4 Examples of a Church Website Welcome Video
Forbes reports that in 2019, 80% of people are using the internet to watch videos. The saturation of visual media on the web today is evidence of a cultural reality: people gravitate towards videos. Churches seeking to reach out to their community through their...
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5 Ways to Make Your Church Website Security Stronger
Your church website is valuable to you and it’s worth protecting. Church website security is an important element in your website health. However, it is often overlooked. The biggest website security mistake you can make is to not take security seriously in the first...
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3 Church Website Essentials
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with a new church website project. There is so much about your church that you want to showcase on the website. However, you’ve also heard that sometimes less is more. You’ve been told that the key to success with your church website is...
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5 Uses for Web Forms on Your Church Website
Web forms connect you to your audience in a noteworthy way. They allow visitors to your website to communicate directly with you. They enable visitors to submit their contact information, questions, registrations, or payments. Publishing web forms on your church...
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3 Church Website SEO Tips to Improve Your Outreach
Church website SEO is an important element of website health. What is SEO and why is it important for churches? SEO stands for "search engine optimization". Moz.com defines SEO as: "the practice of increasing both the quality and quantity of website traffic, as well...
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6 WordPress Mistakes Churches Make (And How to Avoid Making Them)
WordPress is known for its ease-of-use and flexibility. However, there are several common mistakes that many churches make with their WordPress websites that cost them in the long run. These are some of the common mistakes that churches make with their WordPress...
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What Is Podcasting? A Guide For Churches
Podcast is a word that gets thrown around quite a bit but its definition isn’t always clear. So what is podcasting? Why does it matter for churches? How does one create their own podcast?
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Choosing the Best Sermon Audio Plugin For Your Church’s WordPress Website
There are many important decisions to make when building your church's website. Choosing the best sermon audio plugin for WordPress to use is particularly essential. Sermon audio is an important part of church websites. It serves the church members and newcomers...
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Popular Content Management Systems (CMS’s) for Church Websites – Our Research Results
We wrote a web crawling script to research the most popular content management systems used by church websites. We gathered data on 1,600 churches, and our web crawler inspected those 1600 church websites in late 2015. This article describes what we learned....
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Top WordPress Pitfalls for Church Websites
What are the top three WordPress pitfalls people face when building a church website? WordPress pitfalls? Wait, isn’t WordPress supposed to be wonderful? Yes. And it is. But then, taking a road through the Rocky Mountains is gorgeous and worthwhile — and you still...
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The Three Biggest Excuses People Make for Neglecting Their Church Websites
There are three main ways churches often neglect their websites: NOT having a website at all. NOT updating the design of your website to keep pace with advancements in web technology. Most designs have a "shelf life" of three to five years. NOT logging in to the...
read more Picking the right technology for your church website
Use a web content management system (web CMS) rather than static HTML “Static HTML” is shorthand for the way people used to build websites in the 1990s. You would individually create web pages using a text editor or software such as Microsoft Frontpage or Adobe...
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