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.