Websites
Articles about websites and website development
- Writing Online: Best Practices
- Guidelines, tips, and hints for writing more effective web content. This is a wide-ranging article, but we hope it will help whether you are writing for a web page, email newsletter, action alert or anything else that will primarily be read online.
- Organizing Your Filesystem
- Some tips for how to keep your website's filesystem organized and free of unused or out-of-date items.
- Alternatives to Adobe
- Open-source, free and low-cost alternatives to widely-used Adobe software products, which have become increasingly difficult to get donated.
- How to Generate Website Traffic
- Information about how to generate web traffic and get more people to visit your website.
- Preparing Images for the Web
- Important things to know about preparing images that can improve the performance of your website.
- Sites we like that offer quality low-cost images
- A picture is worth a thousand words and thanks to many low cost and free photo websites building a library may cost you only pennies. Here are some great websites to scour if you can’t seem to find that iconic flower-growing-out-of-your-hand image you need for your website.
- Introducing Google Analytics
- Google Analytics is a free, powerful tool for tracking a host of interesting web statistics such as: number of unique visitors, time spent on pages, keyword searches used to find content on your site, and more!
- Creating Pages Effectively for Browser Compatibility
- Different browsers display webpages slightly differently from one another. There isn't one standard for HTML that all browsers conform to, so part of good web design and writing for the web involves checking your work in more than one browser.
- Tips for Using Visual Editors
- Here are some easy, but powerfully useful tricks when using visual editors on the web
- Recommended Online Video Hosting Services
- Want to put streaming video on your website? The easiest way is usually to use a video hosting service to handle the dirty work for you. Here are some recommended free and low-cost providers.
- Online Donation Tools
- An overview of the online payments landscape and specific recommendations targeted at Northwest environmental organizations. We also include a matrix that compares leading online donation tools. Our recommendations are also likely to be appropriate for many other small nonprofit organizations.
- Domain Name Registration Recommendations
- Our recommendations for domain name and DNS hosting providers that will save you money and make sure you have maximum flexibility for the future.
- A Great Model Privacy Policy
- Our friends at Sightline Institute have written a website privacy policy that is a model for grassroots advocacy organizations.
- Resizing Pictures for the Web with Shrinkpictures.com
- Shrinkpictures.com offers a handy web-based tool for shrinking large digital pictures down to an appropriate size for use on a website.
- Search Engine Optimization Strategies
- Search engine optimization tips for nonprofit websites
- Registering a Domain Name
- Why and how to register an Internet domain name for your organization.
- Recommended Web, Email and Domain Name Hosting Providers
- Updated and refactored into three articles.
- Want Better Website Stats? Get Google Analytics!
- Google Analytics is one of the best website stats tools out there, and it's totally free. Every organization with a website should sign up for an account today.
- Online Fundraising Resources
- There's a tremendous amount of material out there about online fundraising. Much of it repeats itself. We've read through a ton of stuff, and found our favorite short tips and longer workbooks.
- Why the Web Matters
- The web can be a powerful communications tool but integrating it into your organization can be a challenge. One of the most important things to understand is how to fit a website into your organizations communications infrastructure and day to day operations.
