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This is a great check list to run through while you review your existing web site. If you have any of these things, please remove them. I’m begging you. It’s for the sake of the children.
Quoting from 10 Reasons Why Your Church Website Needs Work | Web Site Design Blog
1. You have an over excessive use of animated clipart.
This may have been acceptable in the 90’s for personal home pages, but it should never be used on a church’s website.
If you want to really annoy your visitors, keep this feature because it works.
2. You play background music that cannot be turned off.
If you want to really annoy your visitors, keep this feature because it works.3. Your site is in frames.
So you figured that you would make it easy for the navigation to be updated. Too bad you didn’t realize that search engines and some web browsers cannot properly view frames.4. The last time you updated the site was two years ago.
It’s always good to know what events took place in the past, too bad we have no idea what’s going on in the present.5. You utilize scrolling marquee text.
Sure it may look okay on CNN, but it looks horrible on a website.6. You use numerous font types throughout the website.
A little Comic Sans here, a little Arial there and a few Wingdings here, it’s a masterpiece! Perhaps only to a child.7. You built the site using Microsoft Word.
It was easy, just outline everything how you wanted it and then save as webpage. It doesn’t matter how different web browsers and different screen resolutions see the site, because it looks fabulous on your screen.8. You used Java or Flash for your navigation.
Look at the pretty cool effect. It’s a shame that search engines have a hard time trying to crawl a site with that type of navigation.9. You didn’t properly resize images before you added them on the site.
Why is that picture of the Pastor so blurry?10. You have used the same website design for the past five years.
Why change it now? That old outdated look really defines our church.
Read the entire article at:
http://blog.collinsinternet.com/34/10-reasons-why-your-church-website-needs-work/
Conrad, I laughed at the ten items. I wanted to share a site article about some real nice church websites.
http://abduzeedo.com/web-design-religious-sites
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I must agree with you. Some of the church websites really need some work. But then, not many people use them to check much on it, except church timings and address for the newcomers!
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