These are some ideas:
1. I would begin looking at other chapters and see what they are doing. Use that to get some ideas, borrow some icons and images (i.e., white carnation, badge, seal, etc.).
2. See how they structure their content (Picture Gallery, Officers, Memember, Socials, etc.).
3. Check with your officers and see what content they want to make public. Some sisters may not want their name and pics posted on the web.
4. Determine where you want to host the site: geocities, angelfire, and tripod all host numerous sorority sites. If your university supports hosting greek organizations you can preferably use them. T
5. Design your web site with regard to content and plan how you are going to get good information and who will review what you will publish. You dont want to make a stupid error (i.e., inadvertently mispell the word Greek as Geek).
6. Start small and keep it simple. There are excellent web publishing tools (i.e., Frontpage, Dreamweaver) and sites that provide simple site building aids (angelfire, tripod, and geocities). Use whatever works for you depending on your web publishing skills.
7. Build your site and test it before you make it public.
8. Determine who is going to maintain the site. What happens when you leave. If you look on the web many greek sites are woefully out of date. There should be a position designated in your chaper so the site is reasonably kept current, othewise forget the project.
9. Go live! Publish your site. Notify your national chapter, other chapters around the country, your university and local greek orgs, greekchat, greekzone, yahoo, and other large directories about your site.
10. Review the content periodically to see what's useful and what's not being viewed by visitors. Your host site can provide you with page-flip stats.
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