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4-H Club Web Site Guidelines |
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4-H Club Web Site Guidelines |
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DO make the title and first heading of your main club web page the same as the name of your club. For instance, if your club is named "Rolling Hills 4-H Club", make the title and first heading "Rolling Hills 4-H Club". The title is enclosed within <TITLE> </TITLE> html tags and will show up as the title of a web browser window when your page is opened.DO state your geographical location -- what city(ies), county, state, and country your club serves.
DO include one or more adult leader contact names and phone numbers in addition to one or more email addresses. Email addresses frequently fall out of date and prospective members often prefer to talk to someone on the phone rather than send an email.
DO list the projects that your club does or has done recently (NOT all the projects possible in 4-H). People who go to your page are interested in what YOUR club is doing.
DO make your page concise and readable. Some pictures are attractive and helpful but dense backgrounds and overuse of graphics (particularly flashing ones) can make your page garish and hard to read.
DO keep your web site up-to-date. Try to make it as permanent and maintenance free as possible. That way people always know where to find your club and you need not work so hard to keep your site current. You should plan to update your web site at least once a year if not more often. If possible, make the frequently changing parts of your web site, like calendars and news & announcements, self-maintaining. For instance, the Rolling Hills 4-H Club uses YahooGroups to maintain a dynamic private area where all members and leaders can update the club calendar and post messages (news & announcements). Furthermore, multiple people in the club have access as moderators, so if one person leaves, others can still maintain the information.
DO submit your club URL to the Open Directory Project once your web site is ready (the above information is complete and no under construction signs remain). This will allow your page to be indexed by all of the major web search engines.
DO include links to your own county, state, and country 4-H web sites.
DO NOT overload your page with links to every 4-H resource known to man. Instead point people to the FourHWeb or to the Open Directory Project 4-H area at http://dmoz.org/Society/Organizations/Youth/4-H/.
DO NOT include personal information, such as last names, addresses, or telephone numbers, for any youth 4-H members on any public portions of your web site. And when listing such information for adults, get their permission first.
DO get permission first from the parents of youth members as well as adults who appear in photos or whose name is listed in any public portions of your web site.
Abbie 4-H Club - Relatively broad and extensive web site.Rolling Hills 4-H Club - Simple 1 page web site with private interactive area.
Use a dictionary and spell checker. Avoid jargon and abbreviations. Edit for consistency. Keep it simple -- it will save you lots of work later.Read and follow the California 4-H Computer Corps Web Design guidelines.
Follow the official 4-H Name and Emblem Guidelines.
Read the Design Guidelines for The National 4-H Web.
Make your web page(s) accessible to people with disabilities. Check out Bobby the Accessibility Checker and the W3C Accessibility Guidelines.
The 4-H Name and Emblem on this web page are protected under 18 U.S.C. 707.
This page is maintained by the Rolling
Hills 4-H Club.
Please send us mail telling
us what you think about this page and how we might improve it.
Last revised: June 2, 2001
