Would you like to know the secret to a beautiful church website?
A secret straight from renown artist Pablo Picasso?
Before I reveal the secret, let me preface this by saying, the appearance of your church website is NOT the most important aspect of it.
The most important thing is that your website advances the mission of your church – to reach out to people in your community, to help people grow in their relationship with God, and to help people connect with one another.
The appearance of your church website doesn’t really need to be “beautiful” either, but if there are parts of it that are cringe-worthy, they are going to distract people and hinder your ministry.
It’s like music in a worship service. It’s more important to have authentic, heart-felt worship than to be musically “beautiful.” But if the worship leader, worship team, or choir is out of tune, it’s very distracting and hinders people from people able to focus on God and worship Him.
All that said, even if it’s not your primary objective, you can have a beautiful church website with hardly any time, effort or expertise.
The secret to a beautiful church website is…
Copy Others
Pablo Picasso is quoted as saying…
Good artists copy; great artists steal. -Pablo Picasso
Even though I lead a church website design company, I do not have a design bone in my body. My background is engineering. I could not design my way out of a wet paper bag.
But I recognize good design when I see it.
I bet you can too.
This is why we designed the WP-EZ Website Builder with Page Templates.
Page templates are beautifully designed pages that have sample text and images in them. All you have to do is replace the sample text and images with your own text and images, and viola… you have a beautiful church website.
Check out this 3 minute video that shows how Page Templates work in WP-EZ.
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Got a WP-EZ 1.0 website?
Page templates are something we added to WP-EZ 2.0 themes. If you are using a 1.0 theme, I encourage you to switch to a 2.0 theme to get the page templates. To do that, login to MyOCC, and click the “Change Theme” button. For more info, see the WP-EZ 1.0 to 2.0 Migration FAQs.
Comment and Discuss… What are your thoughts on page templates?
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Co-founder & CEO, OurChurch.Com
Paul has been the CEO of OurChurch.Com since its founding in 1996, combining his passion for faith and technology to lead the organization.
An accomplished writer, Paul has authored over 2,000 articles on faith and technology, featured on platforms like ChurchLeaders.com, The JoyFM, and his personal blog, LiveIntentionally.org.
Beyond his professional achievements, Paul serves as an elder at Journey Community Church and is deeply engaged in his community through his involvement with the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch and the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce. He is a contributing author of the book Outspoken! Conversations on Church Communication.
2 Comments
The templates would probably be great if someone is just starting their website. However, I liked the way my website was in WP-EZ 1.0. It was migrated to that platform from the older website builder you had, and I had to do some redesign in WP-EZ 1.0 to get the page to look nice. I’m happy with the layout and did not want to make changes when migrating to 2.0. I thought I might use some of the template elements on a couple of our pages, but after looking at it briefly I decided to stick with what I already had instead of moving it into the page elements. I do not have time to redesign the site, and even if I did I would likely end up making it look similar to how it looks now. The only reason I migrated was to avoid the extra fee you started charging for remaining with 1.0. I do appreciate the work your team did to fix the issues I had with the site after the migration; they did a great job!
Hi Jean, thanks for making that point. You are correct – for those who may want to keep their site looking as it did 10 years ago, the Page Templates available in our WP-EZ 2.0 Website Builder will not help with that. They are more helpful for those building a new site or wanting to give their website a fresh look.