The Webminister is responsible for the web properties and calendar associated with the barony including this site!
- Badge
- Current
- Lady kolfinna in kyrra Ottarsdottir (she/her)
- Deputies
- [ none ]
- Email
- webminister at bryn-gwlad.ansteorra.org
- Term End
- Aug 2022
- I’m New! What do I do? (11/4/2020)
- Yup, you guessed it! Here’s this week’s Activity Line Up! (11/3/2020)
- Things have moved! And hopefully information is easier to find! (11/3/2020)
- Did you know?! Subscribe directly to the website for notifications! (10/5/2020)
- Watch our live streams of Minecraft all day! (10/3/2020)
- Join us for morning court in Discord! Or, catch the live stream on YouTube (10/3/2020)
- Populace Popular Picks! Vote on your favorite build plots before 4pm on Saturday! (10/2/2020)
- Are you excited?! Join us for Populace hangout tonight in Discord (9/29/2020)
- Excited about our event but, struggling with Discord? Let us help you! (9/25/2020)
- Familiar with OBS? Interested in attending a class or two? I need you! (9/19/2020)
There are two main reasons we maintain, and want to continue to maintain, a reliable, dynamic website:
- The website is a means for us to serve the needs of our local branch, to inform, educate, and communicate with the populace.
- While electronic lists, social media platforms, and other mediums are extremely valuable to disseminate information to a large group of people in a timely manner. Not everyone has access to other platforms, nor does everyone wish to have access to other platforms. The website serves as a central platform that everyone can access regardless of whether or not they have accounts.
- Make regular updates to the Bryn Gwlad website
- The website is a dynamic, constantly improving project
- Information often benefits from a read-through, reorganization, or rework
- Forms sometimes need to be updated or fixed
- New pages need to be created, pages sometimes can be combined, or menus reogranized
- A good practice is to set aside a small amount of time every week to review a few pages of the website. Doing this will ensure that you review all pages every month or two
- Maintain the Bryn Gwlad Calendar
- Updating activities, adding activities, removing activities
- Encourage members to use the forms on the website to submit information so you can have a single place to look for update requests
- Have timely responses to inquiries and communications from Bryn Gwlad Officers, Kingdom Webminister, and requests from the populace
- Aim for acknowledgement within 24-48 hrs and action/plan of action soon after
- Monitor pages for policy compliance
- This includes both pages authored by the Webminister as well as pages authored by other officers or members
- Monitor the cross-platform integrations associated with the webmin email
- Website -> Email List
- Website -> Facebook Group
- Website -> Discord
- Calendar -> Meetup
- Facebook Group -> Discord
- Other duties and special projects that may be assigned or requested by the populace or other officers
- Our website should make it easy for people to…
- Find information about local activities
- Find information about local guilds or groups
- Know who to contact if they have questions
- Find ways to get involved
- Pages should be used for…
- Information that will not change
- Collecting information related to a specific topic (FAQ, officers, events, etc)
- Posts are best used for….
- Short term information (activity updates, sharing educational resources, announcements, etc)
- Editorial content
- Use simple, easy-to-understand language
- Maintain easy to read, uncluttered pages
- Too much information on page or section obscures the page’s true message
- Using abbreviations or SCA terminology?
- Define it
- Link to the Jargon Page
- Link to another page that explains the term
- Keep in mind that the web site may be the first point of contact for people otherwise unfamiliar with the SCA and its specialized vocabulary.
- Keep all your pages as uniform as possible
- Nothing confuses a visitor faster than obscure navigation and drastic visual changes from one page to the next
- Do not use flashing text, overly large fonts, overly small fonts, or things inappropriate for a professional web site
- Maintain a high contrast between text and background
- WordPress has built-in accessibility features, so that makes things simpler
- Obfuscate all e-mail addresses by placing spaces between names and “at” “(@)” signs, spelling out “at”, or any other method which prevents automatic e-mail address farming
- Spell-check and grammar-check all content
- Check your links regularly and ensure they are not broken
When in doubt, reach out to the Kingdom Webminister or other webmins for advice.
- Are you an officer, deputy, committee member, or guild leader?
- Consider adding content to your officer page — educational info, links to resources, information about getting started
- Make posts about upcoming activities or useful resources
- If you don’t want to do it personally, nominate a deputy or representative who can work on it for you, OR Contact the Webminister
- You want to work with the Webminister and learn the ropes?
- Contact the Webminister and get started now!
- Are you a member of the populace who has resources, articles, or other SCA or educational info you’d like to see added?
- Reach out to the Webminister or your local officer!
- We can make posts, edit pages, and make sure that the information you want to see on the website gets in the right place
- Domain
- The web address in its simplest form (i.e. yahoo.com, SCA.org, netscape.net)
- Bryn Gwlad domain is https://ansteorra.org
- Group pages/Group sites
- Web sites or pages for a specific group in a Kingdom, Orders and recognized Guilds
- Host or Hosting
- The company that is maintaining the servers on which web pages are stored
- The Bryn Gwlad Website is hosted by WordPress
- Main page
- The index page or the first page that people see when visiting a web site. This does not include splash pages
- Official site/page
- A web site recognized as the web site for that branch, group or office (recognized by the Kingdom or local branch)
- Splash page
- A greetings page. Sometimes these include animations or a choice of options to select what kind of detail a user would like to see on the web site
- Web page
- One page of web code
- Web site
- A collection of web pages gathered together to represent an idea or theme