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Bayel Alumni Association
A site for a school alumni association that holds its scholarship applications, reunions and announcements. The committee updates the content itself.
Bayel Alumni Association is the alumni body of a high school. It funds scholarships for students, organises reunions and keeps former students in touch with the school.
What an association site has to solve
An association site exists to sign up members, collect donations and show the work being done. These are linked. People who see the work join, and members donate.
So "Membership" and "Donate" have their own menu headings instead of being buried on a sub-page.
What the site does
Corporate and association introduction
A press room for news and announcements
A photo gallery of reunions and events
A membership section
A donation call
A WhatsApp line
Why the gallery is its own heading
This is the most visited section on alumni sites. People look for themselves and for people they know, and a photo from a reunion gets more attention than the announcement of it.
The gallery also does the most to win new members. Text cannot show that these people still get together. Photos can.
The association updates it themselves
The committee are volunteers with no budget for technical support. So they post announcements, upload photos and edit text from the admin panel, without needing any technical knowledge.
When the committee changes, whoever takes over can use it the same way. The most common problem in organisations like this is losing touch with whoever built the site.