Splash Page

[Drealm]

I think right now it's not clear that we offer a weekly Parsha reading. This is lost amongst everything else.

When someone enters our site now they see:

> Uploads
> Online Synagogue for Men
> Pin
> Pin
> Pin
> Pin
> Pin
> Pin
>Thread...
>Thread...
>Thread...

Really what I think people should see though is:

> Weekly Meeting
> Forum Discussion

This makes it clear that we have a weekly meeting and also a forum discussion.

We shouldn't call it "Parsha" or "Online Synagogue for Men" because both of these are unclear. We can elaborate what the "weekly meeting" is in the thread but the title should speak to none bible readers. I was considering "weekly reading" but I think this isn't as good a choice because it could be interpreted as something that's done as solo studying but with a shared calendar schedule.

To achieve this I would suggest a splash page. It can use a URL like http://www.biblicjudaism.org/splash.

The idea is to have something that clearly highlights our parsha readings. It should also leaves a memorable impression instead of being a raw forum. It can have two text links, one that goes to "Online Synagogue for Men" thread and one that goes to the forum.

I'm thinking something like this:



I searched "old testament woodcuts" and found this one. I think this one is an illustration relating to Micaiah. I only chose it for aesthetics.

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[Drealm]

If you'll mostly be advertising on religious sub-forums then I agree it makes sense to keep a religious indication.

But the two biggest selling points are:

1) Oral interactive discussion
2) Reoccurring event

I think this offering is what makes a person click or not click. My problem with "Online Synagogue for Men" is "Synagogue" alone doesn't make me think 1) or 2). My first impression from reading the title is that it will be a list of compiled articles.

So let's suppose we want to indicate three things:

1) Oral interactive discussion
2) Reoccurring event
3) Religious

How about:

"Weekly Parsha Talk"

[fschmidt]

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[Drealm]

Since "Synagogue" is with "online", I don't assume it's going to be a meeting place. My impression is "Synagogue" is a fancy title for a sub section within the forum. I see it in the same way that Humanity uses "The Refuge" and "The Sanctum" on CoAlpha. These aren't places, just fancy sub-sections for categorizing threads.

But I think you solved this with "services". This implies regularity, some interaction and also attendance sounds more optional and therefore less tedious.

But I would leave out the "for men". The point is to get the people interested on the big selling points and I don't think "for men" is a big one. So "for men" just takes away from "services". Maybe some women will click, but I don't see this as a big deal because they'll quickly read the thread and find themselves disqualified by trying to find contact details.

So I would do:

Online Synagogue Services >
Forum >

[fschmidt]

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[Drealm]

I don't know anything about online hosting or HTML. I was planning on the page being just 1 jpg plus three text lines. If you know HTML I can give you the jpg and text specs or I can try figuring this out myself.