How Do You Design A Church Web Site?
• Match your site’s size and complexity to the volunteers you have who will maintain it. You don’t want something elaborate that will go out of date quickly when the person who set it up goes off to college. Don’t set up pages for “Weekly Sermon Topics”, “Upcoming Events” or “Calendar” unless you have someone willing to update the content every day, week or month. • Start with a Home page, with a brief welcome, schedule and, if possible, a picture of your members smiling into the camera. • Write a Map page. You might want to label it “How to find us”, so that visitors don’t confuse it with the site map page. See the related article, “How to Design the Map Page for a Simple Church Web Site”. • You need a page about your Minister. It might have a biography, a welcome statement from him/her and a picture or him/her. • Activities/Schedule Page: Sunday Services at 9:00 and 11:00 will be on the home page. Repeat it here, but this page is mainly for Wednesday night Bible study, Saturday softb
