The Best Online Memorial Website

By Dorothy Hayes


It is sad to lose a person you so much desired to live with forever. Sit could be a friend, family member, colleague or associate who had great impact in your life. To preserve these memories, an online memorial website is an excellent idea. It allows you to celebrate the moments you shared and prevent them from fading. Since this is a unique project, how do you accomplish it?

Find an appropriate host for your site. The options available include creating a website with own domain. The domain captures the name of the dead and is therefore personalized. This option is attractive but comes with expenses that include developing the site and maintaining it. The other option is to use a public platform where only an account is created. Such platforms are already prepared such that you only worry about content to upload.

Gather the materials you would like to include on the site. People who have interacted with the departed, places they have been, activities they have engaged in and such factors will help you in gathering materials. Include the communities they have worked with because they will play a part in remembering your loved one. Do not include everything. However, you can be thematic in your presentation.

Collect biographical data of the diseased to be shared on the remembrance site. Some of the crucial information that needs to be shared includes date of birth, name, parents, siblings, family and associations. You should be precise about the information you gather. You may ask for such details and ideas from people who have come into contact with the deceased. This prepares the ground and gives you a foundation on which to build your site.

Pictures and videos of the departed will tell an incredible story and enhance remembrance. There is a dimension to photos that cannot be achieved regardless of the words you use in description. Photo albums of family members and friends have these images. In case there are videos, they will also prove valuable. You may also allow visitors and friends to upload photos from wherever they are. Give people a chance to comment on them and also share.

A tribute should also be included on the website. You need a knowledgeable person to prepare it. Tributes should capture personal encounters and not a repetition of what most people know. It may also come in the form of a poem, memoirs and quotes that the departed loved. At the end of the main tribute, visitors should be given a chance to also add their tributes. You will be amazed at how unique each person knew and interacted with your departed friend.

Develop a site or platform that is well organized. The best approach is having segments for friends, family, workmates, and any other group that a person was involved with. Other ways of organizing is creating dates. Further, you may allow searches using names of people connected to the deceased. With an organized platform, it will be easier for people to follow.

People connected to the deceased should have an opportunity to comment, upload and share. Ask visitors to provide feedback about your site besides sending sympathy and condolences. This feedback will help you improve the platform and capture the desires of as many people as possible who were connected to the departed.




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