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Archive for the ‘Web Sites’ Category
Church Websites 101: 5 Tips
We’ve been talking big picture website ideas for a while. It’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty. This series could go on forever with tips and ideas, but this ...
Church Websites 101: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
As you sit down to build your church website, please don't reinvent the wheel. There are so many tools and templates and content management systems out there. Find something that ...
Church Websites 101: Time to Surf
It's time to surf the web and call it research. This is the fun part of a website redesign, when you get to look around at the competition and see ...
Church Websites 101: Know Yourself
As you plan and build your website you need to keep your own church's skills, abilities and faults in mind.
Church Websites 101: Know Your Audience
A key to any successful marketing is to know your audience. Who you're trying to reach will determine what will work in reaching them. So you better know your audience.
Church Websites 101: Call to Action
What do you actually want people to do when they visit your site? Our Church Websites 101 series continues with the call to action.
Church Websites 101: Plan the Site
Before diving into your website you need to do some serious planning. Talk about goals and objectives, tasks and measurements, weigh priorities and demands.
Church Websites 101: Find a Champion
To really move your church forward with a new or improved website you need a champion. You need someone who can carry this project through from idea to reality (well, ...
Church Websites 101: Don’t Start with the Web
So you think your church needs a website. Or a new site. Or a better site. Rock on. But before you get started on your new website, don't start with ...
Recycling Church Web Sites
Park Community Church in Chicago launched a new web site in October of 2009. But what to do with the old site? It’s not a question that’s asked very often, ...
Do You Need a Web Site?
I’m speaking next week to a group of college pastors, and I’m struggling. The first session is about church, communication and creativity … no problems there. The second session is ...
Joshua Blankenship on Copying
If you’re not familiar with Joshua Blankenship, he’s the web guru behind the scenes at NewSpring Church in Anderson, S.C. A couple times recently, he’s tackled the difficult question of churches, ...
Web Usability and Donations
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen recently wrote an article entitled Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities. In it, he discusses the virtues of creating a usable online ...
Nobody Cares About Your Web Site
Media Salt has a great article, whose title I shamelessly stole here, focusing on what your church can look like on the web. Their basic idea? If you’re still struggling to ...
Your Church Web Site, 320×480
In case you live under a rock (or just aren’t a slave to technology), an iPhone is about to set you back 199 George Washingtons. And they’re predicting a whole ...
