What we build, and what each thing costs
41 pages, one per question people actually ask. Each one answers its question directly, with real figures rather than ranges invented for a brochure.
Businesses and shops
- Christian ecommerce website design for small teams A Christian ecommerce site adds a shop to work that is usually not primarily commercial: a ministry selling resources, a publisher, a small busin…
- Website design for Christian-owned businesses A Christian-owned business website has to do two things at once: win customers who are choosing on competence, and be honest about the values beh…
- Website design for Christian authors A Christian author website has one job that outranks all the others: turning a reader who just finished the book into someone you can contact aga…
- Website design for Christian speakers A Christian speaker website has one visitor who matters: the person deciding whether to book you. They need to know what you speak on, see you sp…
- Working with a Christian web designer based in Europe Christian Web Designer works from Schwaz, Austria, with churches and ministries across Europe, North America and Africa. For a US congregation th…
- Website design for Christian counsellors and therapists A Christian counsellor website serves someone who is anxious about making contact at all. It has to establish who you are, what happens in a firs…
- Website design for a Christian podcast A Christian podcast needs its own website because podcast apps are closed to search engines. Episode audio is invisible to Google and to AI searc…
Care, speed and security
- What does church website maintenance cost? Church website maintenance covers hosting, software updates, backups, security monitoring and small content changes. Hosting with email is $15 pe…
- Your church website has been hacked. Do this first. When a church website is hacked, take it offline or into maintenance mode first, change all passwords second, and only then investigate. Restorin…
- Why your church website is slow A slow church website is usually caused by unoptimised photographs, too many plugins, cheap hosting, or scripts loaded from other sites. Photogra…
- Moving a church website without losing rankings or email Moving a church website means transferring files, database, email and domain settings while preserving every page address that already ranks. The…
- Your church website does not work properly on phones Most visits to a church website happen on a phone, often while someone decides whether to attend on Sunday. A site that requires zooming, has but…
- Making a church website usable for everyone Church website accessibility means people with impaired sight, hearing or movement can use the site. Five fixes cover most of it: readable contra…
Churches and congregations
- Church website design that answers what visitors came to ask Church website design means building a site around the four things a visitor actually looks for: when services start, where the building is, how …
- What does a church website cost? A professionally built church website costs between $1,200 and $4,000 as a one-time build, depending on the number of pages. Hosting with email r…
- Church website builders compared, including when not to use one Church website builders cost less in cash and more in volunteer hours than a custom-built site. They suit congregations with a committed voluntee…
- Website design for small churches, without the parts you do not need A small church website needs four things: service times, location, a way to get in touch, and evidence that the congregation is real and welcomin…
- Redesigning a church website without losing what already works A church website redesign should keep the page addresses that already rank, redirect any that change, and carry over the sermon archive. Most red…
- Website for a church plant, before there is much to show A church plant website has to answer four questions with certainty: what this is, who is behind it, where and when it meets, and what happens nex…
- Should we build the church website ourselves? Building a church website in-house makes sense when a volunteer genuinely enjoys the work and expects to stay. It fails when the site becomes a c…
- WordPress or Squarespace for a church website? Squarespace suits a church with no technical volunteer, because nothing needs updating and nothing breaks. WordPress suits a church that wants co…
- What good church websites have in common Good church websites share four traits: service time and address visible without scrolling, photographs of the actual congregation, a clear answe…
- Putting a church livestream on your website A church livestream should be broadcast through YouTube or a similar platform and embedded on the church website, never hosted on the church serv…
- Publishing sermons so people can actually find them A sermon archive is usually the largest body of unique content a church owns, and most are invisible to search because they contain only audio. E…
- Church event calendars, and why most of them die Most church event calendars are abandoned within a year because maintaining them is more work than the congregation expected. A simple list of th…
- Website design for large and multi-site churches A large church website fails differently from a small one. The problem is not neglect but fragmentation: many ministries each wanting a section, …
- Connecting church management software to your website Connecting church management software to a website is worth doing where it removes duplicate data entry, usually for events, giving and member di…
- Our church website looks old. What now? An outdated church website needs either repair or replacement, and four checks decide which. If the content is wrong, fix the content. If it is s…
- What to put on a church website A church website needs four pages before anything else: a homepage with service time and address, a page explaining a first visit, a contact page…
- Photographs for a church website Photographs decide whether a first-time visitor believes they will fit in, which no amount of welcome text achieves. Stock images are recognisabl…
- What to check before a church website goes live Eighteen checks separate a church website launch that goes quietly from one that causes weeks of problems. Two of them are hard to repair afterwa…
Ministries and non-profits
- Ministry website design for organisations whose supporters are elsewhere A ministry website has a different job from a church website. Its visitors are supporters, not attenders, and they are usually in another country…
- Website design for Christian non-profits and charities A Christian non-profit website has to do something a church website does not: prove where the money goes. Donors compare organisations, and speci…
- Website design for missionaries and field workers A missionary website exists to keep supporters informed and giving while the worker is far away and often offline. Its hardest requirement is not…
- What does a ministry website cost? A ministry website costs $2,000 to $4,000 as a one-time build, depending on how many pages the work needs. Adding a donation store is a further $…
Online giving
- What online giving platforms really cost your church Online giving platforms charge two layers: a card processing fee of roughly 2.2 to 2.9 percent plus about $0.30 per transaction, and in many case…
- How online giving is set up on a church website Setting up online giving involves choosing a payment provider, connecting it to the church bank account, building a giving page, and testing with…
Schools and colleges
- Website design for Christian schools and Bible colleges A Christian school website serves two audiences with opposite needs. Prospective parents want to know what the school is like and what it costs. …
- Website design for Bible colleges and seminaries A Bible college website serves adults deciding for themselves, often from another country, and usually comparing several programmes at once. They…
Search visibility
- Your church website is not showing on Google. Here is why. A church website usually fails to appear in Google for one of six reasons: it is blocked from indexing, it is too new, it has no unique text, it …
- Church website SEO, starting with the searches worth winning Church website SEO means being found for the searches that bring visitors: the church name plus the town, service times, and questions about a fi…