2 Criitcal Items for a Successful Church Website
Managing a church website can be a headache, but every time someone comes to church and I ask, "How did you find out about the Bridge?" and they say... "From the website." It makes your hours of tweaking and writing and cropping worth it. With that said here are 2 things that are absolute musts if you are going to launch a successful church website.
1. The Site Must be Easy to Update.
If you have to know HTML or PHP or even use FTP to update the site, it can be a drag to update. In my experience you need to have a site that is a some content management system of sorts and one that is easy enough for your church secretary to update (if you have a church secretary!) The guy in your church that knows something about computers might be great but if he or she can't set you up with something that is super easy to maintain then I would suggest look further.
2. Someone committed to updating.
You need a living breathing human being to log in and make changes to the website. Yes there are all sorts of dynamic sort of javascript flash based "thing-a-ma-bobs" that can pull in content to your site, but your church is an organism and you should think of your website in the same way. Your church website needs on going care and attention.
There are a lot of other things you want to have to make your website a success, but these TWO in my opinion are absolutely critical. They seem obvious but can be easily overlooked.
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