One of the most cost effective ways to get visitors to come to your church is through your church website. There are many ways to reach out to attract new visitors to your church. Outreach can be done through personal invitation, mailings, radio and television ads, billboards, newspaper and magazine ads and signs. In most cases, a person who hears about your church will get on the internet to check out your church website. Whether they can find your church website and what it looks like will determine whether they come to visit your church. A church website is an extremely cost effective way of directly reaching out to those searching on the internet for a church, as well as those who have been made aware of your church through some other outreach means.

In order for visitors to come to your church after viewing your church website, they must first find the website. Having no church website is seen by more and more people as representing a dying and out of touch church. However, even if you have a church website, people need to be able to find it. A person who types in the name of your church and your city into Google should find your church in the first page of listings if your website is correctly designed. In fact, typing in the phrase “churches in your city” into Google should bring up your church in the first few pages of listings, if your church website has been properly contructed with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind. Top Church Websites constructs custom church websites so they can be found in the search engines.

Once a person finds your website, they must be able to interact with an up-to-date web design that accurately represents your unique church and answers any questions your web visitor may have. Many churches still have older websites designed more than five years ago. These older designs are generally static websites that are difficult to update without specialized software and knowledge and so are often out of date. State of the art church web design now uses content management systems, which make updating the website easy for multiple staff members with a web browser. This technology makes it time effective to keep a website up to date with information on all the ministries your church has to offer. Web visitors can view photos of your church events, listen to your pastor’s messages or even watch a video of your Sunday service. With a Top Church Websites custom church web design, visitors can check out your church calendar, interact with an online poll or download last Sunday’s bulletin. Offering an attractive and functional website will bring many visitors to your Sunday services eager to learn more about God at your church.

We believe that the importance of a good church website to the growth of a church cannot be overemphasized. However, a good church website can also assist you in building your church community, communicating with your members and providing a members-only area. A members-only area can be used to distribute information that would not be appropriate to make available to the public. For example, this members-only area could hold information for various ministry teams, church directories, small group and discipleship materials. A good church website builds your member’s pride in their church and makes it easier for them to reach out to invite friends and relatives to the church as well.

Any church, no matter what size, should invest in a custom church website, if they want to grow numerically and spiritually. Your investment in your church website will pay for itself many times over in just a year or two. Don’t settle for a cheap template site that doesn’t represent your unique church or make it possible for your website to continue to grow with your church. We encourage you to consider a custom church CMS web design from Top Church Websites to empower your church for growth.

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A CMS church website is a dynamic site in which the design and the content is separated. The content is stored in a database. The webpages are dynamically generated from the design template and the database content when a visitor requests the page with their web browser. The operation and updating of a CMS church website is controlled by software running on a web server. The content management system websites that Top Church Websites creates use PHP software with MySQL databases and run on Apache web servers using the Linux operating system. A dynamic CMS church website has many advantages over a static church website.

The biggest advantage of a CMS church website over a static church website is that the CMS software allows church staff or volunteers to easily update the website content. The updating of content is simplified because the CMS software is designed to be accessed through a web browser rather than professional software. Since the content is separate from design in a CMS website, updating of content is as easy as working in a word processor. Well designed CMS software, such as that used by Top Church Websites, allows different levels of access control to updating the website. Thus, the site administrator can designate various types of users, such as Author, Editor, Publisher and Manager, each of which has different permissions regarding updating content.

For example, the content that an Author or Editor creates, must be approved by a Publisher or higher level user before it is actually published to the website. This allows multiple people to be easily involved in updating the sections of the website that they are responsible for. The end result is distribution of the website tasks and more comprehensive and up to date content. Content publishing by the church staff relieves the necessity of paying a web professional to continually update content. However, since the CMS software is constantly being updated to deal with security threats as well as changes in web browsers, software languages and database operation, minimal monthly maintenance and support fees are required to keep everything running smoothly.

The separation of design and content in a CMS church website, also leads to another advantage. The redesign of a static website would generally be almost the same price as the design of a new website. However, since the content and design is separated in a CMS church website, the design can be changed with virtually no change needed in the content or the CMS data setup. Thus, a new design can be created, giving an entirely new look to the church website for about half the price of an entirely new site. Smaller changes in the design would take even less work.

Other advantages to a CMS church website include the availability of a wide range of functionality and special features to enhance your church website. The access control mentioned above makes possible the creation of webpages that can only be seen by Registered users. Thus, you can easily create members-only sections of the website that are invisible to non-registered users. This section could contain things such as church directories, specific church ministry and members-only information and downloads that you do not want available to the general public. As the CMS church software used by Top Church Websites is constantly being improved, new functionality and special features will be made available to our clients on an ongoing basis.

The custom content management system (CMS) church websites created by Top Church Websites will prepare your church to communicate God’s message today and in the future. There is no reason to continue to use outdated static church websites or inferior templated church CMS systems. Communicate the message that God has given you with a powerful custom CMS church website from Top Church Websites.

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