Faith and Web

For people wanting to improve their congregation’s website, I’ve broken this blog’s more substantial entries into a few categories.

Getting Started

• Starting a Church Website on a Shoestring: Part 1
• Starting a Church Website on a Shoestring: Part 2
• It’s the Content, Stupid: includes a "Checklist of Critical Church Website Content"
• Optimize Your Congregation’s Website for Search Engines: includes a checklist

How To - or - the Nuts & Bolts

• Content Management Systems, Wikis, etc., etc.
  • My Church and WordPress: how we use WordPress quite successfully as an announcement board
  • Members Only: A Wiki in Sheep's Clothing
• Graphics
  • Five Key Concepts to Make Graphics and Photos Work for Your Website
  • Photoshop 101 for Church Webbies
  • Picasa: a Photoshop Alternative?
  • The GIMP: a Better Photoshop Alternative
  • Finding Stock Art for Your Congregation’s Website
  • Creating Favicons for Churches, Synagogues, etc.: includes a few favicons to download
• Include Files
  
  • How and Why Include Files Improved My Webbie Life
  • Polishing Up the Lowly Footer
• Statistics
  • Get Going with Google Analytics In 5 Steps
  • Shedding Light on Website Statistics: a longish post, introducing "web analytics," with further resources
• Blogging
  • Top 10 Tips for Church Blogging
• Email
  • How to Do a Great Weekly Email for Your Congregation
  • Top 10 Tips for Managing Congregational Email

Redesign

These entires follow the ongoing and thorough process of redesigning my church’s website.

• Church Site Redesign: Step 1 - The Kick-Off
• 5 Key Redesign Goals that Promote Ministry
• Content Audits Are a Beautiful Thing
• How Your Church’s Mission Can Inform Its Website
• A Gallery of Inspirations for Church Webmasters

Managing People is Part of Creating a Great Website

• The Essentials for Enjoying Volunteer Web Work
• How to “Fire” a Client
• How to Have (or Be) a Happy Church Webmaster

Miscellany

• Here’s a Quick Way to Harness Google Maps for Your Site
• Count Your Google Account: One, two, three great tools… Ah, ha, ha!
• 404s are Inevitable: How You Respond Isn’t
• 7 Ways to Draw Older People to Your Site
• My Father’s Daughter Blogging Against Disablism: one example of why accessibility for websites is so important
• Proud to Be a Girl Coder