Web Development
Rationale:
Church and non-profit ministry websites can be used for many things, but four uses stand out. They are an outreach tool, a communication tool, a resource center and a social networking tool.
First, websites are becoming an increasingly valuable and relevant means for drawing in new members. Many families new to an area will initially search for churches in the area like they do for any other service: through the web and most typically through a google search. Your web site’s look and feel becomes for many the first impression they have of your church or ministry.
Second, websites can be an excellent means of communication within your church or ministry network family. However, for it to become this it must be extremely simple and easy to update and extremely simple and easy to use and access information.
Third, websites can be used as a central repository for articles, sermons and other educational and training materials.
And finally, with the growth of Web 2.0 technologies and the social networking boon, a church or ministry website can be used to help build relationships within the body of Christ and to help facilitate an organic network of friendships and even discovery and utilization of spiritual gifts, natural talents and personal interests. Blogs, forums, instant messaging, personal photo albums and friends lists are all examples of Web 2.0 technologies that church websites can integrate and utilize for building relationships and community.
Summary:
Consider contracting us to essentially be part of your staff for two weeks and we’ll deliver a clean, professional site with 3 layouts and support for unlimited pages. The site will include an events calendar, google maps integration, audio and video sermon archives, welcome video integration, article manager with RSS feed and a navigation system editable through a content management system (CMS). The CMS will be used by church administrators and other church staff to add and edit page content, edit the menu system, update the events calendar, upload sermons, add articles and more. The CMS will be extremely user-friendly and will require no programming knowledge.
Features:
- Professional and clean design
- 3 different page layouts – home page, 2 column template and 1 column template
- Web based content management system
- Visual Calendar
- One-time and recurring events
- Playable and downloadable audio sermons
- Video sermons/messages
- Sermon podcasting
- Article manager with RSS syndication
- Image galleries
- Registration Form Creator
- Fading Header Image Rotator
- Ability to add and edit unlimited pages
- Ability to edit navigation menu
- Site search block
- Cross browser/platform compatibility
- Search engine optimized code
- Ability to edit/update meta tags used by search engines
- Clean URL’s
- WYSIWYG editor
- Code based editor for advanced users
- Website statistics (using Google Analytics)
- Google compliant xml sitemap
- Discussion Forum
Optional Modules (for an additional fee):
Resource Center Utility
A simple resource sharing utility for cataloging material resources and people resources across the membership base of your congregation
CRM
A CRM utility custom made for churches and non-profits (CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management but of course has different semantics in the non-profit community (i.e. donors and members rather than customers)). A CRM utility can also be used by church staff as a web based meeting place, project manager, contribution reports and document repository.
Custom Modules
Have an idea of something you’d like implemented unique for your site? We do rapid development work at a well below industry standard rate of $65/hr. Describe your custom project clearly and we’ll get it done quickly.