Our Free Website
Written on August 29, 2010 – 7:40 am | by Guru
Pastor Rick came to our youth Bible study session 2 months ago and asked us if we could create a website for our church. The goal of the website would be to help new residents find our church online. Pastor Rick felt that a nice looking website with our address and some directions from major highways would be great for drawing new faces to church. The only thing he asked was that we keep the cost down as we need our money for helping people in need.
I figured that with my experience I’d be able to make something useful for the church. The first thing I looked into was free web sites. My thoughts were you can’t pay anything less than zero. I let the Pastor know that we could get a decent free site to use and he gave me the green light.
The first type of free web site I looked into was a Wordpress blog. I figured that these are easy and simple to set up so it wouldn’t take much time. However, the more I thought about it, the more I knew that I had to find something better. Wordpress is great for quickly getting messages out, but I wanted to draw people into the church so that they could feel as great as I do each Sunday.
Pastor Rick and I determined that we needed a site that would really stand out from the crowd. The use of a free flash site is what we really needed for our church site. With a flash site I would be able to make a neat introduction and even add some flash animations to really make the site appealing. When a new resident sees the great web site they might just end up deciding to visit our church. The reverse of that is also true so a Wordpress themed site just wouldn’t do.
The first thing I did was to search the Internet for a free flash site. This proved harder than I thought it would, but eventually I found a great free website. I ended up finding this free site through an article site. The author of the article had done some great research on finding free flash sites. The free site even came with a multitude of templates to choose from. I got to use flash animations and didn’t even have to code.
We used a local Minneapolis seo company to optimize the website for more free search engine traffic. This organization created back links and optimized our on page site structure. They really made things easy for us.
Well two months later we got a new family to come to our church. The pastor asked them how they heard of the church and they said they found it on the Internet.
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