A variety of designers are responsible for our current websites for ministries, parishes, and religious organizations. In broad strokes we have: 1) volunteers, some trained and others not; 2) the staff person who takes it on trained or not; 3) niche website companies that provide a range of services from templates to custom designs for either parishes or church organizations; 4) professional website companies that do all kinds of sites…
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What Do You Need to Redesign Your Parish Website?
Over the next few months, I will be working on a resource to help parishes redesign or design their websites for mission. Just having a website is not the ultimate goal of our online presence. We need to have a mission-focused website. In my research on parish websites, I have discovered that there is very little guidance to help parishes to do this well and very few good examples to…
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14 Tips for An Evangelizing Parish Home Page
There are many, many details that go into the design of a website. The home page is the digital showcase, display window, or front lobby, not just for the website, but for the parish community and it needs special treatment. An evangelizing home page addresses the needs and answers the questions of visitors first. Below is a list of 14 items that I think are essential to an evangelizing, user-friendly,…
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Where are the Young Adults on our Parish Websites?
There have been a number of articles written on the “graying of the Church in America.” We only need to look around many Catholic Churches to see it for ourselves. That’s not to say that we do not have young families and young adults in the Church, but it is saying that they are not there in the same proportion as they used to be. There are several reasons for…
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Just Ten Seconds
#138199706 / gettyimages.com The general consensus among people who study web traffic is that we have 4 to 10 seconds to connect with visitors to our websites. Longer than that and they are gone to the next site.
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Creating Quality Websites Requires Many Talents
Over the years, I have probably managed/coordinated the development of more than 20 websites—some were simple blogs and others were sites with a variety of functions, including e-commerce, members only sections, digital magazines/newsletters, multiple contact forms, calendars, etc. I am not a web designer or developer. I work with the designer and everyone else who is involved.