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📼 WATCH THIS INSTEAD OF READING This has gone through many, many iterations, so I’m extremely excited to share with you that… …In the spring, I’m running a free training program teaching you how to manage a church’s digital landscape in about 5 hours/week. I’ll teach you: Pre-reqs (please be honest with yourself): Why free? I could […]

Marketing

December 6, 2024

Learn to manage a church’s digital landscape in ~5hrs/week

Here it is: If you have social media links in your main menu at the top of your site, go ahead and move them to the footer at the bottom of your site. Why? One article I read about this topic called those social icons “candy colored exit signs.” Once you have someone on your site, don’t encourage them […]

Website Design

November 29, 2024

One simple change that will retain site traffic

Why is the organization of your main menu important? First and foremost, you want the user on the other side of the screen to have a positive experience on your site. This includes being able to find what they’re looking for easily. Additionally, it boosts your SEO to have a logical, clean, simple navigation. Scroll […]

Website Design

November 22, 2024

The best way to set up your website’s menu

🤔 How many words do you have on your website’s homepage? Is it the right number? Find out: Click and drag to highlight all the text on your homepage. Copy it. Paste it all into this tool: WordCounter.net You want to shoot for 400-600 words. Read more about that number here (or just give it a google). This […]

Website Design

October 18, 2024

Complete this website eval in <1 minute

I’ll be frank… if you’re the pastor, principal, or leader of your non-profit, this is a gigantic waste of your time. 🤷‍♀️ Additionally, you don’t know what you don’t know about web design and user experience (two fields you can get whole masters degrees in). It would be like me trying to write a sermon. That being said, I […]

Website Design

August 30, 2024

If you must DIY your website…