The Reading League

Not one website. Forty-six.

The Reading League's digital presence is not one website. The 46 state chapter sites run on a WordPress Multisite installation built on the Avada page builder, a setup that forces a choice between giving volunteers too much freedom or too little. The evidence on this page makes clear which way that choice has gone.

We captured full-page screenshots of all 46 state chapter pages and overlaid them as a composite. The only consistent element was the shared header. Everything below it blurred into a smear of deviation.

This is not a failure of volunteer discipline. It is a structural failure of the tools they have been given. A page builder hands 46 volunteers a blank canvas and asks them to be designers. No policy document fixes that. A better system does.

See the composite for yourself →

Exhibit A

Every chapter, side by side.

All 46 chapters, A–Z, at the same 1280px capture width. The number on each card is the full-page height. Click a card to open it in the compare view.

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