Your church website doesn’t need to win a design award. It needs to do one thing: make a first-time visitor feel like your church is worth showing up to on Sunday. That sounds simple. But if you’ve ever stared at a blank page in a website builder, cursor blinking, wondering what font to pick or […]
Category: Websites
Church Management Software vs. Church Website Builder: What’s the Difference?
A lot of churches are paying for a church management system that tries to do what their website builder should do. Or they’ve got a website builder doing things a ChMS should handle. The confusion costs real money, and it creates frustrating gaps where important things fall through the cracks. Here’s the short version: a […]
How to Get More Google Reviews for Your Church (Without Being Weird About It)
Asking your congregation for Google reviews feels strange. You know you need them. Someone probably mentioned it at a staff meeting. Maybe you even thought about bringing it up from the stage and talked yourself out of it. Here’s why it feels weird: you’re treating it like asking for a Yelp review at a restaurant. […]
What Should Be on a Church Website? The Essential Pages Checklist
Most church websites have a homepage, a staff page, and a "Contact Us" form that nobody fills out. That's not a website. That's a digital bulletin board, and nobody reads bulletin boards. Here's the thing. Your church website only needs about 7 pages. That's it. But what goes on those pages matters far more than […]
Church Website Builder: Free vs. Paid (What You Actually Get)
Every church wants a free website. That makes total sense. You’re working with a tight budget, and if there’s a way to get online without spending money, why wouldn’t you? Here’s the thing. Free church website builders exist. But what you save in dollars, you almost always pay for in time, frustration, and first impressions […]
Why Most Church Websites Don’t Show Up on Google (And How to Fix It)
Here’s something that happens more than you’d think. A family moves to a new town. Sunday morning comes. They open their phone, type “churches near me,” and your church, the one that’s been serving your community for 20 years, doesn’t show up. The family finds a different church instead. This isn’t hypothetical. It’s playing out […]
The real cost of website maintenance in 8 steps
How you go about handling maintenance and hosting for your website is crucial to your website having a clean bill of health. I’ve always thought of hosting and website maintenance in terms of taking car of my war. If I don’t consistently invest in simple things like oil changes I’ll eventually have to invest in big […]
