.