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Updating Banner Images 

Why Bother Updating?

Your homepage is the first thing most of your families and other website visitors will see.  New banner images are a signal that your site has something new. It invites them to keep looking, to explore and to come back regularly.

We want to keep them coming back. When they do, families learn more about what your site has to offer. When they get comfortable with your site, they’ll stop calling and emailing you for basic information that they can easily look up online.

How Do I Update My Banner?

  • Step 1: Find Your Picture. You’ll need to find a big picture and crop it. See the How Do I Find Pictures section for tips on finding  and cropping photos. You’ll crop your photo to 1800 pixels by 800 pixels.
  • Step 2: Get your link ready. Don’t know what to link to? See the Best Practices section for ideas.
  • Step 3: Go to your homepage, click on Design mode and follow this tip sheet. Here’s a video explainer.

What are Best Practices?

A few tips to give your families and students great homepage experiences:

  • Change banners every couple months. It keeps your site fresh and interesting.
  • Link your banner images to keep visitors in the habit of clicking on them. In addition to news stories or events on your calendar, you can link to static content, such as the about page, lunch menu, course catalog, etc.
  • 2-3 banner images give your homepage variety. Not many people click after a third one.

Plan?

We all get busy, and planning takes time. But it will save you a lot of stress and time in the long run.

Take 15 minutes now to jot down things you’d like to highlight over the next six months. Add an approximate date you'll need to update it.

Later, share it with your school leaders and see if they have anything to add.

Schedule time on your calendar. In your calendar item, include notes, like “link to the X page, write story, find photos. Start by scheduling a half hour per banner image. 

Posted by angela.dice On 11 October, 2016 at 5:16 PM