What is professional website?¶

Appearance:

• Clean cut
• “Easy on the Eyes”
• images, media, color scheme
• White space
• Suitable and innovative design

Usability:

• Internal navigation: make sure your post titles are on the URL to be easier to find
• easy to get info: Do not have a parent page more than three clicks away from the home page, avoid next and previous buttons
• successful web experience for your users

1. Footer links
Lightword plugin

2. Navigation Plugins

Breadcrumbs Nav XT- plugin that provides you with links that follow your users’ navigations. ex: Home >> Who we are >> get involved on top of the page they are viewing

WP page navi plugin
WP page numbers plugin
or change the language of the Next and previous buttons to “next post”

3. Sidebar
Have related posts, most viewed pages and most popular posts on the sidebar
Category icons plugin

Site map: Google XML sitemap

Look into multipage toolkit

4. No broken Links
Broken Link Checker plugin
Monitors links in posts, pages, blogroll and custom fields
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Accessibility:
Fast Download
No video that plays right away

Content:
know your target audience, use their language
no misspellings
clear and concise

Professionalism¶

How can GIIP guarantee more professionalism?

1. feedback from non-techie people
Test navigation on websites

2. More Pitches
helps people become more comfortable

3. More tech Guest speakers: John and Miles
What is it like to be a professional in web development? How did GIIP help?