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Last week, I wrote an article chronicling my search for a new church home (read it here). I got a pretty good response from it at the various message boards I posted it on, so I was pleased with it and felt that it was one of my more well written articles. Anyway, early this morning, I was by chance checking the statistics for this month and checking some of the people who had linked to my site and ended up finding two sites that had made mention of my article.
The first was the Christian Web Trends Blog @ OurChurch.com. At their site, my article was the featured article in their week in review for March 10-16. Secondly, ChurchBlogger wrote up a little something about my article, as well as linking to a few others with similar content & ideas. What I enjoyed most about both of these sites is that they got the reasons why I wrote this article and why I was using the Internet to find a new church. I also liked how they pointed out the things that church webmasters need to be aware of when designing & building a website for their church.
As an addendum to my article, I would like to say something to church webmasters. The most important thing about a website isn’t the flashiness or the visual appeal of the website, but most importantly content and accessibility. I should be able to easily find what I’m looking for on your website, and the information I’m trying to find should be there. The church I ended up visiting was the one with the simplest design of all, but all of the content was there & easily accessible. With some of the flashier sites, it was hard to find some of the info I wanted to read about, and the look of the site didn’t sway me one way or the other about wanting to visit the church, as my reason for visiting the site was about its substance. So please keep that in mind when designing & updating your sites. God bless!