Clarify Your Goals
A vital step in deciding what type of web site is right for your organization is to clarify what your organization wants to accomplish with a web site. This decision will affect, among other things, the content and organization of your home page, where you publish it, and how you maintain it.
Some of the goals that I have seen include the following. Of course, many religious groups have several of these goals for their web site.
- To provide information about our group to people new or existing resitdents of our area in the hope of attracting them to our group
- To disseminate organizational information among our members (e.g., online newsletter, organizational directory, etc.)
- To contribute to the general presence of religious groups (or groups like ours) on the internet
- To provide our members a forum for expressing their views about a cause they are interested in.
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