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Click to go back to the site, to the collection of free Christian website templates and our nice church website design.Would you hire us to implement a religious website template on your site?
The fact is that a lot of people download one of our religious website templates from our site but not everybody know how to actually implement it on their website. This is not that simple as it may look like and the best way to do it is actually to hire a professional who can do it for you so you get the right results.
The only thing to consider here is that, if you are actually looking for a free religious template, you will still need to pay for the service of actually implementing the template on your site. The good thing is that if you pay for such a service you make sure that you get a good result, because a professional would know what to do. There are things that a professional would handle correctly when implementing a religious web template, like for example making sure everything looks right, making sure the template validates and works in all major browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firewfox or Google Chrome, making sure all the links work, etc.
So, would you hire us to implement the religious website template you just downloaded on your site?
Church website templates became a real business
Indeed, it was a surprise even for me that in the last period, church website templates became so popular. If you want to check it out for yourself, just watch the ads that Google displays when you search for such terms. It is crazy, really!
The fact is that I am happy about it, church templates were always good business, meaning that there was a market for them, but these days there are so many people involved into it that it’s hard to find your direction without knowing what exactly you are looking for.
Our site, MagicTemplate.com was and will remain a very important source for church website templates and we will do our best to make it grow and we’ll do our best to expand the collection of web themes so churches can find what they are looking for.
The fact is that we plan to expand our service by adding several other services, like for example custom web development and design for people who don’t have the required knowledge to implement such a template on a church website.
At this moment our team of professional developers can stand up to the challenge and deliver great results so our church web templates find their place on your site the best possible way.
Build a church website to get more visitors!
I was thinking these days if the financial crisis affected churches and their capabilities to invest in a website. I mean, building a site, even with cheaper solutions, needs money and in this crisis, money is not always something easy to find.
People look in every direction nowadays for some extra money, to save and not spend. I have seen people being so affected by this crisis that changed their lives forever.
So,considering this, I asked myself how churches look at this, how are churches affected by this crisis? Do they still find the money to buy a Christian template and build their website?
You know, I actually think that this may be a very good solution for them, because having a website may help their audience grow and more and more people will come to the church. The site will be a tool for promoting church activities and gathering more followers. I actually know this. You should speak to churches that recently built a web site, to see how this affected their overall audience. You should actually ask people that join your church, how did they find out about you, is the website responsible for this?
You will be surprised by how many people found out about you on the internet first!
Thoughts about Christian web design after holidays
After winter holidays passed, I can tell you a bit about how the internet activity has been and how it is this very day, in January. The fact is that some sales increased in December, it is actually normal, because most sales increase, so Christian web site templates also sell better. But in January, things are a bit slow in any business, so I expect that people wake up from this point of view a bit later, maybe now, after the first half of January.
The fact is that winter holidays are a very busy period for Christians and may be that web design and templates are not something very searched in that period, but now I expect people to start getting interested again about their church websites.
The fact is that in December, advertising was lower than usually since people were also willing to pay less for advertising, also possibly because of the general economic situation we are all in. I hope things will be better this year starting right now.
What are your feelings about it?
Build trust and the rest will follow
I have just posted an article on another site of mine about what is the most important feature of an ecommerce site and because it really connects to this field, Christian websites, I have decided to write about it here as well.
The fact is that it is not about ecommerce websites, it works great with Christian websites also, and with all types of websites out there. It works, because the most important feature of a site is not the look, not the most shiny template, not the most expensive engine, but the most important feature of a website is the level of trust you manage to transmit to your visitors. It works with ecommerce because you have there a measurable target, but it also works fine with all kinds of websites, because, even if you don’t realize, each site has a target. Like a Christian website, for example, the target could be to bring more people closer to God, to church, to faith. Isn’t this one of the greatest goals? Like another site I have, www.exersaucers.net that I am trying to build right now, exersaucer oriented, where I do my best to have an open relationship with my readers.
For this, people need to trust you and the site. People need to understand you are a real person behind the site, you need to understand that a site is a virtual world and the human touch sometimes is not there as it should be.
Maybe you are into blogging, well, in that case you should ask yourself why bloggers have so much success.It is because of the human touch most blogs transmit. A blog represents people, more than a regular, static website, so people will easily connect to a blog, because they understand the real people behind the site and will connect to them. It is all about trust, after all.
So, in order to have a successful site you need to build trust. That’s all it takes!
How about if I simplify the process of uploading free templates?
These days I keep on thinking about how to simplify the process of you sending templates to be published on this site. It should be as easy as possible, but so far I have understood from you that the process doesn’t seem straight forward, considering the fact that you need to register before sending anything.
The fact is that I prefered this because all the templates are displayed under a certain user credentials, the designers has the right to add and edit templates. But I just ask myself if it wouldn’t be easier to just let you send templates without any other data needed. No account, no nothing, just send the design you want.
I think that this way, the collection of Christian templates will grow easier than so far, because more of you will send free templates here.
What do you think, would it be better?
Religious website templates started to be a pretty crowded market
Well, yes, this is what I have observed in the last period of time, people look for religious website templates every day and more and more websites started to provide church templates and other Christian resources. Day by day, more websites get buit and give free religious templates.
This is a good thing since more and more people can find what they are looking for, more and more people can build their religious websites using free website templates downloaded from the internet.
However you need to ask yourselves about the quality pof such templates, given the fact that the number starts to be high and as you may know, the more you have, the less quality you get. But OK, being a lot, you can pick a few good religious templates from there and this is good.
2 easy ways to make your Christian website grow
One of the best advices I have heard about how to make a site grow is to make it useful and easy to spread and people will grow it. Well, doesn’t work just like this, but it helps a lot. Imagine you have a Christian site, well, you probably have already if you are here looking for some free Christian templates, and you want to grow it day by day. Then you would need to have an easy way to spread on the internet and the solution would be to have on each post a “send to a friend” option so whoever finds your site useful to send it easily to whoever might be interested. This way, without doing any effort, you can have your site promoted by your users wherever you wouldn’t expect.
Also, have the possibility to send your site to social media sites. If you have a free web template that you want to go public, just add buttons for voting it on Digg, on StumbleUpon and people with the same interests as you, religious websites will vote it. These are just 2 possbilities to make your site grow. Think about them!
Internet activity for Christian websites increases at this time of the year
Now that the summer is gone, I see that people came back and traffic is increaqsing, it is that autumn increase that we all love! Especially myself and my websites! The fact is that it depends from topic to topic, but the same thing applies to almost all websites, no matter they are Christian websites or not.
Over summer time, the internet activity slowly decreases and internet businesses also decrease over summer time, but now everything is back to normal, people start working on their websites again, they start promoting, start looking for web templates to build their websites, everything is better.
That is why, to all of you coming back to the internet at this time of the year, I just want to say Welcome back! It would be interesting to ask yourself how is your topic of the website doing, how it fluctuates over the year. If you have never asked yourself that question, ask yourself now and you may understand why your traffic goes a bit down over the summer.
How to build a community of Christian web designers?
As I said this before, one of the things that really run through my head is how to make this site more of a community, so everybody contribute to it. I think that if everybody would contribute to it, it would grow easier, the collection of Christian web templates would grow easier and more and more people will come to this site to download free templates.
If you have any ideas about how to make this community grow, I would be more than happy to listen to you!