faithHighway
a resource in Site Builders | Tech
faithHighway provides a range of web and media services for Churches and Ministries. They specialize in building custom sites for Churches. They’re also the people behind Sermon Connect.
Ignite Your Ministry
a resource in Blogs & Happenings | Design | Media | Site Builders | Tech
Ignite Your Ministry is a Church site building and branding company from the UK.
Steve, who runs Ignite Your Media, also has a blog on the site about Church sites and other techy things!
http://igniteyourministry.com/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/IgniteYourMinistry
Mustardseed Media
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders | Tech
Mustardseed Media is a Church site building company from the same people who produce the excellent Geeks & God Podcast.
If you want a Church site built by a really friendly and ministry centered company, check out Mustardseed Media!
Using Wordpress for Church Sites
a resource in How-tos | Site Builders | Tech
The great guys over at Church Communications Pro have a great series of posts on how you can effectivly use Wordpress to run a Church site.
Although some of the information is a little out of date (due to new versions of Wordpress), it’s still well worth a read and covers most of what you’ll need to know!
They also run a sister site with many good Wordpress theme - ithemes.
http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/using-wordpress-to-run-church-websites-tutorial-series/
Sermon Browser
a resource in Sermons | Site Builders | Tech
Sermon Browser is a plugin for the popular blog/cms software Wordpress.
This great little plugin allows the easy addition of sermons (audio, video and text) and podcasting to your wordpress installation.
For the audio, you can either upload mp3 files via the plugin or you can link to a file/embed on another server/hosting such as Amazon S3 or Odeo.
For video you can link to a video on site such as YouTube or Google Video.
You can add the times of services and speakers, etc. to make the adding of sermons very simple. There are also customisable templates for how the sermons are displayed on the site.
http://www.4-14.org.uk/sermon-browser
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)City Gates
a resource in Site Builders
City Gates is a ‘hosted’ Church CMS with a full range of features including blogs & podcasts, calendars and file uploads.
You can choose from an existing design or build your own (if you know css).
Church Website Design Tool
a resource in Church Tools | Design | Site Builders | Tech
This is a free self-assessment questionnaire from the guys at Internet Evangelism Day helps you evaluate your Church site, and creates an evaluation report with advice to help you consider new ideas or aspects of the site that could be modified. It could also help in planning a new site.
Give it a go, it should only a take three minutes!
http://ied.gospelcom.net/church-site-design.php
AdvancedMinistry
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders
AdvancedMinistry is a Church site builder with lots of features including calendar and media handling (inc podcasting).
It’s based on different colour ’suites’ that have different features and price plans. There’s also a free site option (but it does carry ads).
http://www.advancedministry.com
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Church Cloud
a resource in Church Finders | Church Tools | Site Builders
Church Cloud is an international Church finder with added features.
As well as have a normal listing, Church can upload sermons and other media, audio and video, (so they can be downloaded or played using the Church Cloud jukebox) and have event listings.
On the Church lsiting page you can have more info that on most church finders including your address, phone number, email address, web link to your Church site, a link to your Church’s location on google maps and the main service times.
With the addition of sermons and events, you could almost make this your (small) main Church site!
ChurchCloud is made by the people who make the Ekklesia 360 Church site software and ChurchCloud is run on this software.
SiteOrganic
a resource in Church Tools | Site Builders
SiteOrganic is a ‘premium hosted’ Church site builder. There are a number of features and includes custom design.
(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)