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This is it! This is what you’ve been training for!
You’ve learned to:
- Make a new blog post for your website and schedule it and set it to expire;
- Create images and add and manage media in your media library;
- Clone/copy a page (or know how to send a help ticket to websitehelp@librarieswin.org to request a page be added);
- Modify the layout of a row in Divi;
- Add a Divi module and edit module content;
- Publish a webpage;
- Add or remove items from your websites primary dropdown menu.
Now it’s time to put it all into action for the big SRP push.
Adding a Summer Reading post and page to your library website and then updating and managing the content merges multiple individual website skills into one complete whole.
Summer Reading Checklist - Big Picture
As you get going with your Summer Reading Program, you’re going to need to know the following things, whether or not you put the information on website:
- Who:
- age categories (children, teen, adults)
- What:
- registration forms
- activity trackers
- Where:
- library
- off site?
- When
- beginning/end dates
- event dates
- How…
- do they sign up?
- do they participate?
- do they stay up-to-date?
Once you have your program planned, you can start on marketing.
Summer Reading Blog Post - Checklist
Every library with a website and a summer reading program can have at least a blog post to promote and direct library users to more information on participation.
To begin, develop your blog post checklist, available in Word, Google Doc, or PDF format:
- Post title
- Post content (text)
- Who, what, where, when, why, how
- Categories
- Featured image 795×500 px
- Date post appears on site,
- Date post should be removed from site
- Documents to download
- Links
For detailed information on a blog post check list, see How to create a standard blog post with a featured image.
Then see below for instructions on how to add your Summer Reading post to your website primary (dropdown) menu.
Summer Reading Program Webpage checklist
Ready to take the next step in promoting your summer reading and creating a SRP webpage for your site?
You can create your own webpage by building or cloning another page from your website, or you can request a copy of the Summer Reading Program demonstration page be added (email websitehelp@librarieswin.org) to your site for you to customize.
Now, for what you will need for your webpage:
- Image:
- Banner 2048×616 px
- CSLP (or similar)
- English, Spanish optional
- Banner 2048×616 px
- Text:
- Summer program content
- Documents (downloads)
- example: Registration form
- example: Calendar
- Links
For step-by-step instructions on how to customize the modules in the Summer Reading Program Demo page, watch Website Office Hour – Summer Reading on Library Websites starting at 15:19.
Then see below for instructions on how to add your Summer Reading post to your website primary (dropdown) menu.
Adding your Summer Reading Page or Post to your Website Menu
You do not need to make a webPAGE in order to add it to your website menu. You can add a Post.
Once you have published your Summer Reading page or post, follow these instructions or watch the Website Office Hour – Summer Reading on Library Websites starting at 34:04.