Web Site Design for Churches

Resources

Build your own Web site services
WordPress ($ and free): www.wordpress.com

Web sites for churches (free): www.forministry.com/, www.ourchurch.com/

Discussion group for Disciples webmasters:
https://secure.disciples.org/discuss/webmasters/
Check in to get Web help, tips and ideas.

General Web resources
Web Style Guide
A real information gold mine for creating professional, navigable sites, and the importance of template design.

• Designing church Web sites: www.hirr.hartsem.edu/cong/cong_designing_church_sites.html
• Design 101 in 7 steps: ecommerce.internet.com/solutions/ectips/article/0,1467,6311_753651,00.html
• Top 10 good deeds in web design: www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html
• Web Accessibility: www.cast.org/bobby/ (WebXact) or www.w3.org/WAI/ or www.section508.gov/ or usability.gov/
• Link checks: validator.w3.org/
• Usability: usability.gov/
• HTML Writers Guild: www.hwg.org/resources/
• HTML tutorial, guidelines, validation: www.w3.org/MarkUp/
• ABCs of building a Web site: www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/abcs_of_building_web_sites.html
• Web tools: www.webdevelopersjournal.com/software/webtools.html
• Register your Web address (domain name): www.networksolutions.com or www.godaddy.com
• Find out who has the domain name you want: www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois