Welcoming Websites

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a nonsectarian organization that advances human rights and social justice in the United States and around the world. Welcoming Websites helped UUSC develop a strategy for its website, and implemented this strategy using a variety of standard and custom-developed Drupal modules. This project also included the integration of a new logo and graphical design into the UUSC's web presence, the addition of ecommerce functionality powered by Verisign's Payflow Pro technology, and interactive e-activism powered by Convio.

The Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA) provides its members with information and services through its website. Welcoming Websites helped UUMA upgrade these services, integrating its offline membership database with an online, Drupal-managed membership database. The new website also features a variety of content management functions, enabling the organization to keep its members updated with important information and events.

Welcoming Websites has been working with Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt to develop a more unified look among her two established blogs (RevRose.com and TrusteeTalk.net) and her new blog (NoHomeTraining.org).

As part of this process, we migrated Trustee Talk into Wordpress and installed Wordpress for No Home Training. (Rev Rose was already in Wordpress). With all three blogs then using Wordpress, we produced three different variations of the Hemingway Wordpress theme and installed one on each of McNatt's blogs. The structural similarity between all three variations of Hemingway creates continuity between the three blog, while the unique color schemes allow each blog to have its own personality.

The Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside (UUCR), in California, transitioned to a site based on the Drupal content management system. Their new site features a fresh design and increased functionality, including a sermon audio archive, surveys for website visitors, and a minister's blog. With the support of the congregation's website task force, lay leaders and church administrators were trained to add content to the website on Drupal's user-friendly interface. Welcoming Websites is enthusiastic about enhancing UUCR's online presence through increased functionality and usability.

Welcoming Websites worked with Jewish Women's Archive to improve the administrative back-end of the MakingTrouble.com website, which promotes JWA's landmark documentary about six of the greatest female comic performers of the last century. The new back-end is operated by Drupal, helping JWA staff easily manage a variety of content which appears throughout the MakingTrouble.com site.

The Stonetree Congregational Resources website, supported by the Prairie Star District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, connects Unitarian Universalist congregations with people who can serve as resources on the arts, ceremonies, social action, and other areas related to congregational life. Welcoming Websites is assisting the Prairie Star District in using Drupal to make the Stonetree Congregational Resources website more scalable, and accessible to a larger
audience.

Welcoming Websites has developed a Drupal-based site for UU Mass Action, in order to help the organization and its member churches share information about social justice events in Massachusetts. The website enables UU Mass Action to maintain a blog and resource archive, and to solicit donations from site visitors.