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February 8, 2009

Isn’t the Yellow Pages Enough?

A lot of churches are still depending on old-fashioned phone book ads instead of internet technology to get their church name out into the community.
Well, it looks like the Yellow Pages are about to become obsolete…

This year will be pivotal for the global Yellow Pages industry. Much
like newspapers, print Yellow Pages will continue [...]

December 25, 2008

Yet another example…

Here’s a simpler design from Calvary Baptist Bible Church in Peoria with a single menu and a wide left column.
The theme used is a modification of techland by WordPress Themeland.

December 13, 2008

When to call in an expert…

There comes a point in any field of expertise when our reach exceeds our grasp. We’re all capable of changing a light bulb but most of us wouldn’t undertake rewiring our home’s electrical system. It’s not too hard to do your own oil changes but rebuilding the car’s transmission may be a bit too ambitious.
The [...]

November 20, 2008

Stuff for Standalone Sites

Here are a few resources worth checking out if you’re running a stand-alone WordPress church site…
organizedthemes.com has a decent roundup of five WordPress plugins to help your church website. Not to be outdone Church Communications Pro has a list of six plugins along the same lines.
Revolution Design has released a free version of their church [...]

October 25, 2008

Putting Sermons On Your Website

Unfortunately, sites hosted at WordPress.com cannot use the nifty flash-enabled players that make embedding audio so easy on sites hosted elsewhere. Nonetheless, it is possible to put sermon audio on your church website using some fairly simple techniques.
1. SermonPlayer.com
Even though you can’t embed their flash player, SermonPlayer.com still provides some great options as long as [...]

September 1, 2008

10 Best Church WordPress Themes?

Living Open Source Has a list of what they consider the 10 best WordPress themes for church websites.
Check ‘em out!

September 1, 2008

Why Use WordPress For Your Church Website?

Church Communications Pro has a great article on why you should use WordPress to run your church’s website.
In summary they are:
1. It’s a free content management system
2. It’s easy to use
3. The search engine love it
4. There are thousands of free templates available
5. You’re in control of it
I heartily agree. I’ve been using WordPress for [...]