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Some time ago I said I will not write again about Christian MySpace layouts, but lately more and more people entering my site look for them and I think about adding up a few of them. MySpace Christian layouts are really looked for and I am well ranked for them so I ask myself actually why not add a few?
That is because of the fact that the traffic is not high quality and they say it is better to have less traffic but high quality traffic than large but bad traffic and this is true. So far, the fact that I received quite a good number of visits from people looking for them, didn’t help me too much, after all. People come, people go, they don’t buy anything and they don’t download free religious templates either, they are kind of a “look around” visitors.
If you came to that site looking for Christian MySpace layouts and you feel you don’t recognize yourself and you think your visit here is useful, please accept my apologies, since I had no intention of making it sound bad, I just do a bit of analysis of my traffic. I receive here traffic that usually converts well either in purchasing premium Christian designs either downloading free church web design, which is the final target of this site, in terms of goals, but usually people looking for religious layouts don’t do either of those things. If you do, then you are welcome! Actually, if you are here for MySpace layouts and backgrounds, why don’t you look at our church web templates, maybe you will find a good use for some! Try them out, they are great, you know?
Christian templates became a crowded niche
To my surprise, I have observed that Christian templates became a busy niche! Church website templates, Christian websites, in general, became more than a market where there were not many people involved. Today, there are more sites providing Christian related templates, because people are more and more turned to religion and spirituality and people are asking for such Christian websites.
However, if you think about it, I am not afraid at all. First because we should not make a big thing out of it. Competition is good, right? Competition among sites offering Christian templates should not even be a big thing, we should all be partners and friends, right?
This is how I see it, after all. I know that we could also consider our websites as small businesses that compete against each other but I rather not look at it from this point of view. I just like to consider our sites aspart of a big friendly community of Christian sites.
Christian layouts can be similar to ecommerce website templates
I ask myself how many people realize the potential of a good layout when we speak about websites. Do you realize that the layout is the first thing a visitors sees when entering your website? When you have a Christian website, you should pick a good layout for it. And I am not speaking only about the colors and about how it looks from a color point of view, or how well it is designed. Not only!
When picking a good Christian website layout, you need to consider how information is structured, where to put the text, where to put the images, where to put the most important areas and informations. For example, if you have a news box that you want to stand out, where will you put it? You realize that the designer making the layout will put it where he will consider it looks better, but looking good is not the only condition, you should consider visibility, where user look first, etc. All these should be known by a good website designer that is also interested in ecommerce, and I will tell you why.
In ecommerce, all these things are studied and documented, because in ecommerce a good positioning means more money. The fact is that this can be applied to all the websites, including Christian websites, and this can be aplied when designing Christian layouts, believe me! Hot spots are there, no matter the domain of activity, just that in this case it is not about money but about users seeing your information and news. This is what I mean!
Study a bit ecommerce website templates and then come and apply what you have learned there, to designing Christian layouts, I think you would be happy with the results!
Christian website or not, don’t spread yourself too thin!
I have decided to share a small tip about site growing. This is because we are in this environment of websites and stuff. I know this is not necessarily related to religious sites or religion or spirituality or whatever you want. It is related to websites and, no matter you are here for a religion based design, a family website template or a charity website template, you want to build a site. Right? I thought so…
I know this tip because I do this mistake all the time: my advice to you is to always focus on one, maximum 2 websites and grow those sites. If you grow more websites at a time, you won’t be able to maintain them and that is a mistake. A website needs to grow and bring visitors, a website needs to be visited everyday by a lot of people. If you spend your time on 5-6 websites that you try to grow, you won’t make any of them big. I know because this is what I am fighting against! I have more websites, this Christian website is just one of them and the time spent to maintain them is large and I never have enough time to grow them correctly.
So, instead of growing 5-6 sites at a time, focus on one maximum 2 sites and bring them to whatever traffic you consider to be appropriate, and then move on to the next one! Never spread yourself thin! No matter if you are running a religion website or a soccer one!
Family website templates and charity templates, good to mention
I have started this website with the desire to provide religion oriented themes for sites and blogs, but soon I have observed the need of expanding this to other similar domains. So, I have soon started to provide family website templates and charity templates.
Family website templates are a great way to build a site for your family. I have seen lately more and more people that are interested in having a family web site, just that they don’t have web knowledge to start it from scratch so they rather pick a family web template and dress up a blog or something, in order to act as a virtual home for them. It is an initiative that I totally salute and support. This way, interaction between people will be better and people will speak on the internet too. Knowing you have shared your family pictures so your loved ones can see them it is a fun way of getting people together interested in internet. I love that, really!
Family website templates are good for getting people together, I can tell you that! Have a site for your family and give each member a subdomain and an email address, you will see how well things will work. Like in john.yourfamilydomain.com and john@yourfamilydomain.co. It is very fun and you can all communicate together using these addresses. Or mom@yourfamilydomain.com .
Wouldn’t that be fun?
Church web site themes can be adapted to whatever you wish
It is very interesting to see how people that are not necessarily looking for religious web templates run away when visiting this site. Of course, this site ranks well in some cases for searches such as free ecommerce website templates, other similar keywords and people entering this site, see that it is all for Christian communities, templates for Christian websites, and run away. Really!
I don’t want to discuss here the religious reason, because some run because of the religious profile of this website, but other I guess run because they suppose they won’t find anything they are looking for, unless they are looking for church website design.
I just want to tell them that our free website templates, even if they are religioun oriented and seem out of their regular niche, can be adapted to whatever they want. Can you imagine taking a Christian website theme and adapt it to something else? Like for ex an ecommerce animal template! Really, even if it seems so far aways, well, it is not. You can adapt it and still build your site using one of our designs.
There is no need to run away, folks! We won’t bite! Really! Look at how our themes are built. They usually contain some religious oriented images, that give he specific of the site and that particular image can be changed to whatever you like, it is like with the premium church templates that you see on our website.
Think smart! Have a free church website theme and use it for whatever you need. It is not expensive you know because…it is free!
Respect your favorite Christian web designer
How much are you actually willing to pay for a free website template for your religious website? I mean, not money, because it is free, so there is no money involved in this, just that there are other small contribution you should respect. For example, in some cases, people ask for a small contribution if you like to help the site grow.
In other cases, like with our site here, we ask you to keep that link back to our website as requested in our terms of use. It is the least you can do and it doesn’t cost you anything while for us it means the recognition of our work. Because we work for our religion based templates, you know…
Keeping the link back to us, in the bottom of your site, saying something like Christian templates, or free religious web templates or church web design, etc, will help us grow a bit, because there will be people following the link to our website and day by day, more and more people will know about us. It is that simple.
Removing the link in the bottom of the screen will actually break the contract you and I had when you downloaded the template. The link back is the only thing we asked you to do, for the rest there is no money involved, no other recognition. Just a link back to our website. It is that easy!
Next time when you download one of our free religion templates and you want to remove the link, think about the people who worked on that template, who designed the template and spent hours to make it work so you use it free of any charge on your site and please, let the link there. It will be your proof of respect for our work.
Thank you!
Setting your goal:first page in Google
When you start a website, one of your main concern should be to rank well, on the first page of Google for your keywords. This was my concern when I started this website, I wanted to rank well for Christian website templates, church templates, and all the related keywords. And so I did, you can check it for yourself if you like.
You should try to do the same and rank well with your website because this is the single most efficient and at the same time cheap traffic you can get. There is no traffic more efficient than the traffic from Google. at least for me and for my religion website templates. This is absolutely great for me and I can bet it would be the same for you, just that you need to work a bit to get that.
Getting on Google is not an easy task to do, it is a bit tricky and you need to know what you are doing, but with a bit of work and proper research you can achieve this. All you need to do is to propose to achieve it, because we know that the best way to do something is to set goals. Set your goal so you can reach the first page on Google for the proposed keywords and you are on your way there. For me, Christian design, church website designed, worked. For you, I don’t know, you need to figure it out for yourself!
Just start reading about it and study! In time you will learn!
Religion based design makes an interesting topic
I consider myself lucky because I have started this web site. I can tell you that the evolution of this site has been good and I love every day spent here. It is a good situation, people are interested in religion templates, religious design is more and more searched for, in my opinion it shows a better world, and I think you can understand why. A better interest for religion can only be good and this is something I am happy for.
A lot of people ask me one thing or another about design and layouts for churches and I don’t always manage to answer right. This is partly because I don’t always have time. In other cases is because I don’t always have the best answer. In this case I try to point them to the best person who can answer them. For example, I have been often asked about permission to remove the bottom link. I can tell you this: the bottom link may be removed, on particular cases, when the design is mine. This is something that I discuss from person to person with the user. When the design is not mine and is based on a templates started by somebody else, I can not say remove the link, since it is not my right. In this cases, I ask the user to speak directly to the original template designer. Usually, links are removed after paying a small fee for the original designer, case when everybody is happy. Religious designers must also live, you know…
Also I have been asked if I design custom church templates. Yes, I design custom church templates, so if you want a custom church design, ask an estimate using the contact form. I will do my best to match your needs and budget.
Family website templates
We have received lately questions about our family website templates collection. It is very interesting that people looking for religion templates look also for related domains such as charity templates, wedding templates and family website templates. I guess it is all about the values, which are the same. That is why I want to point you to our page about family website templates and tell you that every design there meets the same values as our Christian templates.
Family is one of the highest values of our society and we wanted to make our templates to show this at a first glance. You will see happiness, joy, children and parents, all these on warm colors in order to give your site a beautiful look and feel.
All our family templates can be considered Christian due to these values that we respect and promote. Think about our family websites as being an extension to our religion based design, not a separate area of our site. This is the way we see it and this is the way we invite you to consider it!