Website News 

​Our website is regularly visited by 350 to 400 'unique individuals'  each month, with visitors looking at an average of three pages each visit  The home page is the clear favorite - many members say they use the scrolling calendar on the website to confirm diary events.  

The newsletter is the main source of content on the website - with the website pages for each group proving a wonderful resource for visitors finding out more about our programs as well as providing an historical record and a ready reference for members. 

Our Be Connected teachers Jenny and Robyn play an important role in acquainting members with our website account. 

U3A Benalla's Facebook site  complements the website.  Our Facebook page has gradually grown from 86 followers on 7 Jan 2019 to 397 followers on 25 August 2025.

Posts now quite regularly number 10 to 20 likes.  .  

Avid photographers Bev Thornell and Andi Stevenson regularly add posts to our FB page and contribute photos to both the newsletter and  the website.  Rene Martens and Publicity Officer Doug Smith have recently been added to the editing team on FB.

Please contact me if you would like to join the web team, currently made up of Bev Lee and Dawn Stephens. 

Bev Lee, Website manager
​[email protected]
August 2025

Website Tips and Tricks

• Our website has a search-box!  It is at the top of the page and in the footer.  With the website containing content added since early in 2015, it’s a great way to find something you are looking for.
• You can connect to our Facebook page through the website.  Simply click on FB on the top menu.   If you don't have a FB account and are asked to login, the option ‘Not Now’ allows you to read posts. 

Contributing photographs to our website and social media
It is well worth spending time learning how to resize or compress photographs to reduce download speeds of webpages.  Photographs taken on digital cameras are usually between 1 and 4 Megabytes or even larger, however as a general rule photo images for websites and social media only need to be 800x600 pixels.     

Learning to use Weebly

The Weebly platform is easy to use as  you can see how the page looks on the screen while working on it.  Word processing skills help enormously.

Weebly Support Centre - consider adding a shortcut  to your desktop.

​Create a Blog using Weebly:   http://u3abenalla.weebly.com/bloggers

 'Creating a Website Using Weebly.com'

U3A Benalla and District Inc. Website - Information for Convenors

Website manager Bev Lee is happy to make one to one appointments to members keen to learn to use Weebly--email [email protected].