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Discount For Building Your Church Website!

In this post I wrote about some website options for your church or ministry. I mentioned several companies out there that are offering very high quality templates that your church can use. They’re systems that you can begin using almost immediately.

One of them was Bridge Element. I just got word from them that they want to offer a $100 discount to readers of Modern Ekklesia when you purchase their $499 website system. The offer is good for the next 90 days. Just tell them we sent you.

Seems like a pretty nice offer to me.

So if you don’t currently have a website or are looking to implement one soon, the clock is ticking. 90 days. Tick…tock…tick…

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.

2. Ekklesia360.com

3. BridgeElement.com

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?