Guide: User’s Manual for Kiwanis Club Web Site Templates.doc

Creating a club Web site has its challenges - especially if you go the "do-it-yourself" route. Kiwanis International only coordinates hosting services for clubs with a subscription to the club management tool. Those subscribers still have to manage their own content though. Clubs that want to create their own site will need to secure the services of a private Web hosting company. You will still need to manage your content unless you find an additional volunteer or hire someone to assist you with that responsibility. Tom Moriarity has some good suggestions if you scroll down through the thread on this link: http://community.kiwanisone.org/media/p/2685.aspx

This template is really designed for someone who wants to jump start the creative process but is familiar with the basic methods of creating a web site. If, however, this is all Greek to you (or maybe Greek looks less confusing) you may need to either find someone who does understand it to help, or spend some time learning about what it takes to put up a site. This is not a high-tech project, but one which does require someone new to the field to understand some concepts involved. There are other options available for clubs which don't require anyone to learn how to do coding or post web pages. I have included a discussion of these issues on the kiwanis.info site, at http://www.kiwanis.info/wwwsite.htm. If you'd like, see if that's helpful.

Why doesn't Kiwanis simply put a template and put it on the Google sites manager  that we can use. That would make our lives simpler. The Circle K club has a template on Google sites.

Thanks, Rscano, for the suggestion of additional DIY templates. There are hundreds of directions Kiwanis could go with more DIY options and templates. At this time, we plan to focus our resources on the current features available so that we can support them properly. The do-it-yourself template is just that, and therefore, has limited support. However, anyone with a little Web design know-how can utilize the graphic standards manual and available graphics to create a template to use and share with other clubs. I suspect that is what a Circle K club did as we have no record of creating a template for them. Everything you need to create a template is likely at KiwanisOne.org/logos.