When looking to build a church
website, it is always important to start with the Church
Design. This is the beginning of the project and involves
your vision of the presentation. How important is this in
the end - believe it or not, it is not very important. The
only important aspect of a design is to have a professional
look. As long as it is not a poor design, your users do
not care about much else. They are coming to your website
to see your content, not your design.
What is interesting is that websites
that have too much design actually lose on the web because
those designs may cause the page to load slower and this
can lose over 50% of their traffic within the first 30 seconds.
We find this statistic very important and take this into
consideration when we build Church
Designs for our system. The other interesting fact is
that as a design gets more complex, so does the ability
to use the website effectively as menus are harder to find,
see and use.
CharityAdvantage
cares very much about how your website looks and we consider
that church
design are an important part of the process. However,
we like to balance that with the ease of usability or functionality
as it is called in the web world and this includes the navigation
system both in looks and how it functions. The white content
area of a web page is the most important part so even though
you may focus on your church
website design, please also spend more time on your
content so your users can have a meaningful experience and
your website will be a greater success. |