CBOnline - Making your website user friendly

enadmin, 22nd February 2013
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Is your station’s website as functional as it could be? Is your live streaming link so buried you need more clicks than a shearer to find it? Does your station’s engagement with social networking amount to a deleted MySpace account?

The CBOnline Project collects information on the activities of the community broadcasting sector, helping inform the public about the valuable role the sector plays in our communities and encouraging the exchange of information within the sector itself.

CBOnline has a series of tips on how to make your website as user-friendly as possible, available here. CBOnline has also provided some examples of features commonly found as part of a community radio station website.

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