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the World General Assembly 2001, Cleveland, OH ~ June 21-25  |
| 5034 Making the Web Work for You Electronic Communications Comm. |
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the World General Assembly 2001, Cleveland, OH ~ June 21-25 |
| 5034 Making the Web Work for You Electronic Communications Comm. |
Speakers: Margy Levine Young, Kok Heong McNaughton
In 1995, the uua.org website was a single page. Now it includes more than 12,000 pages, including worship resources, UU bookstores, congregational, district, and affiliated-organization information.
All UUA staff have email and we host more than 200 email lists on uua.org covering a wide variety of topics. For example, there is an announcement list and a list for those developing web pages. About 16,000 UUs around the world are holding online conversations and covenanting with one another throughout the day and night. They don't sleep, it seems.
The UUA hosts a general-purpose bulletin board (BB), a Newcomers' BB, and temporary BBs set up for specific purposes as the needs arise.
UUA Districts and affiliates can have their websites and email lists hosted on uua.org. Each District can have up to ten and each affiliate can have up to five email lists. In order to have a website hosted on uua.org, a Board-appointed webmaster needs to apply for a username and password and is given a specific folder on the UUA computer to maintain this website.
In the past, the UUA has hosted a one-page static webpage for any congregation that requests it. However, since it's impractical to update these pages frequently, we've found that congregations are better off if they create their own website and request a secondary domain name mapped to their URL. So we've stopped hosting new static pages.
The UUA does not sponsor mailing lists for each church; instead, you should go to a free email list provider like yahoogroups.com. Note: we strongly suggest that list policies be established for the proper use of such lists before conflicts arise; they will arise!
The following websites were referenced in this workshop.The following are next-step websites.
- Electronic Communications Policies – http://www.uua.org/oec/policies.html
- UUA Email List Rules – http://www.uua.org/lists/listpolicies.html
- Congregational email list guidelines – http://www.uua.org/mdd/mdd-cc/jucguide.pdf
- Online newsletter guidelines – http://www.uua.org/CONG/newsonline.html
- 2001 GA website – http://www.uua.org/ga/ga01/
- To subscribe to UUA email lists – http://www.uua.org/lists/
- Samples of start-up webpages – http://www.uua.org/mdd/neweb/template.html
- To check accessibility – http://www.cast.org/bobby/
- Clip Art and Chalice Fonts are available from www.uua.org: click on the "UUs On Line" link down on the left hand side and navigate from there.
- Write to link@uua.org to link the URL of your webpage to uua.org. In return, please create a link from your webpage to uua.org and to your district homepage.
- Yale manual of style and basic design principles for creating web sites; very nice layout with good information; easy to search – http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
- Web design page from "About.com" -- find out what things mean, ask questions, get resources – http://webdesign.about.com/compute/webdesign/mbody.htm
- A great site for keeping up with trends in web design, in easy-to-understand language, with a new article on accessibility dated June 21, 2001 – http://www.webreference.com/
- Lynda Weinman has a good site for learning about web design – http://www.lynda.com/
- Especially recommended are Lynda Weinman's reference pages of colors for the web sorted by hue and value – http://www.lynda.com/hex.html
- Web Design for Instruction; a well-written and well-organized approach to planning to present information on the web that also addresses site testing – http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/skaalid/site/site.htm
- The Web Monkey cheatsheet and reference is important to have if you don't write HTML, but have to go in and make a change to a web page – http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/
- What do webmasters need to know? This site touches on meta tags (words to help browsers find you) and site promotion – http://webmaster.tophosts.com/webmasterin/
- A sample website planning worksheet and good resource for ideas – http://www.wilsonweb.com/worksheet/pageplan.htm
Reported for the Web by Mike McNaughton
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