Introduction. If you're like most church members and staff, you want your church website to serve two main purposes. First, you want your church website to reach out to the community so that those seeking a church can find it. You want it to convey to potential visitors where the church is located, when services and activities take place, and most importantly what the church is all about. Second, you want your church website to enhance communication among members of the church. Done well, a church website has the potential to convey information, build community, and help staff become more efficient and effective. But where do you begin?
Don't let limitations on budget, staff or even knowledge of the Internet keep
you and your church from offering all of the following and more:
Free Church Websites
- Clean, attractive homepage to introduce people to your church.
- User-friendly administrative interface that any church secretary or other staff member can handle… even the pastor.
- The ability to add photos of church members, staff and events.
- A guestbook where church members and guests can acknowledge their visits.
- Inspirational music that plays each time someone goes to your site.
- A location map so visitors can find your church.
- An email newsletter to keep members and guests informed about the latest church news.
- Information forms to help people contact church staff… and provide you with details about the people who are interested in your church.
 A church website and church web hosting from OurChurch.Com start at the most affordable price possible: absolutely free! That's right, you can
build a free website right now, and keep it for as long as you like. Once you see how easy it is to
build and maintain your own church website, you'll want to upgrade your hosting to include:
Advanced Church Websites
- All features included in our Free Church Websites.
- A unique domain name, such as MyTownChurch.com to make it easier for people to remember and type your church website address.
- Email @YourDomain for staff and ministry team leaders.
- More web space so you can increase the number of images.
- Streaming audio and video to make sermons, choir performances, or entire services available on your site.
- Community-building features such as a message board, chat rooms, blogs.
- The ability to build your site in a separate program such as Microsoft® Expressions® or Macromedia® Dreamweaver®, if desired.
- Search engine registration so your church website can be found in the major search engines as well as Christian search engines.
Custom Church Websites. If you're ready to offer visitors and members a unique and attractive Internet experience, then leave it to our experts to create a custom designed website just for your church. We can create a site designed to your specifications with
Flash®, a dynamic menu, an advanced calendar, an advanced newsletter system, photo albums, and many other features that will benefit your church.
Custom CMS Express. If you have a growing, forward-thinking congregation, take a look at our brand new Custom CMS Express for churches. A Content Management System, or CMS, is an advanced yet intuitive system of web management tools that enables you to grant access to staff and ministry team leaders so everyone can manage their part of the website. It includes interactive features like calendars, newsletters, and online registration forms. We'll install and customize an affordable CMS solution for you in less than a week and train you on how to use it.
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