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Lutheran Braille Workers Assessment

This FREE website assessment is for Lutheran Braille Workers at http://www.lbwinc.org/. It was completed by Luthernet Website Services in order to help those who run the program see what can be done to spread their message more effectively using the internet.

Framework
This website is a bit of a mystery. It does not seem to be a content management system. Maybe Dreamweaver. It appears to have been built in 2010, based on the header, and it looks like websites from that time period.

Mobile-Friendly
This website is not mobile-friendly. According to Google, the website has the following problems:
  • Clickable elements too close together
  • Viewport not set
  • Text too small to read 
 Google has begun the process of ranking websites lower if they are not mobile-friendly. Here's a link to the test: https://search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly?id=FtttwmwaBixAyyvphb1fzg

Other Issues
This website seems to have some kind of ordering system. It appears to be more of a checklist than a shopping cart, which is in line with what could be done in 2010. A new Joomla website can be built to have a shopping cart with a Paypal or even secure credit card checkout. But you could also embed links to Amazon and use the selling power of Amazon to make sales really take off. Luthernet has done all of this.

The website has many categories, but all of them are basically static pages on the website. It needs to have a News, Updates, or Blog section in order to remain relevant and appear to be in business, especially with such an outdated website. Even if it's just an update a month about progress on a project.

One way to update content on the website is to take it from the newsletters that appear to be updated and available in pdf format. The problem with pdfs is that they are not searchable in the same way, so adding them to the website does not help as much as real articles. Copy and paste a few articles each month and done.

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