Case Study: The Q-Drive Youth Ministry Website

Check out my church’s Youth Ministry’s new website — Q-Drive.

Here are some details about the site:

  • Site is managed using Blogger via their FTP publishing option.
  • Template is a tweaked version of Blogger’s Minima template (one of my favorites).
  • Total cost: Roughly $9 for domain name. (Our hosting plan includes unlimited hosting of unique domain names.)
  • It’s still in beta … we’re still tweaking it.
  • I’m hoping to optimize it for search engines.
  • We’re using FeedBlitz as a free email newsletter. Our youth pastor posts to the blog, FeedBlitz sees it and sends it out.
  • We’re using categories (like For Parents) to distinguish posts for different audiences.
  • Flickr is making photo galleries a breeze!
  • Tobin Jackson rocks! (Yes, he’s our rockin’ youth pastor!)


The situation: I needed to give Tobin a way to update his individual specific ministry website (we’ve got a general brochure-type youth section on the main church website). I told him about using Blogger as a free Content Management System and he was eager to be my test case! We bought the domain name. I tweaked the template. We got it going. And in the process added some free bells and whistles for functionality.

One final note: This is a first step for Tobin and his ministry. I’ll be the first to admit, it’s a patched system, but it seems to be working, it costs us nearly nothing, and Tobin is happy about it all. We’ll reevaluate as he gets down the road and see what his needs are. I think this solution could be used for bootstrapped ministries and even churches.

December 29, 2006 · Filed Under Case Studies, Church Media, Web Site Design

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