How to Create a Free Church Website
A church website is a great way for your congregation to make its presence known in your community. While there are several inexpensive web hosting services available, there are also many no-cost options as well. Many of the free church website hosting services also offer design templates, which means that nobody on your church staff needs to know HTML in order to create an attractive church website.
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Instructions
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Look online for a free web hosting service. Your denomination may provide local churches with free website hosting on its own servers. There are also several free hosting services that specialize in church websites.
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Find out how long a web hosting service has been in business. You don't want your site hosted by a company that will go out of business next week, taking your site with it.
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Check on the features offered by the hosting company. Does it offer web design templates? If the hosting services specializes in churches, does it have a search-able directory of the churches that use its services? How much space is included with a free site? Are there restrictions on the amount of traffic your site can have? Does the hosting service run ads on your site? Are you comfortable with the ads?
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Gather the information that you want on your website. This should include things like the names of your ministers and church staff, photographs of the church, service times, and information about your church's denominational affiliation and beliefs.
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Organize the site by putting basic information about your church on the first page of the site, and then creating other pages on different topics. For example, your homepage could include a picture of your church, service times, and your church's address. Then you can place buttons on your site that link to separate pages on your church's kids programs, sermon transcripts, and specialized ministries.
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Tips & Warnings
To make it easier for people to find your church's website, consider getting a domain name. Domain names aren't free, but are both inexpensive and essential if you want to use your church's website as a promotional tool.
References
- Photo Credit church. Entrance of a church image by L. Shat from Fotolia.com
