Christian blog about church website design
Click to go back to the site, to the collection of free Christian website templates and our nice church website design.How difficult is to build a Christian web template?
Well, belileve me or not, it is not an easy thing to do. If you build a custom theme, without a particular constraint, such as a particular engine, CMS or an already established site, it is easier, your imagination is the limit, but if you need to respect some constraints such as building a religious blog theme based on WordPress or a Christian osCommerce template, or a Zen Cart template, etc, then things will be a bit more difficult because you will have some particular structures that you need to include and respect, like for ex blog posts, archives, you need to include tags for best offers, etc.
These days more and more people use predefined CMS engines such as WordPress so Christian WordPress themes are very demanded these days and designing them is not easy to to. What you can do to start working on one is to take the default theme WordPress comes with and start adapting it.
I guess that no matter in what domain of activity you work on, you know that is always easier to adapt somebody’s work than to start it yourself from scratch. The same with Christian WordPress themes here…
Church website design is a lovely activity
Indeed, I find church website design as a very pleasant thing to do, since I get to design a lot of websites, a lot of church website templates and this makes every day of my life more and more beautiful. You know, you need passion for this activity in order to make it right. It is not just a regular website design niche, you need more for it, you need understanding, trust, faith, love and a very good communication with your client who, in most of the cases, has so little to do with computers.
Church website design is not hard to do once you understand it and manage to communicate right with the people asking you for services. If you are not used to it, if you are not used to design Christian websites, for example, it is difficult to do it in the beginning until you master the vocabulary and needs. Christian websites and church website design in general are different than regular sites, you will need to spend time in the church, among people of the church, if you are not very familiar with it, in order to get it right.
That is why I recommend you start developing the website of your church with a Christian designer who already understand these needs.
A lot of Christian blogger templates
Well, if you are a Christian blogger and you are looking for quality and free blog templates, then you are in the right place! Our blog templates collection offers whatever a Christian blogger needs in order to start his or her blog!
We have a nice collection of Christian blogger templates that we are trying to expand day by day and we also rely on your support to expand it. If you have a free theme that you would like to share with us, we will be happy to publish it on our site and share it with everybody interested in it, in Christian websites or just general web design.
Also, if you want to have your own Christian blog theme you can just download one of our themes and customize it yourself. It is not that difficult once you start getting on it, you just need to learn a few things, to read the tutorials you can find on blog sites, mainly on WordPress and experiment with it. If you save a copy of the theme you have just downloaded, there is nothing you should fear about, nothing can be broken that isn’t replaceable. So, just experiment!
Do your Christian web templates come with server side scripting support?
I have received a question about the website templates on my site here. Somebody was interested to know if the templates offer ASP or APSx support as well as database support. I think there was a little misunderstanding here, since what you see here on this site is a collection of beautifully designed religion templates, but still, templates, nothing more. There is no scripting included, as the FAQs state. Everything is just about the way a site looks. These are all Christian layouts, not site engines, not scripts that power up websites.
I wanted to say this here so nobody understand that the websites layouts that you see here are backed up by scripts at this point and complain they are not, after they buy them.
Of course, being a website template, it is very easy for somebody knowing his job to implement a website using any server side scripting like PHP or ASP or ASPX, there is no problem here, and if you ask yourself if all our Christian web templates offer this support for such development, the answer is yes, all out web templates offer such support for development. But they don’t come with this at this moment!
You can ask a coder, a web design agency, or anybody knowing his way around coding to build the site for you using server side scripting if you really think you will need it. Just speak to any web design agency and they will help you build a website out of it.
Did you know we also offer such services? See the templates customization button on the upper side of the site and see our offer!
Everybody has a site that is dearest to his/her heart. This is mine…
Over time, those of us that are involved in developing websites build a small fleet of them but everybody has one or two that are very close to their hearts and mean the most to them. For me, this site about Christian web design is the one that means the most. I have more websites, on various topics, but this one means more than all the others put in one place.
Over time I watched it grow step by step and earn each of the visitors coming here with cold sweat. I worked for this growth and every visitor coming to this website meant something to me. You, reader of this post, too. I designed a handful of church web templates that I delivered for free. Everyone of these free website templates means something to me.
It does not necessarily mean that this site is the most important from all the points of view, or that it is the most beautiful or that it has the highest traffic. No. It just mean that this website is the dearest to my heart.I guess it is because of the religious niche too, because every time I work on this site I get a warm feeling of belonging.
I love this site and I am pretty sure you have your own websites you love, sites that you have worked on and that means something to you. Am I right or what?
Our religious templates may be used for other websites too
Our niche is Christian templates, free religious web templates, yes, I know it. But this does not mean that you can not use our free website templates for your sites, if these sites don’t have a religious specific. You can use it to anything you like, just keep the link back to us. Of course, the sites you use our free templates on should not have offensive content of any kind and should follow Christian beliefs. It is that simple.
After that, no matter what domain of activity, what niche your site has, you can use out free website templates to dress it. If you sell books, it’s ok. If you sell cars, it’s ok. If you have a personal site, no problem, just please remember to keep the link back to our site here. It is that simple.
People ask us all the time questions like: could I use your template for my site if it is not a religious site? Yes, as long as it follows good will rules and does not offend anybody in any way. That is the only thing we ask and of course the link. After that, use our religious theme to whatever you like, to build a site that is religious or not. Be our guests!
Custom church websites for low prices
The same idea that I have exposed here some time ago comes back to me again and again: how about offering payed services for developing full websites for churches, Christian organizations, etc, at low prices and use this site for this? I ask myself if I would offer such a service, if people would like it. A lot of my searches come from free website templates so there is a big chance that people don’t want to invest much money.
But I look at the fact that a lot of the Christian templates that are downloaded from our site are not well implemented on customer’s websites: people rely on their college HTML knowledge to do it or ask somebody from the church. But how would be if you would know that after you have downloaded the template, we can add the information in it for you for a low price?
Have your website up and ready with just a little bit of money? Wouldn’t this be great?
Church WordPress themes are easy to install
I have decided some time ago to provide here, for free, a collection of church WordPress themes so everybody willing to start a church blog based on WordPress to find some free themes to design his blog. It is not difficult, our church WordPress themes are designed in such a way that all you need to do is to copy them to the folder where your themes are located, in wp-content/themes folder on your WordPress installation folder.
Than, after logging in to your administration account of your blog go to presentation or design tab, depending on your WordPress version and change the current theme to the church WordPress theme you have downloaded from our website.
After this, you are allowed to change it as much as you want, in order to fit your church design: you can change colors, you can change pictures and of course, you can and you need to change text. You actually need to add text as often as possible on your church blog, so people visit it often.
It is that easy to have a nice church WordPress blog based on one of our themes!
Add whatever religious images you like to our templates
Religion is something that is globally defined, even if there are many forms, many ways to look at it and to believe. I won’t enter an argument with this post about who’s better, because this is not the subject of this blog. This site and blog are about website design, about free website templates, etc, all these oriented to Christian websites.
However, I see often people asking me to customize templates to fit their look, based on where they live, they say that this template is Christian, I like it, but it shows there Caucasian people and I want to change the picture to something to represent me. Well, there is no problem, really! If you like the template and you want to change it to something that fit you, you are welcome to do it.
All that matters is that it is a Christian template that matches your way of looking at websites and that it fits your church or religion website. After this, what pictures you add there, doesn’t matter. You can find any Christian picture that you like and add it there, you can add there generic religious pictures such as children praying, priests, a pastor, Jesus, a cross, whatever you like, or you can add there specific images, like yourself, picture of your church, people praying on your church, etc.
It is all up to you!
Custom church web design…
I haven’t had too much time to take care of MagicTemplate.com the way I would have liked to. I said, some time ago, that I would like to make this website work as a custom church web design interface for what we do, not only to give away free Christian web templates or sell premium Christian templates.
I know they both make a good topic for this site, but I think that we can offer more. Custom web design for churches may just be this thing. I think this will also help people a lot because by offering custom web design, people could come and tell us what they would like to get and we design it for them, so, beside downloading a free template, people could ask for some specific design work.
Church web design is a form of art and “custom” is the word for any form of art, that is why I think about this. It is not something that I have spent my time on planning, just a thought that is running through my head since a while.