If you follow the blog here, you know that I consult churches on various web and audio/visual projects with my firm, Simple Drive Church Media Solutions.

All of these things have a place on your church’s website, just not the front page.

1. Mugshot of your lead/senior pastor | sorry Vineyard churches. Ask yourself if your church is about the community or about a single leader. Maybe a photo of your fearless leader in action is OK, but I would avoid it all together. Put some photos of real people in your church or something else.
2. Photo of your building | Again, what is your church about? A building or people? If you’re itching to show off your churches architectural game, drop a photo of people worshiping in your epic venue.
3. Your mission/vision/purpose statement | When you first meet someone at a coffee shop, do you spit your purpose statement right at them? No, you introduce yourself and speak right to them. Do the same thing on your web page.
4. Donation button | When people visit your church, do you take the offering right there in the lobby on the way in? Put a link to your donation page in the menu instead.
5. Anything that makes noise or plays music automatically | If visitors want to watch that video or play that song/sermon, give them the option. Also do away with any noise that goes along with your navigation. We know you spent a lot on that flash design, but it’s annoying.

Am I missing anything?

Creative Chaos #25

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Up until now the Simple Drive Media Solutions web site has been a case of the cobbler’s children not having shoes. Well, last week we finally put something up. It’s coming together. The truth of the matter is that it has been super busy around here. We have some cool projects in the works.

Simple Drive is a side project that I have been working on since the fall. We have found a need for mid size churches in the area of media. Small churches tend to not have a desire or vision to improve their communications, web presence and A/V systems and big churches are generally using an in house solution or have the budget to out source. Where does that leave the rest of you. It has been cool to see churches getting on board with new media, some just need a little pushing.

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