Tuesday, January 30, 2007

New Website Design

Check out the new website for New Season Church. Many thanks to Matt Montoro of Third Stream Music/ Design for his creative ability in making this a reality.

There are many sites out there that will give you some good ideas about how to do church websites (which many churches need). But here are some things we used to help lead us in design.

  • We wanted to keep it fairly simple. The tendency is to get too cluttered and try to convey too much information. A person looking at your site will only spend a few seconds to look at it before moving on.
  • We wanted to serve two purposes. The prinmary purpose was to provide people who are thinking of attending New Season with a taste of who we are. An ancillary purpose was to provide a place for regular attendees to get info (previous messages, sign up info, etc).
  • We recognized that our site had to be taken up a notch because this is the first place people who are searching are going to look before they decide to check out New Season. This is in many respects our first impression.

Like I said you can Google "church website design recommendations" and get all kinds of good advice, these are just some of the things we used to guide us.

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