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Content is the king for a church website. Your users only come and keep coming back to your website for the content on it. Therefore, to make your church website success you must feed users with good quality content. The rules of thumb are:
 
1.    Start from user’s position
2.    Make it simple
3.    Go legal
 
 

Start from user’s position

The reason for church to have a website is that they could serve their members better, more efficiently and influence more unbelievers. There might be tons of information about your church that you want to put on the church website. To be efficient, you need to start content collect process from user’s position. Think of what your users really need. For instance, a new visitor might want to see your church service time and a map on your church website and some basic introductive information as well. On the other hand, your congregation members might want to see last sermon audio files because he missed it.
 

Make it simple

People don’t like read long paragraph on the web page. Use simple and common terms so that people can understand. Your congregation members might know YC means Youth center or Youth Campus of your church but a new comer will certainly get lost at this. If you need to post long content on the website, make sure the first 1 or 2 paragraphs are dedicated to give the summary about the following content.
 

Go legal

It is common sense but it is worth to mention it. Before put any information on the church website you need to make sure you have the right to put it up. If you do not have the right you need to ask for permission. Illegal content will surely damage the church image.