Comments on: 5 Things that heal your church website

By: AdamW

AdamW — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:53:50 +0000

I agree that content is vital. I have seen far too many church and ministry web sites containing very little Christian or Biblical content. If more churches and ministries got back to the command of Christ to spread His Gospel to the nations, I believe their web sites would reflect this in their content.

By: Rafa

Rafa — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:02:03 +0000

I am very glad to see you are back posting.

A sad and common experience I have had is to create a CMS Church website (like with Joomla) upon the Pastor’s request, just to see nobody maintaing the site, even for simple things like events.

By: Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:42:09 +0000

Hi Karen. As well as holding blog posts, WordPress can also have “static” pages. This makes it especially good for a church website, as you can use the “static” pages for things that don’t change very often (e.g. “Our church is on 123 Main Street. Click here for Google Maps”) and blog entries for things that are time sensitive (e.g. “The minister’s wife needs volunteers for the potluck supper next Tuesday.”)

You *can* develop a WordPress blog on your own PC, and then upload it. But to do that, you’d need to install not just WordPress locally but also a local web server and MySQL, so that you are replicating the environment your web host has. Personally, I’d rather construct the site “live” on your webhost. And just stick it behind a password-protected entry page if you don’t want people to see what you’re up to until it’s finished.

Hope this helps. <=x

By: Karen Crosby

Karen Crosby — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:05:30 +0000

I need help. I am a minimally prepared “webmaster” for our church. The website is desperately in need of a complete do-over. I have expert advice that WordPress is the way to approach this process, however, WordPress and “blog” are always mentioned in the same phrase. Does that mean that the website is basically a blog, not a “full-service” web page? I’m also confused by the first steps in the “5 minute download”. Can I download wordpress and experiment with site construction before I upload to my host?
Thanks for listening, I know these are very simplistic questions.
Karen in RI