Review: UUA Wordpress Theme -- A Further Look, Part 2 (Header and Footer)
Continuing my thoughts about the new UUA Wordpress Theme...
Header
I've already talked about my preferences with the logo, but there's more to the header than that. The theme lets you have the logo and title, social media icons, your Sunday service time (or other text), and a small header menu. The organization of the header area is aesthetically pleasing, and it's well-sized so that it doesn't take up too much of the screen. Overall: bravo!
Footer
The footer has four areas. In one area, the UUA logo will appear, and if you set it to, you can also have the Welcoming Congregation logo and the Green Sanctuary logo. These balance nicely to form a block if you have all three. We're not a certified Green Sanctuary church, so my footer has a bit of a hole there. It'd be nice to include things like the AIM logo, but you have three other areas that can go in.
Some other choices that congregations might wish to include are a Standing on the Side of Love logo or a Black Lives Matters logo, particularly as more congregations have formal votes to support Black Lives Matters. But, again, there are three other areas in the footer you could put these things in yourself, it's just that if you have a hole in the one block, it might be nice to fit them together.
So in the other three areas, I had some questions as to what to put. Obviously one needed to be the address, as in the demo site, because it's not anywhere else prominent on the Home page. The second, the demo site has a little description of the minister. I didn't want that. And the third has a little newsletter sign-up form. I don't have a way to do that yet. So I opted for links for the newsletter (this will change monthly, the way I have it set up) and some other information that wasn't elsewhere -- that we are wheelchair-accessible, have listening devices available, and support breastfeeding.
So, overall review of header and footer: lots of nice options, everything you need.
Header
I've already talked about my preferences with the logo, but there's more to the header than that. The theme lets you have the logo and title, social media icons, your Sunday service time (or other text), and a small header menu. The organization of the header area is aesthetically pleasing, and it's well-sized so that it doesn't take up too much of the screen. Overall: bravo!
Footer
The footer has four areas. In one area, the UUA logo will appear, and if you set it to, you can also have the Welcoming Congregation logo and the Green Sanctuary logo. These balance nicely to form a block if you have all three. We're not a certified Green Sanctuary church, so my footer has a bit of a hole there. It'd be nice to include things like the AIM logo, but you have three other areas that can go in.
So in the other three areas, I had some questions as to what to put. Obviously one needed to be the address, as in the demo site, because it's not anywhere else prominent on the Home page. The second, the demo site has a little description of the minister. I didn't want that. And the third has a little newsletter sign-up form. I don't have a way to do that yet. So I opted for links for the newsletter (this will change monthly, the way I have it set up) and some other information that wasn't elsewhere -- that we are wheelchair-accessible, have listening devices available, and support breastfeeding.
So, overall review of header and footer: lots of nice options, everything you need.
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