Website Tutorials

We have held a series of 4 webinars dealing with different aspects of editing Club websites, and videos of these, plus bespoke video tutorials on specific editing skills have been put on YouTube. The links are below, with any additional information needed. The tutorials are listed first with their descriptions. The webinar videos are at the bottom of the page.

Website tutorial videos

If there is a topic that you need to learn but isn’t featured included in the video tutorials below, please let us know (sally@sigbi.org).

How to Edit your Website

Website Basics

Finding your way around the SIGBI Website.

This is for all Members to use to find out where to locate the information they need.

Website Admin Basics

A tour of your Club website’s dashboard. This does not cover adding pages/posts or editing.

Making Changes to your Club Website Homepage

How to make your Club Homepage your own. Even though there is a default appearance for Club Websites, there are things you can do to personalise your Club Homepage.

It includes how to add your own Facebook feed to your website rather than the default SIGBI Facebook feed.

This video is 20 minutes long.

Handling Images

This video contains everything you need to know about images – the sizes needed for each use, such as featured images, headers, inside a page/post; how to upload and apply.

NOTE: this video refers to a size for featured images on posts which is now incorrect. The correct size should be at least 900 pixels (wide) by at least 500 pixels (height).

See the “Useful Software” section, for information on a program useful for batch processing photographs for use in Carousels.

Note this video is 40 minutes long.

Using Links, Uploading PDFs and Embedding Videos

This video explains how to use links, upload PDFs and embedding videos into your website including Best Practice.

Note this video is 25 minutes long.

Password-Protected Pages and Editing your Club Menu

This video explains how create a members’ area on your website using password-protected pages, and how to edit your Club Menu.

Note this video is 16 minutes long.

Using Tables

This video explains how to insert and update tables on your posts/pages. Tables are useful for displaying items in columns such as your Diary of Events or Club Officers.

Note this video is 20 minutes long.

Creating a Video from PowerPoint Slides and embedding on your website

This video explains how to convert a PowerPoint Presentation into a video, upload it to YouTube and embed it in your website. You can include a video that is already embedded into your PowerPoint Presentation.

Note this video is 6 minutes long.

Social Media Best Practice

How to use Social Media to boost visitors to your website, and why it is important to have both a website and social media.

This video is one hour long. The last 10 minutes are concerned with putting your own Facebook Feed onto your Club pages rather than the default SIGBI Facebook Feed, and how to put “Follow us on . . .” social media icons (up to five can be added) onto your pages. It also shows you how to share a post on your social media platforms. For this reason the same video is shown in both the Best Practice and the Updating your Website sections of this page.

Not covered is putting your Twitter feed on your pages instead of Facebook. A short additional video on this will be produced shortly.

Best Practice Videos

These videos are on how to improve the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) of your website and how to write copy that will engage audiences. There is also best practice regarding Social Media.

What is SEO and Why does it matter

An introduction to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and why it is so important to make sure your website has high visibility to search engines such as Google.

This video is 25 minutes long.

How to upload and optimise a Blog Post

How to ensure that your blog post or webpage contains the information that Google and other search engines will use to rank the post or page.

This video is 35 minutes long.

What should you be blogging about?

Why do you need to blog? How do you choose your subjects? How do you write for SEO?

This video is 50 minutes long. It makes reference to the Content Calendar (available below both as PDF and Word:

Blogging Training Webinar – 14 June 2020

A webinar was held on 14 June 2020 for training on writing blogs for the SIGBI Website. The invited attendees will be writing blogs for the main SIGBI Website and have been allocated specific blogs to do. Club Communication Officers/Website Editors were not invited, but the recording of the webinar is below, as it contains a lot of useful information. it goes into more detail than the blogging videos above.

There are some accompanying documents to go with these videos, that are listed below:

Blogging For Beginners (full presentation used in webinar as a PDF)
SIGBI Content Calendar 2020 v3 (full SIGBI Content Calendar in WORD)
SIGBI Content Calendar 2020 Blog Briefs (Simplified Content Calendar in WORD)
SEO Crib Sheet (checklist for optimising your blog)

Why not use this webinar as training for anyone who writes blogs for your Club Website?

Part 1 is 40 minutes long, but skip to the 14th minute to skip the introductions.
Part 2 is 40 minutes long.
Part 3 is 1 hour long.

Blogging Training Webinar Part 1 – Blogging Basics

Blogging Training Webinar Part 2 – what topic and tone of voice

Blogging Training webinar Part 3 – optimising your blog and answering questions

Social Media Best Practice

How to use Social Media to boost visitors to your website, and why it is important to have both a website and social media.

Not covered is putting your Twitter feed on your pages instead of Facebook. A short additional video on this will be produced shortly.

Useful Software

If there is a piece of software that may be useful to Club Website Editors to prepare material for uploading to the website, then any videos relating to use of that software will be put into this section.

Irfanview – Image batch-processing software

Editing a single image is straightforward, using Microsoft Office Picture Manager, but sometimes you may want to edit a lot of images to be the same size and the same name (with a number to differentiate), so that they can be used in a Carousel. This video explains how to download and use this freeware software.

This video is 13 minutes long.

Snipping Tool

A free piece of software with Windows which allows you to take a screenshot of your computer screen and annotate it. Useful for issuing instructions.

This video is 10 minutes long.

Windows Photos

A free piece of software with Windows 10 which allows you to make simple edits to your videos. It only allows you to trim the start and end of a video, and split a long video into two or more pieces.

For more sophisticated video editing see the Video Editor training video below (also free with Windows 10).

This video is 10 minutes long.

Windows Video Editor

A free piece of software with Windows 10 which allows you to edit videos, including joining two videos together, inserting a slide at the start and end and even inserting pictures in the middle of a video. You can also add background music or recording your own narrative.

This video is 23 minutes long.

Google my Business Webinar

Thank you to everyone who attended the Google my Business Webinar on 19 November 2020. The recording of the video is now available. It has been split into three parts, so that you don’t need to re-listen to sections that you don’t need:

Part 1: What is Google my Business?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIPqyLBgfg
Part 2: How to set up and administer your Google my Business Account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPpVf6Uk70
Part 3: Questions asked on the day from attendees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j5IoPVSH3g

Website Webinar Recordings

Where possible, you should use the video tutorials to learn how to update your website. However, those who attended the four website webinars may like to be reminded of the content of the webinars, so the recordings are below. They have been split into manageable chunks rather than have one hour recordings.

We regret that due to technical issues the recording made of the first webinar, on 23 April 2020 was not suitable for publication, so is not included below.

Webinar held on 30 April 2020

This webinar has been split into three sections, which are below:

Webinar 30 April 2020 Part 1

Webinar 30 April 2020 Part 2

Webinar 30 April 2020 Part 3

Webinar held on 7 May 2020

This webinar focussed on using the different editors (backend and classic), and has been split into three sections, which are below:

Webinar 7 May 2020 Part 1

Webinar 7 May 2020 Part 2

Webinar 7 May 2020 Part 3

Webinar held on 14 May 2020

This webinar focussed on updating club menus, best practice with regards to creating, deleting and updating pages and posts, and answering as many questions as possible raised by Club Website Editors.

Webinar 14 May 2020 Part 1

Webinar 14 May 2020 Part 2

Webinar 14 May 2020 Part 3

Webinar held on 4 June 2020

This webinar focussed on updating the Club Home Page, Best Practice, and answering questions raised by Club Website Editors.