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Charity websites: help with 5 common problems

A curated guide with resources to help you find out if your website is working ok and what to do - whether it needs improving a little or a lot.
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Websites Unlocked toolkit

Comprehensive toolkit for small charity website optimisation. Includes tools, strategies and videos. By Media Trust.
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Simple way to check your online guides and information pages are useful

How to be sure that you have written guides that are useful to as many people as possible and test what you create.
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Accessibility: how to identify 3 common barriers on your charity’s website

Learn how to use colour, navigation and labelling to make your website or digital service more accessible.
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How to minimise the environmental impact of your website or digital service

Key climate and environmental considerations for planning, designing, managing and procuring digital services.
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About pages: how to create an effective one for your charity’s website

Sharing your organisation’s story. Best practice for content creation. Calls to action. Using multimedia to bring your message to life. 
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Website design critique #5: Catalyst

Examples of good and bad design on the Catalyst website at 20/03/23. With advice and suggested improvements from content design and user experience design experts.
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Website design critique #4: Reach Volunteering's Volunteer Library

Examples of good and bad design on a charity website. With advice and suggested improvements from Kat Quatermass, content designer at Neontribe.
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Website design critique #3: Dementia UK

Examples of good and bad design on a charity website. With advice and suggested improvements from Shivy Das, product designer at SIDELabs.
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Why readability is important for your charity

How to write readable content, so people who use your charity’s services can get what they need from it.
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Charity websites: 9 tips for a user-focused, content-first homepage

Get tips on how to design a user-focused homepage. See insights from a survey of 30 charity homepages.
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How to create web pages that help people solve problems themselves

Static advice content helps people understand what they need to do. Learn how to make it useful.
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Iterative development: its philosophy and benefits

Why you should develop digital services incrementally and test often with users. Avoid big project plans, work in small cyclical stages. Part of agile working.
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Website design critique #2: Reach Volunteering

More examples of good and bad design on a charity website. 2 parts, 9 points, with suggested improvements from content design and UX specialists.
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Website design critique #1: Quaker Social Action

Examples of good and bad design on a charity website. 16 points, 15 minute video walkthrough, full crit video, and more.
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Why good content design is important for your charity

What is content design? Making your website easier to use with good content. Examples of good and bad content design.
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How to test your website with your users in 8 steps

The difference that user testing makes. Why watching what people do trumps what people say. How to test usability. Examples from charities.
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How to plan a new website for your charity

Your website as a supermarket. Key ingredients in your plan. 4 questions to ask yourself. 7 planning steps.
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Planning a new website

What to do before you start a new website project. Building your own website or getting a specialist to do it. An NVCO guide.
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Why accessibility matters on your charity's website

Why charity websites need to be accessible. How to make them accessible. how to deliver it.
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Design Hops online

Free online workshops, which offer the first step, or ‘hop’, into digital service design and good websites design for charities.
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How NoCode can help your charity website and digital services

NoCode tools give you superpowers and make it easier and quicker to build and integrate software functions when designing.