Website and Netlify
A simple site, kept current by text
For organizations without a web person, Grantkeeper can look after a small website itself: build it, check it, publish it and change it when you text.
Text it like this
Fictional example.
What it builds
Small, fast sites made of plain pages: home, events, programs, how to give (with a link to your secure giving page), how to visit and contact. Each page can have a Spanish version with the same facts. The pages start from a tested layout, so menus and buttons work on a phone.
Photos cannot be placed on the site yet, and a logo works only if you have it as an SVG file, so the look comes from your colors and lettering. A captioned video made from your photos with the Media add-on can go on a page.
Checked before it is public
After each change, Grantkeeper builds a preview and checks it: phone and computer screenshots, menus that can be reached, buttons that work, no errors and nothing that scrolls sideways. You see the screenshots on your private page, or a private preview on your own devices if Tailscale is set up.
Publishing takes a one-time code you text back, tied to that exact version. If something is wrong after it goes live, Grantkeeper can put the previous version back the same way.
Hosting and your domain
Sites are published to Netlify, a website host, and we set up the account and your domain name with you. Google Ad Grants requires grant ads to point to your own website on your own domain, so grant campaigns always link there. If your site is on WordPress, the WordPress connection is the better fit.
What to send for a change
Short is fine: “Wednesday Bible study moves to 7 pm starting Nov 5” or “add the food pantry hours in Spanish.” Grantkeeper finds the right page, makes the change and sends the screenshots. A bigger change, such as a new page for a capital campaign, starts with a short plan and one question before it builds.
You can also ask what is on the site right now. Grantkeeper reads its own working copy and tells you, which is handy before a board meeting or a new staff member’s first week.
Small changes are the point: new service times, an added event, a closed program. Text the change, look at the screenshots, send the code.
Sources: Netlify documentation, Google Ad Grants website policy
Start with one page
With the Website add-on, Grantkeeper builds and changes a small site, checks it on phone and computer screens, and publishes approved versions to Netlify.
- We turn on Website and publishing with you.
- Text what the page should say.
- Look over the screenshots, then send the code to publish.