Instructions Regarding 4-H County Shows on the Website
Staff instructions regarding 4-H County Shows on the Extension Website
These instructions were sent out directly from the COMMs team regarding the creation of subpages on unit sites unique to each county 4-H shows.
Subpages will NOT be created for County Shows, instead Counties can create Events on the website.
Moving forward our plan will be:
- Continue to use your county
4-H program page for major documents if you wish.
- Create EVENTS for
each element of your 4-H show where you can MORE EASILY include
- Registration forms
(upload to your website and link in the “links” section)
- Showbooks (upload to
your website and link in the “links” section)
- Photos
- Times /Dates/contact
information
- Create some short go
links to each event. For example, go.illinois.edu/gallatindog21 which send
folks directly to the event for the Gallatin County Dog Show in 2021.
- Why this way?
- Well, the show is an
event; it naturally fits there.
- There are more things
you can do on the event page vs a basic page.
- It’s probably the
easiest content block to add on the website.
- Your content won’t get
lost at the bottom of the page.
- You have a direct URL,
unlike the tabbed sections on your local pages.
So what are the best practices for creating your event.
- First, when you name the
event BE SURE to include the County FIRST. DO THIS: 2021 Gallatin County
Dog Show DON’T DO THIS: Dog Show (Remember, every single event created on
the website shows up to the world on the global site. If you just say Dog
Show, no one will know whose show it is and it may confuse the public.
- Use a SPECIFIC day of
your show, not a range of dates. DO THIS: July 3. DON’T LIST THE WHOLE
SHOW: July 1-5. (Remember, the event disappears off your website after the
first day of a multi-day event. No one will see it after the first day)
- Use a short go URL that
makes sense to point to your event (Remember, when you market the go link
, don’t include the "https://" DO THIS:
go.illinois.edu/gallatindog21 DON’T DO THIS: https://go.illinois.edu/gallatindog21
- The links section is not
JUST for registration; link to important documents; the state 4-H page for
the project information, etc.