New Website Pre-Planning

Identify major likes/dislikes, potential changes you would want to make.

• • Identify content you have that you actively use.
  • Identify content you can eliminate in a new build.
  • Identify features you feel you are missing or “things you would like to do” but can’t with your current site.

Here is a list of current LEANWI websites. You do not need to limit yourself to these designs.

Know and be prepared to contact or provide your contact information for your Domain Name Service (DNS) provider. The place where your domain name is registered.

If you need to have permission from your library board or other admnistrators, be sure to secure that so we can begin working as soon as we have availability.

Collect the following:

• All of your logo files. If you don’t currently have a logo or plan to make a change, this is a good time to begin designing one.
• Pictures you’d like to see on the website.
• Pictures of the outside/inside your building.
• A list of pages you want (no particular order here) and the information you need included on them.
  • Home
  • About
  • Library board
  • Programs
  • Contact/hours
  • Online resources
  • History & genealogy
  • Other specialty pages (community resources, building projects, Friends of the Library, etc. Look at other websites for ideas)
• The name and email contact of the staff member(s) who will be your website manager(s)

The more work you do in advance and the more you are able to free up time to work with our builders, the quicker the build process will go!

Once we have a new site built, we will arrange time to train staff who work on the website. Then you will be invited to regular monthly trainings to keep you up to speed on the lastest website management developments.