When choosing the best church website builder for your church, a big thing to consider is the themes or templates that come with each website builder.
Church website themes have changed a lot over the years.
When we developed our first church website builder more than 20 years ago, it was common to have Christian symbols in the header – crosses, doves, bibles, etc. Every once in a while we still have people contact us and ask us if we have themes like that. (No, sorry, we don’t.)
When selecting the theme for your church website, it’s important to understand that your goal is to help your website visitors understand who your church is and find the information they are looking for quickly and easily.
With that in mind, here are…
3 Secrets to Selecting the Best Church Website Builder Theme
1) Mobile-friendly
More than half of website visits are made using mobile devices. Therefore it’s absolutely essential that when you build a church website, the theme is responsive and mobile-friendly.
“Responsive” means the theme responds to the device the viewer is using – phone, tablet, computer- and displays each element of each web page in a way that looks good and functions well.
2) Page templates
Page templates are pre-made pages you can add to your website. The page is all laid out for you, you just have to replace the sample text with your text and the sample images with your images.
Page templates are helpful because instead of creating each page from scratch, you start with a page layout that has already been designed by a website developer. If you use a church-specific website builder, its developers probably understand the needs and goals of churches and their website visitors and designed those page templates to meet those needs and goals.
3) Brand consistency
Branding is communicating the values and culture of your church through the way you talk about and present yourself.
When most people hear “branding” they think logo. Yes, your logo is an important part of your brand. But in addition to your logo, the colors, fonts, icons and images you use on your website also communicate your brand.
Colors – The colors used throughout your website should be consistent with the colors in your logo. If you’re not crazy about your logo colors, learn more about the psychology of color. It might be time for a new logo with new colors that better fit the culture of your church.
Font – As with colors, the font used throughout your website should be consistent with the font used in your logo. The font you use communicates culture – serious, playful, casual, fancy.
And yes, I used the singular form of the word – font, not fonts. Don’t be using different fonts on different pages or multiple fonts on one page. Your website is not hosting a calligraphy festival.
Icons and images – The style, shape, and color of the icons and images used throughout your website also communicate something about your culture.
This is why website designs are called “themes” – because the colors, font, icons and images are all designed to communicate a specific theme. So, choose a website theme that matches the style of your church – formal, casual, urban, country, artistic, or whatever.
The bottom line is…
The best church website builders have themes that are mobile-friendly, include page templates, and compliment your church’s brand.
Get the best church themes!
OurChurch.Com’s WP-EZ Church Website Builder includes a wide variety of church themes. All our themes are mobile-friendly, come with page templates, accommodate a logo and can be customized to match your logo’s colors.
If you prefer to have us create a custom church website design for your church, we can do that. And if you’re thinking about logo design or branding services, we’d be happy to talk more about that too.
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Mark has served as the President of OurChurch.Com since its founding in 1996, leading the Custom Website and Sales departments with dedication and expertise.
Over the years, he has managed hundreds of custom website, graphic design, and marketing projects for churches, non-profits, businesses, and schools.
Beyond his professional work, Mark is deeply committed to serving his community. He coordinates and packs over 700 meals each week for children through One Community Now’s Pack A Sack for Kids program, volunteers in the Children’s Ministry at Generations Christian Church, and participates in a weekly Bible study.
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