You website will be fully compatible with the latest mobile phones. This works really well if someone is trying to use your website at the church, such as during a fundraising drive, or for a visitor trying to find your church while walking down the street.

I like to offer a personal service, so I will help you to create a web presence that truly represents your place of worship. You want your church website to be distinctive, not just another readymade template from a website company.  If your church already has a “corporate identity” try to match the website design with your existing printed materials and incorporate your church logo into the website. A consistent look and feel helps to build awareness of your church in the local community.

I adopt best practice techniques in designing for your customers. Eye-catching buttons, calls to action, and minimal visual clutter ensure your users will get straight to your products and services. And adopting some of the online techniques used by business can help you to build your congregation and improve church communications.

Good usability means happy users!

You may only want a couple of pages, but if you need to present a lot of information, I can help you to structure your website, so that everything you have to offer is presented in a user-friendly way.

You’ll be able to log in and edit your website yourself with really simple, easy-to-use editing features – no specialist technical skills required! This means you can change page text, upload photos, advertise events and post your latest church news. Editing can be done by one person or a group of people.

As part of the service, I put together an editing manual for you too.

A contact form is a simple way to allow people to email you without revealing your email address publicly. You can also have a special form for hiring out the church hall, and for prayer requests.

A Who’s Who is a great way of making your church more welcoming with photographs of the clergy/ministers. If desired, you can also include the PCC/church council or other key people, with an option to allow users to contact them directly.

Adding photos of events and worship brings your website to life and makes your church look more welcoming. You can easily update your photo galleries by logging in, or I can automatically embed photos from a photo-sharing website like Instagram. Using a sharing site allows others to participate and engages younger members, as users can add photos using mobile phones.

Upload your church news bulletin or parish magazine to keep your congregation engaged and your website fresh. Optionally, you can offer an archive of past newsletters, or just have the latest issue.

Advertise your services, and other events such as meetings or concerts, all in one easy-to-use online calendar. Events can be filtered to appear on different pages, and uses can add reminders to the calendar on their computer or phone at the click of a button.

This Social Media Package enables you can increase your reach further to the local community, potentially reaching thousands of people. Events you put onto your website calendar generate automatic reminders to anyone who is following your Facebook/Twitter posts. You don’t need to post them yourself – the technology is doing the work for you, saving you time and effort.

Don’t have a Facebook page or Twitter account? I can set one up for you at no extra cost.

A basic events calendar is great for promoting church events, but if you want to make your events even more appealing, the Enhanced Calendar allows you to add a colourful leaflet – perfect for a Christmas service or a concert! 

If you want to use your calendar  for frequent events, the Enhanced Calendar give your the ability to add recurring events, saving you extra effort.

Do you want to send out a weekly or monthly email news bulletin? Parish emails can be tricky to manage, but the Email Promotions package, I can set up an emailing database and professional-looking email templates. Emails can contain a personalised message and an automated list of forthcoming events generated from your website calendar, so you don’t need to type them in manually. What’s more, recipients can subscribe or unsubscribe via your website, so you don’t need to worry about managing the mailing list, and keeps you in line with Data Protection laws.

Emails are managed via a system called MailChimp. Once set up, there are no ongoing costs.

If you have your own web hosting, I will normally be happy to work with your existing setup, assuming a few basic technical features are available. If you’re starting up from scratch, or if you are unhappy with your current host, I can set up reliable hosting for you, and help you to connect it to your domain name.

• Web hosting is where you store your website files
• A domain name is basically your WWW website addresses. The way it works is that you buy the rights to the name for 2 or more years – it’s usually around £10 a year.