3 Quick Tips to Improve Your Home Page
Is your home page not as effective as it could be? Here are three easy ways to improve it.

4 Tips for Creating Great Page Layouts
It's difficult to create a layout that is attractive, well-organized, and easy for visitors to absorb. Here are four top tips to help you in creating effective layouts.

10 Tips for a Better Website
Why do some sites suceed while the majority of others fail? The answers are frequently more obvious than you may think.

12 Ideas for Your Church Website
Provided by the Good News Web Designers Association.

Building a Showcase Website
Showcases are a staple of the American shopping experience. They’re designed to grab the attention of shoppers enough to make them want to stop and look. Hopefully what they see will draw them inside the store, where the items of interest are easily found, resulting in a purchase. Our websites should follow the same guidelines, but few really do. The author describes the four steps involved in creating a showcase website.

Catch ‘Em Quick
My research shows that most web surfers only scroll down on about 25 percent of the web pages that they visit. Clearly, it is vital that you catch their attention quickly. If the top of your page captures their attention, they are much more likely to view the rest of the page.

Chat Room, Instant Messaging, and E-mail Witnessing
Online real-time interaction in a chat room can be a highly effective form of witness.It is important to be sensitive and wise without arguing. Some people visit chat rooms together with a friend to help each other and also pray for each other. Bulletin boards and email discussion lists can also be a place to share faith - though it is best when it is appropriate to the topic of the board.

Christian Website Usability
Tips on making your website easier to use. This applies to websites in general as well as Christian websites, though some parts of the article deal specifically with Christian websites.

Church Website Design Tips: Things Not to Do
David Gllaspey, president and founder of Great Church Websites, offers this short list of items that every church should avoid on its website.

Create a Church Website
Homespun advice for beginning webmasters by Bobbie Lee Pugh, webservant at Wrightsboro Baptist Church, Wilmington, North Carolina.

Dancing on the Web
Resources and an online tutorial to help you create your church's website.

Design Tips for Your Web Page
For maximum impact and user friendliness, keep the following guidelines in mind when designing your web presence.

Designing a Church Website: Basic Principles
Setting goals, planning the look, and including the elements that lead to a website with style and class.

Designing Above the Fold
The "above the fold" part of a web page (especially of the home page) is the most valuable real estate you have on your website.

Designing Congregational Websites
Hartford Institute for Religion Research offers these extensive thoughts about creating a congregational website and the process by which a congregation makes decisions regarding the content and character of its site.

Discovering Great Church Websites
This interview with David Gillaspey of Great Church Websites provides a behinds-the-scenes look and practical tips with great encouragement towards great church website design!

Does Your Website Attract Young Families?
Many young families will visit your website before they ever come inside your building. What they find there will determine whether they visit your church. Is your current website designed to handle this?

Getting Started Questions
Asking the right questions is an essential step in developing a strong Web ministry presence. Here are a few to get you started.

Hidden Treasures—Good or Bad?
Is your site full of hidden treasures? Let's hope not. Treasures, good. Hidden, bad. If your site's visitors can't navigate effortlessly through all parts of your site, your Web presence isn't as effective as it could be. A well-designed navigation system is a critical component of any successful website.

It Takes Time to Maintain a Parish Website
How much time should be budgeted for an in-house parish website manager? How much time is needed to maintain the site after the initial development is complete? The answer to this depends on your goals, which need to be determined. Here are guidelines.

Make Your Site’s Navigation Options Highly Visible
Effective navigation stands out. It's clear, obvious, and highly visible. You'll need to have a clear section of the page designated for navigation—one that a visitor will immediately recognize as the navigation area when he arrives at the site. Navigation should not necessarily be the prime focus, but it must be highly visible.

Making Your Church Website Great
Here’s another useful website on the topic of creating good church websites—Great Church Websites, which aims to inspire church webmasters to excellence by highlighting praiseworthy church websites.

Making Your Website a Powerful Tool
While many churches are rushing in to make sure they have a website, the real question should be “How can our website create a vital connection to unchurched families in the community?”

Psychology of Web-Design Color
Color is a very important element in your Web site. Have you ever been to a page that had a yellow background and bold red text? How long did you stay there? If you're anything like me—colour challenged—this and other articles in my series on color may be of some assistance.

Seven Most Frequent Design Mistakes
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The Starting Point in Creating Your Church Website
The starting point in creating your own church website must be to think about your possible audience. The question to ask is why new people might come to the church and then design your site to encourage this to happen.

Ten Ways to Speed Up Download Time
One important component of accessibility is the time it takes your site to load. Experiment with some of the ideas to see how they affect your page's load time.

The Three Core Principles of Great Web Design
Gerry McGovern, author of the article “The Three Core Principles of Great Web Design,” discusses how self-service is essential in the survival of a website. She defines convenience, speed and price as they pertain to a website and discusses how they fit into the success of a website.

Top 3 Tips for Planning a Redesign
If you've had a website for two or three years and are considering a redesign, here are three top tips to help with your planning.

Web Content—Why it Should be First on Your To-Do List
If you're going to have a website, you have to have content. Content encompasses everything you publish on your website. Your site's content is more than important—it's vital.

Web Page Design: An Experiences Visitor’s Point of View
There are certain things that make a web page easy to navigate and still others that will chase away visitors. Below are some tips indicating elements that should be in place in every web page in your site.

Website Accessibility
What is "accessibility" and why is it important? For us, as Christian webmasters, these questions should be especially important. Out of Christian love we should strive to make our websites as accessible as we can.

Website Redesign—From Stagnation to Rejuvenation
Many church websites today suffer from stagnation—they look old, obsolete, or amateurish. You need to constantly upgreade website to capture and engage your visitor's attention.

What Makes a Good Church Website
Someone in the newsgroup uk.religion.christian once asked Gareth McCaughan, "What do you look for in a church website"? Here’s his response.

What To Design Into Church Websites
Recently, the CWM Community members put together a list of what kinds of features can or should go on a church website. Read what they recommend.