Your website is your temple's face to your community and the world, and very often the first place that potential members will go to find information. Thus your site must serve two audiences: members and guests. How can you ensure that your site effectively portrays your congregation for these audiences, and make it easy for them to find what they're looking for?
Whether your congregation's website is hosted by the URJ or elsewhere, we recommend you register a unique domain name that will help your members easily find and remember your website.
Every website should have a privacy policy that clearly states how information gathered on the site is used and how visitors may contact the congregation for further information. Your congregation’s webmaster should be able to give you the technical information that is unique to your congregation. The information that follows is for guidance only, and the Union for Reform Judaism recommends that any policy be reviewed by an attorney.
3rd Party Tools for Enhancing Your Website
Review and bookmark this useful roundup of third-party tools that many Reform congregations use to enhance their websites.
Designing Your Site
Take a crash course in "Web Design 101". Learn the steps involved in designing an attractive and useful website including tips for planning your content, best practices, and finding inspiration.
The beauty and curse of blogging is that anyone can create and run one. While there are many very good blogs in the "blogosphere" there are far more that are poorly done and rarely visited.
Having a great website that reaches out to prospective members and the community only goes so far if people can't find it. Here are some tips for getting listed in popular search engines.
Your website is your temple's face to your community and the world, and very often the first place that potential members will go to find information. Thus your site must serve two audiences: members and guests. How can you ensure that your site effectively portrays your congregation for these audiences, and make it easy for them to find what they're looking for?
Multimedia: 