Planning to launch a new website or a redesign of your current site in 2024?
Allow us to introduce you to our low to no-cost web-based services for churches. Get a free session that will empower your team, staff and volunteers, presented by speakers with over 20 years of experience building websites for more than 200 different organizations.
We are offering these sessions to churches with congregations of at least 300 that are located in Colorado, Georgia, Southern California or Texas.
Please contact us promptly as these free sessions must be scheduled between before April 12th, 2024.
These sessions are customized to your church, whether it’s a new build, a partial or a full redesign. The session’s agenda will be set following a brief introductory call or meeting to discuss your requirements.
These are not highly technical sessions. They have been designed to be accessible to everyone that is involved in your web project as well as those that will be managing it after launch.
What does this session help you accomplish?
Our Website Planning & Build Sessions are designed to reduce the complexity around a website design or redesign project, helping your entire team to:
Learn
- Benefits of defining information architecture, usability, content architecture and technical architecture.
- Roles of domains, hosting, content management and website platforms.
- Importance of firewalls, website anti-virus/anti-malware protection, user and visitor security.
Document
- The goals for your website.
- Your strategic and functional requirements in one, easy-to-follow document.
- Integration with social media platforms and third party services, including email campaign platforms and congregational applications.
- How your site will scale to meet the growth and future needs of your congregation.
- Your uptime and security requirements (data security, antivirus/malware protection, backups, disaster recovery).
- Roles and responsibilities during the site’s development.
- Post-launch roles, responsibilities and workflows.
- A solid website development plan to minimize the chances of costly changes and delays.
Manage and Build
- Select the best domain and website hosting for your website, both in terms of cost and reliability.
- Select the best platform for your site based on your church’s specific needs.
- Select the best vendor/developer for your website.
- Manage your site’s development project plan.
- Get the most value from your web developer.
- Make sure your site meets prerequisites such as accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, mobile device compatibility, multilingual support (if needed), congregation private information shielding and more.
- Choose the right security and backup capabilities.
Launch
- Plan a complete pre-launch testing process.
- Set up, enable and understand your website’s analytics.
- Set up and enable your new site’s backups and security controls.
- Define your pre-launch announcements and congregation support.
- Receive free, ongoing support from a Christian Community Initiative web consultant even after launch.
Benefits of this Website Planning Session
- Avoid costly mistakes during the development process.
- Select the best vendor/developer for your website design/redesign project.
- Easily manage, update and maintain the new website immediately after launch.
- Ensure the website will serve your congregation exactly as you envisioned it.
- Give your congregation the best and most complete online experience from your church.
With this session, your church will be able to reduce development time and save money. Your team will also learn how to make your new or redesigned online experience as engaging, inspiring, safe and complete as it can be while conveying the congregational identity and values of your church.
Frequently Asked Questions
We have already started working on our new website or redesign. Can we still benefit from your planning session?
Yes! We will help your church ensure that you have covered all the bases to get the best results. Our team will be happy to come on board at any stage of your website’s development.
We are already working with a web developer, but we need some extra help. Do you work with other experts?
Absolutely. If you have already chosen your development or interactive agency, we can assist at any stage of your website’s development process to help you accelerate and optimize your website’s build and successful launch.
A web developer is building our site, but we are unhappy with the results to date. Can you help us?
Our team is experienced in almost every platform used today. We can jump in and help you get back on track from a project management perspective, and also provide your church with any technical support and actual development it might need to complete the project.
Our site is almost complete, but we need training to learn how to manage it after launch. Do you do that?
Yes! We are also offering a limited number of webmaster sessions with which your team can learn about every aspect of your new website and how to manage it. These sessions are also being scheduled for the first quarter of 2024, so please contact us promptly.
We’re ready to get started. How does it work?
- Please fill out the form below. Once we receive your information, we will contact you to discuss your specific needs and schedule the session.
- Approximately two weeks prior to the session, we will contact you again with an agenda for your review and approval.
- Once you have approved the agenda, we will reconfirm the session’s time and date.
- The session takes place, either for half or an entire day, on the date chosen, at your location, at no charge
