Content is the most important component of your website. Getting the content that best serves your visitors, communicates your mission and engages your members is a challenge.
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Designing Your Navigation Bar—Making a Website that Works for You Part III
The navigation bar on your parish website is the tool visitors use to find information that is contained on interior pages of the website. Titles that are clear and understandable are the goal. The titles and the subtitles below them should reflect a logical structure that makes sense to the visitor and helps him/her to make a choice quickly. Determine your navigation bar titles before you get a designer. Some…
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Making a Website that Works for You—Part II: Website Content: the Welcoming Home Page
There are many, many details that go into the development of a website. We all know that the home page of a website is key to its success. Therefore, it requires special thought and planning. In this post, I address the planning needed to create an effective home page for a parish website. Many of the principles can be applied to other ministry sites as well.
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Making a Website That Works for You- Part I
Every day parishes, dioceses, religious communities, organizations and ministries decide that they need a new website. They may not have a website now or their current website is outdated, difficult to keep up or just looking like something from the last century. What do they need to do to get a website that is contemporary, effective, engaging and easy to maintain?
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Four Keys to Increasing Traffic to Your Web and Social Media Sites
Who doesn’t want more visitors to their website or followers on Facebook? How many visitors or followers do you have is a question others ask us and we ask ourselves.
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Are Web and Social Media Sites Viable Ministry Tools?
Many people in ministry have come to accept that having a website and possibly even a Facebook Page are “necessary,” to be credible or relevant today. The number who see them as important and valuable ministry tools are fewer. How do I know that? I frequently see ministry websites that are poorly designed and have text heavy home pages. These sites are non-responsive to mobile devices and not helpful to…