Designing Church Websites

Designing a church web site that can reach outsiders

Research shows that relatively few church websites are really accessible to outsiders. Yet a church web site which is designed with non-Christians as its first priority, can be very effective in reaching out into the community.

Internet Evangelism Day's church website resources are designed to help your church develop its website to reach non-Christians. Our main links on designing church website are:

• Church Website Free Evaluation Report - this self-assessment questionnaire enables you to score your church website design online, and pinpoint areas of the design which could be developed in order to better relate to outsiders. A particular emphasis is the importance of testing the website. Fill in the questionnaire, and get a free evaluation report about your church website. The page can be syndicated into any other website with a few lines of javascript insertion code, and it can also be freely published in print media.
• 70+ Church Website Tips - a page of 70+ tips which build on the principles explained in the self-assessment design tool. This page can also be inserted into any other website, or published in print media.
• Building church websites - more links to a range of church website resources including the very strategic white paper on church websites (PDF document).

There are also a wide range of other strategies for using the Web to share the good news. Our website aims to demonstrate the huge potential of this new medium. One key fact: you do not need to be technical to do web evangelism!