Required Content

Given the enormous scope for innovation and creativity in website design, it is impossible to specify where and how content items must appear. Some highly dynamic sites might not have separate "pages" per se, a site may have a text-free "splash page" as its primary entry point, and so forth. Therefore, this set of requirements is phrased in terms of relative prominence and ease of access. On more traditional sites, the intent is that prominent information appears on the primary content-containing landing page (typically the "home" or default page reached via the bare domain URL), and that easy-to-find information is either on that same page or easily reachable via a link from that page. 

A Google Site template is available for local bodies and chapters who do not wish to design their own. Send a request to tech@oto-usa.org.

All local body websites must make the following information prominent:

• The name of the local body, as chartered by the Electoral College.

• The letters OTO (with or without periods) or the words "Ordo Templi Orientis".

• The "valley" of the body (city and state) as chartered by the Electoral College.

All local body websites must make the following information easy to find:

• The contact email address of the body.

• The contact postal address of the body.

• A link to the US Grand Lodge public website primary URL (https://oto-usa.org/).

Each of these required content items must appear in plain text available for screen readers and search-engine indexing.