Comments on: Bad Church Web Design Hurts My Eyes

By: Mike Filicicchia

Mike Filicicchia — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:44:40 +0000

Do any of you guys know someone who would be willing to donate their time and/or talents to a missionary church on a college campus? I always hear so much about this topic, and it always comes back to "well, our web site sucks but our whole church is missionaries, so it would take a volunteer to run this." How generous is the web design community in this arena?

By: Graham Brenna

Graham Brenna — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:05:06 +0000

Hey man. Bad web design hurts my eyes too! Maybe it's because I got lasik surgery in 2006 or maybe it's for the reasons you're talking about. I'm excited to report that my church has taken the first BIG step into getting a Cloversite! We had a 2 hour brainstorming meeting the other day and our communications team is currently drafting copy for the new site. We're completely throwing out our old site and we'll be moving over to Clover in the spring. This means our email will get to move to Google Apps too, which I'm totally stoked for!

So yeah… just needed to tell someone that would care!

By: joanna

joanna — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:35:25 +0000

The bit that frustrates me the most is bad church website design that has obviously had a lot of time and money spent on it. I've seen too many church websites that have so much flash and fancy graphics that it drives you insane trying to find what you're looking for,

By: Frank Ramage

Frank Ramage — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:40:35 +0000

http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com has helped me in the past… not as active anymore but hopefully some good archives…

http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/category/bad-des...

By: Brandon Cox

Brandon Cox — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:29:33 +0000

Amen… Hallelujah… Kick'em in the pants John!!

By: klreed189

klreed189 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:58 +0000

Ya there are multiple post I would like to send them. To them though, it looks great.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:43:57 +0000

to be honest sometimes it is our fault for not having a backbone and standing up for what we believe would be best… instead we try to just "please the client"

By: dewde

dewde — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:55:50 +0000

For examples of good design in our space, check out http://ministrycss.com.

peace | dewde

By: dewde

dewde — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:54:56 +0000

I'm with you on this one, John. The truth is that it is easy to have a rock solid website for very little money these days. There really aren't any excuses for small to medium sized churches.

The real tragedy for me is when I see a big church with a poorly designed or confusing website. First because, usually, they have the budget for excellence. But second because big churches tend to attract a sizable "tech/geek" demographic and I imagine what it must be like for parishioners who want to invite their co-workers or peers to church. Inevitably, they will want to send a link to the churches site while exercising evangelism (for directions, a podcast, a video) and having a less-than-stellar web presence makes that decision difficult and/or embarrassing.

peace | dewde

By: dewde

dewde — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:42:47 +0000

I'd rather blame the graphic artists and designers. It's more my style.

peace | dewde