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Creating a Website for Your Project
The Web offers your program an opportunity to reach a great number of people including potential volunteers and funders. It has replaced the phone book as the first resource most people turn to when they want to find information quickly, so it’s important to make sure that when people search for your project they find you. Although a website may primarily serve as a means of marketing your project and services, it can also be used to help coordinate volunteers, publish time-sensitive information, and assist in recruiting volunteers and fundraising. Specifically, your website can include the following types of information: • Success stories • • • • • • Official announcements Donations Events Volunteer recognition Volunteer information, such as forms and applications Staff changes

By the end of this session, you will be able to: • • • • Name the components that comprise a website Create and edit images for your website using Adobe Photoshop Elements Create and edit HTML pages using Microsoft FrontPage FTP your website to the Internet for the public to view

Creating a Website for Your Project
Notes: Glossary of Web Terminology
Domain Name is the unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots. The part on the left is specific to the name you choose for your website, and the part on the right is the most general such as .com, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net, or country abbreviations such .us or .uk. You can use web companies to register your domain name, like www.networksolutions.com or www.register.com to register your domain name for a fee. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) refers to the process of uploading files (such as your HTML pages, images, documents) to a web server. GIF (.gif or Graphics Interchange Format) is an image format that is bestsuited for buttons and other interface graphics, because it works best at compressing large chunks of color. JPEG (.jpg or Joint...