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Hello FTH staff,
I have been working on editing and revising a variety of things on our website www.visaliatoastmasters.org and have moments that I come up against some weird issues. Most of them I keep on working on and can fix them. However, when setting up the second half of this year's agenda, I have a few of the roles that it wants someone to sign up for each time they are filling that role. For instance, the timer has three different times that they share the times, yet two of them show up as wanting the role filled by someone; the initial time and the third time. This happens for multiple roles.
Also, since I am making adjustments, and I am not super tech-savvy, I would love your input on our site and any suggestions on how I can improve it.

Michael Crile

Please read the documentation on the agenda all your questions are answered there.
Look for repeated and grouped roles
support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/agenda-index

Michael, Your website is bright and pleasant on the eyes. Congrats on your club awards. I believe those awards are unique to your district and for that reason you might include one sentence to explain what they are or how your club won them.

In my personal opinion, the primary goal of any website is as a marketing tool and to encourage guests to our meetings. Strictly from a marketing-tool standpoint, I would you move your meeting information up, closer to the top so guests see it right away. Perhaps move the words of the month and history to another page. Keep the HOME page clean and concise - focus on a message to welcome guests and encourage them to visit. Give them a clear and specific invitation to visit. I would remove the club number and the word "club" as they don't serve your goal or message.

Your Meeting Information page is clear and concise. Here, my only suggestion is about eye-candy. Keep your fonts to 2 or 3 types, sizes and colors. Maybe a photo of your physical venue to add more interest.

Your Meet Our Members page is shaping up nicely. Continue to encourage members to publish a bio so that guests can connect with current members.

You might be missing opportunities with your calendar. An interesting calendar reeks of an active club. Include meeting themes on the days of your meetings. Add executive committee meetings to encourage member's interest and attendance. Include a URL for online meetings. Include interesting district workshops that guests might be interested in. Recognize member awards when they are earned. Remember that calendar events published when you are signed in as ADMIN are in a different color than when you are signed in as a member - adds interest.

On the Public Downloads page you might include older (2019) newsletters in a folder to better feature your more current ones. Great newsletter, by the way!

On the Club Officer page, I'm not sure there is a reason to have the page name "Club Officers" and a title in text "Current Club Officers." For a consistent look, I would use the same font and font size as is used on other pages. This page would benefit from a photo. Now that the legacy program is retired, I'm not sure about the continued use of discontinued educational awards with officer names. Just use the Pathways awards.

Love the idea of an About Toastmasters and Pathways page. I might steal this idea from you. Perhaps the history from the home page could be moved here.

Good use of piggy-backing on Toastmasters International resources. Great use of your social media outlets.

Today you are showing over 7,000 unique website visitors as of today's date. That would indicate to me that your website counter has not been reset. Reset it and note the number of monthly guests. If you don't have website visitors then keep tweaking your site to be higher in search engines. If you are getting website guests but no guests at meeting, then tweak your messaging. Use Google Analytics.

This is a really good site. Even if you use none of these ideas you are still well above average based on the sites I've seen. Good job. Every club needs a great site, especially this year! Good luck! Thanks for the opportunity to see and evaluate your site.