Are you a Communications Director or Campaign Manager who has just been asked to take care of getting your organization a new website? Never done this before and not sure why it's part of your job? You're not alone! At least once each week I talk to someone in your position who seems lost and not sure where to start. So here's your guide, glossary and reading list to get started.

The web development world is a big place with lots of terms not used in other areas of the advocacy world. (And then there are words like "development," which has nothing to do with fundraising here in the Advomatic office.)

To date, successfully fundraising on Twitter has been elusive for most nonprofits. TipJoy had promise and buzz, but quickly shut down. TwitPay.me filled the void, but has received very little attention. Micr0-donations via PayPal just don’t seem to appeal to donors. Twonate has a different spin on Twitter fundraising by essentially managing pledges to donate via Tweets, but of all Twitter fundraising tools I have seen come and go over the last year, Give a Tweet by far has the most potential.

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We’re developing a checklist that all websites should be checked against before launch. Let us know if we’ve missed something out, or if something needs further clarification. Some well-known and well-documented tasks (such as validation and accessibility testing) are not explained in detail. Add your suggestions in the comments.

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Test Everything is a handy website testing tool that can test any website against a bunch of tools all at once. Simply enter the url of the site you want to test, and chose the tools you want to test it against - CSS and HTML validators, check accessibili

The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.