How To Create A Meaningful Virtual Memorial Website

By Walter Stone


Death leaves family and friends with a heavy burden to deal with. Unfortunately, those friends and relatives are usually spread across the world and bringing them together becomes a huge challenge. One of the most innovative ways to do that is setting up a virtual memorial website. How do you set up a meaningful, respectful and captivating site to remember the departed?

There are websites that already exist and specifically designed for that purpose. You only need to create a profile of the departed and invite your friends and family to engage. The sites allow you to customized your page in terms of color, text and images uploaded. This is fast and saves you the hustle of worrying about your IT capability.

Develop an own website from basic. This means working with a developer to create a unique site with the features you would like to appear. This option might require time and engagement with the developer. You have to factor the expenses for hosting and maintenance. The advantage you have is the power to customize the site to meet your needs.

There are blog spheres where you can create the desired page. These are preexisting sites as well but they are not designed for any specific purpose. However, the features are included through pick and drop. Blogs offer the opportunity to customize the themes. You have numerous add-ons to enhance your experience.

Social media is a platform with a wide reach and convenience in usage. Social media platforms are numerous with their membership allowing you to capture more people. Engagements on social media are simplified. If you need someone to comment or upload an image, social media makes it easy for you. The options on social media are limitless.

Are there special features you would like included on your page? The features to include depend on your plans. Some people would like to have fund raisers while others provide an opportunity for comments. In other cases, invited members are allowed to upload videos and images. Such features can best be found on a site built from scratch. Identify a platform that does not limit the features you can include on the site.

Provide an opportunity for people to engage. Engagements provide an opportunity for mourners to pass condolence and grieve with the bereaved family. You will learn some elements of the person in question that you did not know. It is the engagements that keep people coming to the page.

Will you be closing down the page or it will run forever? It is said that the internet never forget but whether people forget or not depends on the capability of your website. Some sites or pages are closed at the end of the mourning period while others remain to preserve the memories for generations.

Have a moderator who follows up the discussion and provides necessary information to participants. Develop a mechanism for sharing information on plans being made for interment. The site must capture the character and wishes of the departed for it to make the impact desired.




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