We’ve been using a little digital recorder in the pulpit to record the pastor’s sermons and posting them on our church website. And so far, so good.
We bought the Olympus WS-400s at Office Max for about $60. It has a built in microphone, two recording quality settings, and 1 gb memory for up to 170 hrs [...]

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Recently I’ve been investigating how to add a “Donate Now” feature to four different non-profit websites which I help maintain. One is a church, another is a local soup kitchen ministry, another is a school for the disabled, and the fourth is rotation.org -the free Sunday School lessons site.
There are many options, all of them pretty [...]

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Do you have a church library you’d like  to be able to BROWSE online, search for resources, and request materials?
Would you like for users of your church library to get automatic emails about new resources?
Would you like to do that FREE and EASY?
…then read this article:
Church volunteers and librarians frequently email me asking “how to put their [...]

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Elsewhere in this “building a better church website” thread I’ve mentioned some good tips about domain names (web addresses) for your church. But now I want to address WHO should register the domain name, HOW it should be registered, and why it’s important for the church to GET CONTROL of the domain name account from the beginning.
Case [...]

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Creating a Church Website with Wordpress
an article by Neil MacQueen, Sunday Software
Below is the ABBREVIATED VERSION of the article originally posted at www.sundaysoftware.com/wordpress.htm
This article will be updated at www.sundaysoftware.com/wordpress.htm
Why suggest Wordpress as a way to create a church website? There are a lot very good reasons…
First, I’m a realist. I’ve created several websites and two [...]

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For a lot of reasons…..  It’s time your church had an email newsletter. In fact, maybe it’s time your church got RID of its MAILED newsletter.  Many have, –sending out one or two email newsletters a month, and placing print copies of the email newsletters on tables after worship for those who don’t have email or [...]

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I’ll keep adding to this list…
http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/    A blog with some funny stuff, insight, and technical helps.
www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/web_sites/ This site is awesome, and it has edgy truth about Church websites too.
www.sundaysoftware.com/webpage.htm  “Building a Better Church Website”  …my main article on the subject. Read it.
http://www.greatchurchwebsites.org/tw_tips.php  70 Tips for Church Websites.
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Code Snippet: “Email a Link to this Page to a Friend”
Helping members share church website information with each other and their friends is not only a nice thing to do, it’s a form of evangelism. So, say you’re putting up a page about the children’s group, or upcoming church concert or picnic.  Add this code [...]

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This post is a condensation of my article “Building a Better Church Website” located at www.sundaysoftware.com/webpage.htm
You might be surprised by what I consider to be a “GOOD” church website. It’s not one with all the bells and whistles. I’ve been creating websites for about ten years, including building my former church’s website. And what I’ve [...]

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I’m often asked if there is an easy way to create a nice photo album for the church website. 
The answer is “YES.”
Most church websites are seriously lacking in photos. Yet in my experience, they are the most appreciated and viewed feature on the church website. Members love them. They help tell your story. They serve as [...]

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At my former church, I spent a couple of years as a volunteer building and making improvements to their website. (I was also involved in the CE program there too). At the request of the pastor, I took it over from a volunteer who I had actually seen sitting in front of the church’s computer with an [...]

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They’re all over the web: ”Live Chat Now,” ”Chat Now with a Customer Service Rep.”
I put one on my company’s www.sundaysoftware.com website and my customers really like it.
I work in front of my computer every day, so it makes sense for me to be available to “chat now” with people who are visiting my site, looking for [...]

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