We wanted to show you a great Church website that is incorporating some simple and clean design pieces that give it a great look and feel. The church, Mosborough Elim Church in the U.K. has set up a sub navigation on their site. It's really 4 simple images that they have dropped into their site and shown on every page. This, in essence, ensures that wherever someone is on the site, they will have a quick and easy way to get to the contact info, the service time info, and the info for guests with a simple click. The design that they have used for these images looks amazing. It fits well with the look they have implemented on their site.
Another thing to check out while you peruse their site, www.mosboroughelimchurch.co.uk, is the way that they have used sub-header images on each of their pages to build a sense of continuity all through their site. Make sure to check it out and as always, let us know if you'd like us to help you do something similar with your site.
It's Day 4 of the 90 day Bible Project for First Student Ministries. A few years ago, I decided that I wanted to read through the Bible in a year. It was a good year. These guys are doing it in 90 days. They've done the math and they say with just about 45 minutes and 12 pages a day, they can pull it off. I love it. What a amazing feat. Their encouraging the students in their ministry and their families to join them.
Not only that but they are cataloging the journey on their website. Each day at midnight they put up a new video, a new key verse for the day and a link to to a new resource that will help people in this adventure. Each week's message at their program night will focus on the scripture reading for the previous week. Check out their site to follow the daily updates. Check out their sweet video archive. Join them if you dare.
Lots of people have asked recently about how to set up a splash page for their church or ministry website. A splash page is, in essence, a page that shows up before your home page and often offers people the chance to enter into different sections in your site. We would say that sometimes this is not the best option as you are requiring an extra click for people to get to the content of your site.
Other times though, people can make it work quite well. We came across this site - www.ampedyouthonline.com - recently that has set up a make-shift splash page right from within the SnapShot Web tools. They've done it in a way that looks good and is very easy to understand (two essentials for a splash page.)