church website

Whether your role in your church is that of a pastor, Sunday School teacher, social media coordinator, or any other position involving communication, you are in a competition for people's attention.

Searching online for information about people, places, products, and organizations is commonplace in our digital age. Most of us are doing multiple searches daily or even hourly. Tools like Google Places and Yelp provide valuable information about the establishments we want to visit, like restaurants, stores, schools, and even churches.

Church visitors are most likely to first encounter your church through your website after doing an online search. So what does your website say about your church?

WordPress is a great option for church websites. It's flexible, affordable, easy to implement, simple to upload and change content. WordPress has evolved from a simple blogging platform into a versatile content management system. Today, this open source software tool enables you to create anything between a simple blog and a fully functional website.

As internet technologies continue to develop and evolve, the chatter that has received the most the airtime has been social media and search engine optimization (SEO.) But, there’s one thing that sets the foundation for all brands—the domain name. Social media, search engines, advertising, and word of mouth can get exposure for your brand, but it starts with your domain. Whether you are a church, a ministry, a nonprofit, or a business, your domain name is the entry point for people to connect with your brand—it is your front door.

Building a new website for your church can be a daunting task. WordPress is a great platform to work with and it is super popular, but with that popularity comes an overwhelming number of options when it comes to themes and templates. In this article, I’m going to help you cut through the noise and share with you some of my favorite themes for churches.

Having a great 'about us' page is one of the best ways churches can do a great job of sharing who they are, their mission, their beliefs, and giving people a glimpse into your church culture. This website page is also sometimes called "Who We Are" or just plain "About." Whatever you call it, there are some fundamental topics to cover in this section to help first-time guests, visitors, your community and your members have all the information they need about what fuels your organization.

It used to be that you only saw SSL certificates used with online banking and ecommerce. Today, more and more web site owners are choosing to use SSL certificates on their websites for added security, increased trust with their web visitors, and hopes of getting a boost in their search rankings. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and are cryptographic protocols that provide communications security over a computer network (Wikipedia). Let’s look at what an SSL certificate actually is, the different kinds of SSL certificates that you can get, and a few things to look out for when installing an SSL certificate on your website.