If you are thinking that your synagogue website is more is more meh, than magnificent, we’ve put together a list of 5 easy ways to get your website back on track. Check them out below, and get inspired to tackle your website woes.
Having an outstanding synagogue website that your synagogue’s members actually want to visit takes a lot of work. A modern design helps, but the synagogue also needs a long-term strategy for how they’re going to get people to actually use the website. Here are some strategies to help synagogues accomplish that.
For many synagogues, their preschool/early childhood center (ECC) is a main attraction that brings young families into the synagogue community and starts them on their path to synagogue membership. What many synagogues often do is include the preschool content within the main synagogue website, but is that really the best approach? Or would it be better if the preschool had its own separate website, one that better highlights what the preschool offers?
In today’s day and Internet age, when so many people are used to accomplishing certain tasks online (especially younger generations), a synagogue’s website should offer the ability to accomplish some common tasks online – tasks that are common to life in the synagogue community. Here is my list of five tasks that an outstanding synagogue website should let people accomplish.
I don’t believe that the need for a website and what it contains are dependent on the size of the synagogue. Synagogues need to view themselves as professional organizations running a professional website presence, and as such need to have a better way of assigning responsibility for it.
A great synagogue website does many things well, but the most important thing it does is easily communicate information about the synagogue to congregants, potential members, and other people looking at it. With that in mind, here is a list of 18 important elements that I recommend any synagogue’s website should have.
