Your church website has enormous potential as part of your outreach strategy to reach into your community. However, not all churches understand how to design a site that will do this effectively. This self-assessment questionnaire can help you assess your site, and find new ideas or areas that could perhaps be modified.
This questionaire is great for design and content. But I’d say what about functionality? There should be more questions like, can members interact with the website? Can they go there to hear and download sermon notes, or audio? I think these are also important!
Thanks for your thoughts! I’m certainly wanting to add more ideas to the page. However, our suggestions are specifically limited to things that will be accessible to non-Christian outsiders! Listening to sermons is probably primarily for the members, I think. Praps I should emphasise this a bit more in the introduction?
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Do you have plans for continuing the blog? You have some great content and excellent Google placement. I have started one myself over at techinthechurch.blogspot.com. Would you consider adding me to your site?
Something that might be overlooked in the entire process of making site easy to use, is SEO. Great you’ve got a shiny new website… how are people going to find it? Direct traffic is good, but referrals and search engine hits are what till truly help the lost find you. If you provide a source of sermon video online people whom may be on the edge of attending a service may finally realize, “Hey, this isn’t so bad, maybe I should go.”