When someone comes to you for advice, you try your best to help them succeed and make them feel supported. And when they take your advice, it feels good to know how much they trust you!
So when that friend, acting on your guidance, takes a big, awesome step in their life––you feel proud. Proud of your friend for accomplishing something and being so bold, and hopeful they continue on their great new journey.We are like proud beaming parents when one of our ministry partners launches a new church website. We get to work with some of the most kind, loving people around, and help them build their church family and ministry online. How incredibly blessed are we?
Let’s turn the spotlight on some of those churches who have worked hard to showcase and grow their ministry online with new church websites. These 4 church websites launched this past quarter, and we couldn’t be prouder of how dedicated and innovative their teams have been! Can you picture your church’s website with some of these features and design ideas?
4 Beautiful New Church Website Launches
St. Albert Alliance Church
This church website is an example of how a tailored design can strike a great balance between budget and customization needs. We tailored the theme (ten Boom) to meet St. Albert’s needs for a more robust navigation menu and to adapt some of the functionality of the site. The menu became larger and brighter, directing the visitor to other pages. Also, this site boasts a great color scheme. Overall, it’s easy to use and looks beautiful.
Bell Shoals Baptist Church
With a large network of campuses, Bell Shoals set out to create a custom church website that would streamline the user experience without losing focus on its ministry. The “Campus Locations” in the main menu navigation––as well as the Welcome content below the first scroll on the homepage––do just that. For multi-site churches, this website structure allows a visitor to choose a location, then see the website through that lens, or just keep viewing the website without choosing a location.
Bell Shoals also has some custom homepage elements. When you haven't chosen a campus yet, the page actually prompts you to make a decision. Once you've chosen the campus, you get campus-specific content on the homepage. The majority of its content is global, but the Get Connected and Ministries pages are campus-specific. When you "select a home campus," these menu items automatically update to show content from the the corresponding campus.
Click on over and navigate through their website yourself to get a feel for the type of structure Bell Shoals chose!
New Hope Community Church
Our most recently designed theme, Spurgeon, was a great fit for New Hope Community Church’s website. The theme is visually engaging, and highlights the people of New Hope prominently throughout the site. Animations, like those slide-ins under “Community Devotions” give an extra pop to the site without overwhelming a visitor. And, best of all, the most important information is easy for visitors to get to directly from the homepage.
LifePoint Church
The e360 Theme, Wycliff, was a great choice for LifePoint Church. The rotators on the homepage are visual and engaging, and the repetition of the words is great for user experience and identifying the points in LifePoint’s mission. The About Us and FAQ pages are particularly well laid-out and easy for visitors to navigate––especially new visitors who haven’t heard much about the church yet.
