Websites
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Try to look at your congregation's website with fresh eyes, and ask yourself the following questions. ...
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"Usability" refers to the ease with which people can use a website in order to achieve their goal. Principles of usability help people of...
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A Simple Test ...
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It's About Consistency ...
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Usability Tip Choose images that enhance your story: engage your reader with faces or meaningful imagery. Use the text of your article to...
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Well-organized website content improves usability and search engine optimization, which reduces user frustration and fosters feelings of...
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Web links catch the eye (or ear) and tell a user a lot about the nature of your content; be sure to maximize their potential and avoid user...
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In most cases, a communications vehicle that represents a congregation should be owned and operated by the congregation as a whole, and be...
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The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) uses Google Analytics to track traffic (anonymously) to and through our websites.
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Choose one page that’s important to you, and name one or two major goals for that page: what do you want people to do?
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Averages, estimates, trends, and context are some of the things to keep in mind as you navigate the data collected by Google Analytics to help you avoid being misled. ...
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An Official Publication Requires Standards UUA.org is an official publication of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (...
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The meta description is a short phrase that summarizes the topic of the page. Meta descriptions go in the <head> of a page, in the...
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Each page on your site should have exactly one title, and it should go in TITLE field. The first 11 characters of each title ought to give...
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Link to Your Own Pages Your first step for search engine optimization (SEO) is to link to every page! Users and search engines alike will...
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If you can make your site with a logical and meaningful URL (web address) structure, all the better for search engine optimization (SEO)...
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Separating your content into shorter pages will allow you to improve the accuracy of your page titles, and the relevancy of your page among...
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The meta "keywords" tag is largely ignored these days (as it was so hideously abused by people trying to capture search results for which...
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Focus When writing for the web, or preparing other written materials for your website, be concise. Write tersely. Cut your content by half...
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Don't create pages (or links to pages) that have no content or that are "under construction." Publishing pages that are empty creates...
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Usability Sample Find links to this article's illustrations. Private Life in the Castles, the Towns, and the Rural Districts. Augustin...
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Images can add interest to a web page and help convey important information. On the other hand, they are one of the primary elements...
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Include an Email Address for Contacts Whenever contact information is included on a web page, a corresponding email address should also be...
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When you put your work on the web, this act constitutes an "implied license" to allow access to that work through normal web usage patterns...
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Purposes of Our Main Landing Pages The UUA's Web Team and Outreach Team make changes to the main landing pages of UUA.org based on...
Documentation for the UUA WordPress Theme for Congregations
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Technical documentation for the UUA WordPress Theme for Congregations, with how-to instructions.
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Here's what you need to know before you install the WordPress theme, along with an installation checklist.
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Before you download and install the UUA Theme for Congregations, make sure you’re ready. See this checklist for installing the theme. ...
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Once you’ve decided you want to implement the UUA WordPress theme for congregational websites, follow these steps.
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Installing the UUA WordPress Theme requires some technical skills. You also need to collect the information you'd like to include about your congregation.
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If your congregation already has a WordPress site, you can apply the UUA Theme to the site, adding the features that the theme provides. You’ll need to adjust the configuration settings for your site after you apply the new theme.
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When you’ve got WordPress installed and configured, follow these steps to install and activate the UUA Theme for Congregations.
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You got WordPress installed, did the first configuration tasks, and installed the UUA theme. The next step is to install the plugins that come with the theme.
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You can download a file containing all the content from the UUA WordPress Theme demo site, minus the content in the widgets on the homepage, in the sidebars, and the footer.
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So, you’ve downloaded and installed WordPress (or are maybe reviewing the setup that already exists). What are the next steps before installing the UUA Theme for Congregations?
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There are many sites dedicated to helping WordPress users, including the WordPress Codex and the always-helpful forums. ...
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Here are known issues with the UUA WordPress Theme, along with troubleshooting instructions.
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Here’s what you need to do to upgrade your congregation’s website from a previous version to the latest version.
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Once you have WordPress, the UUA Theme, and the necessary plugins installed, you need to configure settings that affect the website as a whole. After that, you can set up individual pages.
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You can customize your website's appearance, including logo, colors, name, and address.
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Events listings on your website will display the times of events. You may need to customize the way the date and time appear, depending on whether you want your website to use American or Canadian/European formats.
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The “Directions” link at the top of every page on your site displays a map centered on your congregation’s address. Here's how to configure that map.
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General instructions for how to display the Menus page, where you can edit menus, are here, along with a list of the four menus that appear in the UUA Theme.
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The UUA Bookstore Widget will display a little advertisement for one book (or other product) on a general, family, or social justice topic on every page on your site, except the home page.
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The menu menu, also known as the primary navigation menu, appears across the top of every page, below the congregation name, logo, and tagline. It’s the primary way people find their way around your site (aside from searching).
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To customize the header on your congregation's website, log in as an administrator and follow the steps below.
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The footer, which appears at the bottom of every page, contains four areas, three of which are customizable.
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The UUA WordPress Theme is a three-column theme, with the main content in the center, related content in the right-hand column (right sidebar), and a menu in the left-hand column (left sidebar).
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The WordPress Theme offers you many options with which to customize your site, including appearance, plugins, widgets, and more.
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Add Google Analytics tracking code to your congregation's WordPress website so you can see how people are visiting the site.
