11 Best Church Website Articles of 2011

Everyone loves a good year-end "best of" list. We at iMinistries are no different. Here are our favorite blog entries of 2011, each one packed with great advice, tips, and tricks to improve your church website.

John Maxwell on Websites: Communicating vs. Connecting In his book, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, leadership guru John Maxwell talks about the difference between communicating with people and actually connecting with them at a deeper level. While reading this book, I found that many of the strategies he uses for connecting with others in social interactions and speaking engagements can be used for ministry and church websites. Read more >>
5 Ways to Improve Your Church Website, Gordon Ramsay Style Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has a potty mouth. He also has a tested method of saving failed restaurants. See how his process can help make your church website better. Read more >>
5 Types of People You Need To Make a Great Church Website It takes a village to raise a child. But it only takes a few motivated people to make your church website a success. Here are the people you need on your web team. Or you could luck out and meet a person with all these traits. Read more >>
10 Mistakes Not to Make on Your Church Website Here are the most common mistakes made by church websites. Be sure you don't make them. Read more >>
4 Calls to Action Your Church Website Should Have Your church website is more than just pretty graphics and flowery text. It should be a catalyst for action. When visitors land on your home page, they should be prompted to do something. We call these prompts "calls to action." Read more >>
4 Reasons Your Church Website Should Tell Your Story One of your church website's primary goals should be to explain who you are and what you strive to do. Most websites simply create a few pages in their About Us section to achieve this goal, writing out their mission and beliefs in lists or bullets. This can be an effective way of telling your values, but a better way is to show your values at work in the lives of people? Read more >>
4 Questions You Should Answer on Your Church Website's Home Page When users come to your home page, they often come wanting four specific questions answered. It's your job as web administrator to make sure these questions are answered immediately, and without creating other questions in the user's mind, or risk losing the visitor to frustration. Read more >>
Your Church Website's Reservoir of Goodwill (and 3 Ways to Keep it Full) Your website visitors enter your site wanting something--your service times, your location, to contact you--and each obstacle they encounter decreases their experience satisfaction level (a Reservoir of Goodwill, if you will). Read more >>
4 Free Tools to Test Your Church Website's Usability Here are four free and easy-to-implement tools that will give you insights on your website's user experience from real, unbiased sources (actual website visitors). Read more >>
4 Steps to Treating (Not Tricking) Your Church Website Visitors Your church website visitors are no different than the costumed children who go house to house during Halloween--give them what they came for, or they're moving on. Read more >>
4 Things the First Thanksgiving Can Teach us About Church Websites Since history can be studied to teach us lessons for the future, I thought it would be fun to see what the first Thanksgiving could teach us about church websites. Read more >>