As the 2008 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly begins, Welcoming Websites is proud to announce the launch of the new website for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. The new website reorganizes UUSC's content around four high-level navigation menus, and allows visitors to learn a great deal about UUSC's four focus areas, its membership engagement activities, and its wide range of human rights advocacy resources. The launch of the new website coincides with the launch of UUSC's e-Community, an online community which facilitates email newsletter signups, online donations, and e-activism.
Welcoming Websites took an active role in planning and implementing the new UUSC website. The project began with a brief strategy phase, which focused the site's goals and core audiences. An initial version of the site was implemented using Drupal 5.x, combining a variety of standard modules including CCK, Views, and eCommerce. A look-and-feel incorporating the new UUSC logo was drafted by JM Design, and converted into a Drupal theme with close cooperation between JM Design and Welcoming Websites. Welcoming Websites devised a number of custom modules and theme modifications to complete the project.
A great deal of the content on UUSC's website is related to major initiatives or membership engagement activities. This content is organized into a small number of "minisites". Each minisite corresponds to a single UUSC focus area, campaign, or membership engagement activity. Minisites conform to a standard structure, allowing visitors to navigate through the site easily, knowing that they can expect a consistent experience from one page to the next. At the same time, administrators have the freedom to tweak and refine this structure, to emphasize information that is specific to a small number of initiatives.
The use of Drupal for the UUSC's website significantly reduces the overhead involved in managing content, which facilitating unique functionality and content organization, through minisites and other core Drupal functionality. Welcoming Websites is excited to support the important human rights advocacy work carried on by UUSC and its members through the creation of a solid platform for online communications.
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