Determining Your Church Website’s Basic Layout: The Wireframe

This post in the Using WordPress to Run Church Websites series is about deciding on your church website’s basic layout structure.

Since this is my tutorial series and there are seriously a near infinite amount variations one could use for a website layout and structure, I’m going to write it the way I do it. :-)

Oftentimes this stage is called doing the “wireframe.” For simplicity, I’m just going to say — the basic layout of your site, OK?

Generally speaking, below is the basic layout I use for most websites (not necessarily blogs as you can tell from this one and my other ones).

January 25, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Web Site Design, WordPress

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Installing WordPress on Your Church Website

Continuining in the Using WordPress for Church Websites series, let’s talk quickly about installing WordPress on your church website.

Because WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms out there today, most website hosting plans offer a “one-click install” of it. (I do with my hosting services.)

January 25, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Web Site Design, WordPress

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The Big Idea by Pastor Dave Ferguson

Like many other bloggers, I got my copy of blogging pastor Dave Ferguson’s new book The Big Idea: Focus the Message-multiply the Impact (The Leadership Network Innovation Series), which will debut around Feb. 1. [Thanks, Dave!]

I’m looking forward to reading the book and posting some lessons I gleaned from it … as always I welcome “free stuff” especially books like this that will help me do ministry better.

In the meantime, here is some information about the book …

January 25, 2007 · Filed Under Books, Church Marketing

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5 Reasons to Choose WordPress to Run Your Church Website

In the last post I gave you a quick introduction to WordPress. In this post, I’d like to give you some reasons why I choose to use WordPress as a content management system for small- to medium-sized churches.

Here they are:

January 24, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Web Site Design, WordPress

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Introducing the Using WordPress for Church Websites Tutorial Series

wordpress for church websites tutorial series

Today, I’m kicking off another tutorial series …

I’m calling this new series Using WordPress to Run Church Websites. In this series, I want to explore how a church could use WordPress, the free blogging platform that runs this site and thousands more like it, as a cheap, easy and flexible content management system to both create a church website as well as easily maintain it.

January 24, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Web Site Design, WordPress

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How to Do Online Registration Forms for Your Church: The Easy, Affordable Way

Here’s the problem: Most churches (at least the ones I’ve been involved with) want to leverage their church websites to offer easy, online registration forms for things like Precept Bible studies, or other discipleship classes, or new members classes, etc.

Most youth ministers are probably drooling just dreaming about having all their multiple signups at the click of a mouse (summer camps, discipleship weekends, need I say more?).

Here’s the solution: Or at least the cheapest, easy one I’ve found. It’s called Icebrrg and is one of many great products offered by a superb web design company located in Oklahoma City called Element Fusion.

January 23, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Web Site Design

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