Website Options for Your Church or Ministry
If your church or ministry doesn’t have a website, it’s time to get on board. And now, people have less excuses than ever to actually implement one.
Here are a few options that have been around for sometime:
1. Cloversites.com
Out of these top three options, I think Clover Sites is making the best product out there right now for a variety of reasons. Here’s a good reason. They have mobile versions of your site that are built automatically. They have a killer video player that’s coming out soon. Check this out to see more of their options coming soon.
A lot of these are pretty nice. But I recently found out about another major player out there called SquareSpace.com Square Space is a combination of web-host, website designer, and church management system. If you go to their page they have some seriously nice-looking sites on there.
There are a few advantages to using a system like this:
1. It’s WYSIWYG: You can log into the back end, select a template, and edit stuff using a “What you see is what you get” editor. So if you don’t know how to mess with the code, you can make professional edits that look good.
2. It’s much cheaper: They have an option that would cost churches $14 per month. This is much cheaper than paying $500-1000 for a one time setup fee for the other guys, and then having hosting fees that cost about $20 per month.
3. For those that know how to mess with code, you can add in and mess with the code to fully customize your template as much as you want.
There are some big names out there using SquareSpace for their websites, across many different industries. I suggest you take a look.
Have anyone ever used SquareSpace or considered it?
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WOW! This is a great blog.
I wanted to drop by and thank you for ranking BridgeElement.com #3 on your list of church website design companies. It means a lot that influential people are starting to notice the work we do for growing churches and ministries.
As a thank you gesture to you and your readers, we would like to offer a $100 rebate (for the next 90 days) to anyone that mentions this blog when they purchase a Bridge Element website for $499
Again thank you for recognizing our effort to help churches connect with their communities in creative ways.
Glad we could help! This blog is in transition at the moment. It was just moved over from blogger. It doesn't even have our title graphic up yet, but it's on its way.
Thanks for the discount for the readers. I'll give it a shout out in the next blog post!