Why does my Association need a website?
To state your presence
Make the existence of your association known to the search engine, online maps, and professional directories.
Introduce yourself to the Tribe
Before anyone joins your professional association or an interest group they would need to know who you are, what is your mission and vision, and what activities and resources you offer.
Serve your Members
Promote events, share news updates, post important information, make available useful resources.
What Information and Features are commonly found on an Association’s website?
Missions and Vision
News Updates
List of Board Members
Member Resources
Events
Information on how to join
History
Donation Form
Membership Subscription
Job Offerings
Advertisement Opportunities
Mailing List
Building your Association’s Website with WP Help 360
The development of a new website can be a joyful and exciting experience. It has been broken down into simple steps that make the process smooth and easy to follow. Completing the steps will provide your association with a clean, functional, simple, and healthy starter website. You will be able to continue adding content and features to it as time goes by. A website as a project is never finished. There is always a need for updates, changes, refreshes. Rest assured, you will have my support for these as well.
- Purchase a domain name and WordPress hosting plan. There are many great providers with affordable rates available like Bluehost.com or GoDaddy.com. If you already have a domain name and reliable hosting you can move to step 2.
- Set up a merchant payment account if you would like to collect donations, sell event tickets or membership fees on the site. We support Stripe, PayPal, Authorize, Braintree and many others.
- Completes the Association Information Questionnaire. This information will be used to create the content for your website.
- Once the questionnaire is complete, WP Help 360 schedules a 30 min call to discuss the design details and expectations for the website.
- Give us about 2 weeks to complete the building of the website.
- WP Help 360 schedules another 1h meeting to review the final draft of the site and make any changes.
- The website goes Live!
How much does a website cost?
The hosting and the domain registration cost about $150 per year, depending on the provider. WP Help 360 estimates the website development time at about 6h which is $390. Any time spent above the 6h mark is billed separately.
What happens after the launch?
WP Help 360 will perform regular updates, maintenance, and SEO review on the site. We can also make content, features and styling updates for you at any time. You always have full access to the site, if you wish to make any changes to it yourself.
Photos by Fox and Rene Asmussen