Terrell Sanders is offering a free ebook (email sign up required) designed to help churches overcome embarrassing websites. The ebook leverages his extensive church web design experiences through the work of the company he founded to suggest 10 practical pointers for church website design (or redesign):
- Use a simple, classic design
- Design for content
- Consistent style does not mean boring
- Start small, design to grow
- Design for guests
- A picture is worth 1,000 words
- Your webmaster should be a writer
- Publish frequently, in bite-size pieces
- Don’t get locked into proprietary systems
- Keep it fresh
So What
While designing websites is easier now than ever before, many awful church websites still exist. These online offerings create a virtual first impression that can be hard to overcome.
- How would you rate your congregation’s current website on a scale of 1-10?
- Which suggestions on Sanders’ top ten list does your congregation’s website violate?
- Provide a few examples of church websites you find to be both aesthetically appealing and filled with relevant and easy to navigate content.
For more on church websites, check out this recent post and its many links to other posts on the topic.