A routine for keeping the site up to date
A choir's site goes stale in predictable places. This is a checklist for whoever looks after it; every item links to the page that explains the job. Skip anything your site does not use.
Before the season starts
- Clear away last season's concerts: When a concert is over, and starting a new season
- Add the new concerts, each with its date, poster and prices: Add a concert
- Give each concert its ticket link: Posters, prices and ticket links
- Put the concerts in order, next one first: Reorder, hide, sell out, edit or delete a concert
- Check the wording above and below the concerts: The concerts section of your home page
- Check the Tickets page, including any season subscription: Your Tickets page
- If you sell tickets on your site, set them up for each concert: Set up tickets for a concert
- Update the headline and buttons at the top of the home page: The top of your home page
- Update the promo boxes: Promo boxes on your home page
- If you are recruiting, update the Auditions page: Your Auditions page
- Announce the season, or auditions, with a pop-up notice: Show a pop-up notice
- Put the season's rehearsals and concerts on the members' schedule: Add your weekly rehearsal once
- Add new members and remove those who have left: Add, change, disable or remove members
After each concert
- Archive the concert to Past Events: Archive a concert to Past Events
- Or hide or delete it: Reorder, hide, sell out, edit or delete a concert
- Add the best photos to the gallery: Upload photos and videos to the gallery
- Bring the new photos to the front: Organise the gallery
- Switch off a pop-up notice that was about this concert: Show a pop-up notice
- Check the hero buttons and promo boxes no longer point at it: The top of your home page and Promo boxes on your home page
At the end of the year
- Update your leaders, their photos and biographies: About your choir and its leaders
- Re-read the About text and the figures at the top of the home page: About your choir and its leaders and The top of your home page
- Add a director who has left to the Past Directors page: Your Past Directors page
- Check the Past Events page for posters without dates: The Past Events page
- Re-read your own pages, such as your history and repertoire: Add a page of your own
- Review the Donate page: Your Donate page
- Check who has access to the admin panel: Add, change or remove an admin
Every so often
- Open Messages and deal with anything waiting: Contact form messages
- Check your email address, phone, address and social media links: Contact details and social media
- Check the footer: The footer
- Check the sign-off on your emails: The sign-off and footer of your emails
- Look at the site in a private window, on a phone as well as a computer, to see what visitors see: How your public site is put together
- Check which parts of the site are switched on: Switch pages and features on or off