The UUA WordPress Theme for Congregations is a framework for your own congregational website. The theme -- like a template for your website -- does much of the technical and design work for you, so you can focus on the content....

Tools for developing quality online content: shareable images, blogs, videos, and more

This workshop guides you in (re)building your website's content and structure with low-cost, high–performance tools from WordPress and the UUA.

Conformance Guidelines The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) aims for the highest level of conformance on UUA.org with the following guidelines: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

Design your website so it is useful for both people seeking to learn about your congregation, and for existing members.

Technical Support to create and maintain an effective website that clearly communicates who you are, what you do, and why it matters.

Use fewer words and design for skimming. Be sure your content supports your mission, helps your users find what they need, and encourages web visitors to become congregational visitors.

An accessible website doesn't exclude visitors due to their abilities or the method they choose to access the web. Accessible content helps people with disabilities and people with limited internet, old technology, or who speak a different language.

Is your congregation’s website effective, attractive, and accurate? Learn how to run simple tests to assess and improve your usability, accessibility, and search engine placement.

Website hosting can be free or cheap, but it's worth making a budget item for hosting with well-reviewed customer service and technical support. Some hosting companies offer reduced rates to non-profit organizations. Registering your own domain name (websters email list, whose members are always...

Every few years, we reconfigure the information architecture (IA)—the menus—of UUA.org to keep up with changes in our shared language and priorities. We rely heavily on user input (from surveys, constituent feedback, and data from Google Analytics) and testing (surveys, card sorting, and tree...

Do you write content for a Unitarian Universalist (UU) website? Would you like to make your pages clearer, more helpful, and more engaging? Based on usability research, Rev. Susanne Intriligator developed these videos to help you craft effective webpages.

If we want people to hear our life-giving message, we need to learn to compete within these visual media.

UUA.org is one of our most important tools for introducing seekers to Unitarian Universalism.

Don't use all-caps. Not only does the use of all upper case text reduce reading comprehension by up to 90%, it is interpreted by many as the text equivalent of yelling.

Use brief, meaningful headers to allow your reader to scan a page quickly for the information they need. The use of "scanning" is one of the major ways web readers differ from print readers.

Use bold text sparingly. Though bold text is great for adding emphasis to a word or phrase, over time it causes eye fatigue and reduces comprehension. The use of white space and headers is a far more effective method of calling out important information. 

Use bullet points, short paragraphs, and/or headers to increase space and improve the scannability of your text. The use of "scanning" is one of the major ways web readers differ from print readers.