Well Designed Church Websites

by Ann Davlin · October 11, 2011

Nowadays you can hardly divide your everyday life into online and offline. Shopping, business negotiations, chatting and cooking courses are being held on the web. Even when you are interested in something (or someone) that you know nothing about you start ‘googling’. Our entire material world can be found on the web. But today we’d like to draw your attention to the non-material one. Let’s talk about churches websites.

Religious organizations and non-profits need very specific and thoughtful design solutions for their websites. Not so long ago pastors and church members were satisfied with ordinary brochure-style web pages. There were just any backgrounds, many text blocks of the same type and a few images. Those were websites which gave some information about churches and religion importance.

Modern web design offers more opportunities for churches’ self-expression, new members involvement and religious promotion. Colorful backgrounds with skillfully drawn textures, media libraries with photo and video files which can describe the life of religious community and to accentuate on its benefits – all these things are widely used in church web designs.

Many churches even have social media accounts. They call their followers to join them on Twitter and Facebook to stay informed of the latest news and announcements.

So here we go with 30 church websites which we hope will be useful for web designers, church pastors and all those people who’re interested in design trends.