First off, this is the weirdest thing I have ever seen when it comes to online websites. You possibly can't grasp the full effect of the religion without being in the physical place. Nevertheless, I feel that if there was websites on this, this website was set up properly. I viewed a temple through a website. I feel that in this website there if an effective use of space. When clicking around on the website, it seemed to effectively get me from space to space. The online temple is geared towards Hindu believers or anyone that is interested in joining and wanted to learn more about it. I think that this website is useful for first time viewers on this particular religion. However, I do not feel that this should be a place that people believing in Hindu should only go to practice their religion. If you have questions about a certain subject, it is almost impossible to grasp the full answer without being in person. I like how on this website, they draw a picture of the temple and point to the places where in a temple the areas are. This is very effective toward visual learners. Also, I like how in the meditation room, music of the temple comes on. However, if you are a first time learner, this is hard because it does not tell you what you are supposed to be doing while meditating. As you move over to the shrine, it says that this is the shrine room, however, again it does not explain the purpose of this room. This is not effective towards first time users. The Puja room caught was the most successful part about this website. I feel that when you go to a temple or church, you should be engaged into the process of whatever the church or temple is doing. When the choir sings in church, you pull out your hymns and sing along with them. In the Puja room, you are successfully aloud to place certain objects into the ganesh. This engaged me in the activity and also made me remember this more than most the other web pages on this site. Although this website is an efficient tool in this religion, it should replace the physical place of the temple.
This is the website below that I visited:
http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/religion/hindu/vtemple.html