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Having finalized the menu structure for my church’s new website (see Church Web Design Part 10: A Website Organization Exercise), only two major tasks remained before we could launch the site.  We needed to finish adding content to the site, and we needed to review the entire site to make sure everything was functioning properly.  Could we get those final tasks done and launch the new website in time to help promote our fall “open house” outreach?

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In part 9 of this series about the redesign of my church’s website, I outlined 12 principles for organizing a church website.  Today we’ll take a practical look at applying those principles by examining how Tim, our church’s executive pastor, and I organized our church’s new website.  We used a neat little exercise that allowed us to quickly look at several different organizational options.  You might find it helpful as well.

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Last week, in part 8 of this series about the redesign of my church’s website, we talked about the importance of training to the long-term success of a website and why it is often neglected.  With my training complete and OCC having added content to the site there were only two steps remaining before the site could go live: review the site to be sure everything included in the contract had been done and add the rest of the content to the site.  But when we started adding the rest of the content we realized there was a big unresolved issue – how do we organize all these pages?  How many main menu items should we have?  What should they be named?

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In part 7 of this series about the redesign of my church’s website, we left off with Mike (OCC’s website developer on this project) having added a limited amount of content to the new website.  The next step in the development process is training the client (me) on how to use the content management system (CMS) and all the components installed.  This is one of the most important aspects of getting a new website, yet it’s usually overlooked.  Do you know why?

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