First Unitarian Society of Schenectady

Christy Multer and Don Porter: Workshop at
St. Lawrence District Assembly April 25, 2009
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany

cmulter@bhbl.org
dondporter@gmail.com
Page updated April 28, 2009

Presentation Slides

References

 
St. Lawrence District:

http://www.sld.uua.org/

http://www.sld.uua.org/congregations.html

Standards, validation, evaluation:

http://validator.w3.org

WWW standards validator

http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

Functional accessibility evaluator

http://anybrowser.com

Check what a page looks like in any browser you can name

http://validator.w3.org/checklink/

W3C Link Checker

http://www.genealogy-computer-tips.com/accesscolor-online-tool-for-color-contrast/

How to check color contrast for accessibility

Web page editors (WYSIWYG):

http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

Commercial; expensive

http://www.kompozer.net/

Open source; free

Online Church web site providers:

http://www.churchledger.com/

http://www.thischurch.org/

http://www.vchurches.com/

http://www.citygates.org/

CMS (Content Management System) popular options: examples from SLD

http://uuroc.org

First Universalist Church of Rochester WordPress

http://uuamherst.org

Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst Joomla

http://uuso.org

Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta Joomla

http://fussonline.org

First Unitarian Society of Schenectady Joomla

http://www.uuaplattsburgh.com/

UU Fellowship of Plattsburgh ChurchLedger

http://www.saratoga-uu.org/

UU Congregation of Saratoga Springs ACS

Advice, tutorials, guidelines:

http://lists.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/websters

Websters

http://www.uuism.net/uuwiki/index.php

Uuwiki

http://www.uuism.net/uuwiki/index.php?title=Websters

Repository of UU online information on websites

http://www.genealogy-computer-tips.com/

Patricia Geary, UU Harrisonberg Webmaster

http://www.jpduua.org/media/SPREAD-THE-FLAME.doc

Spread the Flame

http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/things-a-church-website-should-make-very-easy-to-find/

Advice from Elizabeth

http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/launching-wordpress-blog.html

Ebook free to download: how to get started with WordPress

Commercial Examples of Church Websites

ChurchBeauty?

Examples of UU Websites, collected by Julie Albanese: [Additional comments by Don Porter]

First UU San Diego

Adobe GoLive

First Unitarian Church of San Jose

Paint Creek UUC - Home Page

javascript for text size

Tapestry, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation

lots javascript

Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading Welcome Page

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fort Wayne

FrontPage

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Harrisonburg Virginia

CSS good, with docs. Nav good

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Southern Maryland: Home page

was Front Page [now moved to CoffeeCup]

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Mendocino Coast

Barehands,Notepad, no CSS -- Design by Ted Pack

Welcome to All Souls!

Traditional tables, static ... Poor text contrast

Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto

Good CSS layout with docs

Home Page | First Parish Cambridge - Unitarian Universalist

Drupal

First Parish in Concord

Joomla

First UU Church of Wausau - Home

Joomla pre 1.5

May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society - Home

Joomla