The Only Two Things Your Church Website Needs

There are only two things you’ll ever need to have for a great church website:

A good design
A continual stream of great content

Don’t let anyone, including yourself, tell you that you need more than this. Read more

June 29, 2007 · Filed Under Church Websites

The First Five Steps to Optimizing Your WordPress Blog

I just posted on my blog design site a post detailing the first five tweaks I take when doing a new WordPress blog installation.

Here’s a summary of the most important tweaks I do:

Install the Google sitemap plugin
Activate the Askimet plugin
Burn your feed
Change the permalinks structure
Use a contact form

Note: These are just the first five changes, according in priority, that I do.

Read the whole post here.

June 29, 2007 · Filed Under Blog Design

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Keeping Your Church Website’s Statistics

It’s really important that you track your church website statistics … and Randa Clay has a good review of some of the major statistics called the Ultimate Guide to Free Website Analytics.

I prefer and use Google Analytics. It’s pretty powerful as well as reliable and gives you some of the most pertinent and valuable information, like where people are logging on from, how many unique visitors and pageviews you’re getting a day and the most popular page or post on your site …

June 28, 2007 · Filed Under Church Websites

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Looking for Guest Blog Writers

Hey, I’m looking for guest posters for CCP again … if you have a good, practical blog post that would be of service to pastors and ministers, let me know.

The main topics I’d like to cover here are: Church Websites and Blogs and of course Church Communications and Marketing.

This could range from how you redesigned your church bulletin … to how you used billboard advertising in your community … to a new tool you found to use on your church website.

Of course if you have a question and you’d like me to do a post on it, send me an email!

June 28, 2007 · Filed Under Church Websites