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.Using WordPress as a CMS
One of the most interesting things I have noticed lately is the fact that people consider WordPress a blogging platform only. Oh, what a great mistake! WordPress has an other hidden face, the face of a real CMS, able to power up static websites. I know because I build websites using WordPress as CMS.
It is not difficult at all, if you think about it! The only thing you should do is to create the pages you want and assign one as the index page, then edit a bit your WordPress theme and remove the area where categories or archive are displayed. It is that simple and it works fine.
WordPress is a powerful CMS and it can be customized to the point where you can not tell it is a WordPress engine behind it. Maybe only the fact that the URL have the WordPress format, without the file name and extension at the end of the URL, for the rest, you can not tell what is behind it.
This is a great feature, if you think about it, because it empowers you to develop websites fast and easy without spending time on developing the website engine and this is great when it comes to productivity, one of the things you should always consider when starting a business.
Think about it and next time when you want to start a website consider WordPress as a CMS and not as a blogging platform!
Again about religious tattoos
At one moment I have written here a post about religious tattoos. Now I come back on it again, because I found on the internet very interesting information. If you look on Google for religious tattoos you will see that there are plenty of sites providing art works and templates for them.
Seems that this market is quite good and there are enough people to make it work on the long run.
How about a list of websites providing religious tattoos?
Well, there are a lot of Christian websites oriented to this form of art. I would enumerate a few:
religioustattoos.net
I liked this site because it provides also good information about tattoos history, explain what tattoos mean in a religious meaning, etc. Overall, it is a site that offers a whole package, not only tattoos.
rankmytattoos.com
Even well ranked in G, it is not devoted to religious tattoos but more to the general market. It also provides a religious section, but nothing about history, biblical meaning, etc.
tattoojohnny.com
Exactly as the one above, even if it provides a good collection, it is not oriented to religion but to the general art.
I think that the first is the most important in my opinion because it offers you a reason for which you get a
tattoo and doesn’t let you with no clue about why you get inked. You need a strong motivation in order to have your skin inked and this site offers you enough motivation and information about religious tattoos.
Low budget website templates become a trend these days
Indeed, budget website templates (or low budget templates, that is) become a trend these days. With all that move towards open source, people are more and more interested in buying low budget templates, not spending big money for this.
It is somehow as in the car industry in some area, where people try to invest less and less in cars (I don’t peak about those people paying millions for a car) . So, it is the same with church website design here and with religious websites. People invest less and less in fancy look and feel and more in features and services. Low budget website templates became the choice of many Christian webmasters.
Of course, if you think, there is a cheaper alternative, free website templates, but there are not that many willing to share their work for free. At least they put some low budget templates instead of free ones, in order to sustain their business.
Watch around and you will see that budget website templates are more and more the choice of people around us.
Website template for a modern church
Well, this one is something! Website templates for modern church, yes we do feature such thing. The fact is that a modern church, by it’s definition also means following current trends and websites for sure are a sign of a modern church.
But indeed, there are some design trends also that the site of a modern church should follow. The website template of a modern church should be web 2.0 , should incorporate video sermons, streaming maybe or at least mp3 prayers and sermons ready for free download. That is how I see a modern church website and out templates allow easy integration of such services in order to fit the needs of any modern church.
Templates for custom church websites are more popular than Christian blog themes
Because of this Web 2.0 thing, I have always thought that blog themes are very searched for and very used. OK, they are, but you know something? Church blog themes are less searched and downloaded than regular designs for religious websites that are not blogs. I don’t know how to put it. Church designs that are not made for blogs but for custom religious websites are way more downloaded than religious blog design themes. That’s a fact!
What does this mean? Could that mean that people using religious websites are not that familiar with Web2.0? Or could this mean that religious blogs don’t serve well people’s interest, don’t work well for church websites? I think that this is not the case, maybe the first one, with church people being less interested in blogs. However, I must admit I was expecting more downloads for Christian blog themes.
I was thinking on adding Christian Mambo designs, or Joomla themes for religious sites, but I don’t know anymore. If blogs are not that popular, at least for me here, how would Joomla and Mambo work?
When working on the internet, you need an internet connection, doh!
These last weeks I was not able to work on my site too much. Actually, due tot he fact that I had no internet connection at home (I am moving into a new apartment) I could not access it at all. I feel really bad about this, I was used to work on this site each and every day, even if the volume of work was not large. A few words here, a few free Christian designs here and there, that was what it takes for it to work.
However, these last weeks I didn’t find the resource for it. During day time I don’t find the time and during evening, I can not. Not a nice situation.
I planned that custom church design thing, as I have posted a few days ago here, but this requires me to stay connected to the site, which I can not for the next 2 weeks. Man, I need my internet connection back to get back to work on my free religious designs. I need it like I need water. Am I addicted to internet or what?
The only thing that I can say about this is that any internet related “worker” needs an internet connection. How bad is that? No internet connection when I deliver free website templates. The only way for me to write posts for the blog is to write them offline and to paste them here in the morning, when I have a bit of time, cause the rest of the day is full and busy, no time for blogging. That is one big problem, I was usually doing this in the evening, having the time to read also reactions from fellow Christian designers, to see some other Christian blogs, etc.
I’ll see…
Build your personal factory
You know, I imagine a website as being one big factory of some sort. Imagine this starting from the results it delivers. Think about serving 50 000 people per month, selling things to them, providing free website templates, etc. How many people would you need when running such a business? For 50 000 people or more you need a lot of workers serving your business in order to make it work. You would need people to arrange the merchandise, to show it to customers, to entertain and to explain what is needed, etc
Think now about a website. If you build it right, it works like an automated factory, company, showroom , sales force, etc. Just build your site the way you should and the site will run by itself. I think like this because I know this site and the way it behaves. It works great with so little effort.
All you need is to build it right from the start. This should be a new post, actually, how to build a site right from the start. A website should automate sales, should automate the presentation of your business, actually a site is a virtual robot working for yourself. If you want, a website is a personal factory. You won’t need tones of people to sell website templates, for ex, or to give them for free, all you need to do is to have a well planned mechanism that allow the user to get what he needs. This is my personal opinion on websites, it is an opinion developed in time from experience.
What do you think,am IÂ right?
Have A Change In Your Life
Did you ever feel unmotivated to do something? Did you ever feel that there is no reason for doing what you should do? What can you do when you feel like this? What can you say to yourself to put yourself together? Some friends told me that it is inside you, you have to find ways to motivate yourself. Well, yes, I guess…
I guess sometimes is just the lack of free time, too much work, maybe some problems with short terms successes. Maybe the job or maybe the family situation, what can you do? Well, first of all you should put your finger on the problem. That is first thing you should do. Then you should, of course, eliminate that problem and then gain a little self confidence. This is what I think is the solution. Take it step by step and work your way to the top. Establish some small targets that you should easily reach and then try to reach them to build again your self confidence.
If the environment is not quite challenging you, maybe you should consider changing it. Maybe spend more time with your friends, maybe a change of job, maybe just a change of scenery, anything, just do a change of any type.
I know that when I feel like this I try to change something, anything, in my life.
How do you react on such situations?
How You Feel About Your Websites?
When you start a website you don’t know if it is going to work or not. You don’t know if it is going to be good or not. Of course, you want to feel it, you want to know it since you work on it and you believe that it is good, I mean, your website MUST BE GOOD, right?
Well, actually nobody tells a website is good or bad, nobody but the public. Depends on how many visitors you have, depends on what people think of it. The most important thing to consider when developing a website is how it will serve the public. If the public feels that the value they get from your website is good, then the site is good. Otherwise, it is not.
Now, if we consider that a website is somehow like a child for the one that built it and maintained it, then you can not contradict me when I say that every one of us is in love with his work, with the websites he/she represents.
I have started this Christian website a few years ago, but for a while it was not that important to me. Starting last year, around August, I think, this website became very important due to a lot of reasons. Since that moment, it is like a child to me and I can not stop working on it whenever I have time.
At one point I was asked to evaluate it in order to sell it. But I realized it is a difficult thing to do, even in the eventuality of a good offer. Why is that? Well, because of the long hours I spent working on those free Christian templates that I have shared here, because of the time I spend promoting it, because of everything this site represents to me.
Do you have the same feeling for your websites? Christian or not, no matter what kind of website, do feel the same?
I have started this website because I believe that our Christian church members need such a service
I have started this website about Christian design and stuff. I have started it because I believe in Christian church and because this is my religion and I believe that many webmasters which are the leaders of this internet generation represents the Christian church but they don’t just say it out loud. We need such an internet Christian church resource.
I know that there are many resources for web design but not all those people representing these websites are members of te Christian church community and not all of them represent well the Christian church.
We speak about website templates, well, ok, but the Christian church is more important that the way it is represented, in this case, on the internet through our website.
This is just a way of serving or Christian church our way of being and expressing. I know the way I am. I know the way I am built and this website is just part of what I am.