http://blog.ourchurch.com/2007/11/20/church-web-design-part-13-hobbled-website-horror-stories/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:35:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://blog.ourchurch.com/2007/11/20/church-web-design-part-13-hobbled-website-horror-stories/#comment-95401 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:29:48 +0000 http://blog.ourchurch.com/2007/11/20/church-web-design-part-13-hobbled-website-horror-stories/#comment-95401 Aman, Aman, brother. I've also experienced a much worse situation more frequently than not. A church hires a web designer that holds it's web pages hostage! The web designer creates pages that can not be accessed by ordinary people and updated! The church's ministry then is dependant on that one web designer who has little to no motivation in seeing the website improve it's ranking or outreach capabilities! This is the most common problem I run across. Why, a church is better off running a free blog than putting itself at the mercy of a web designer that discovers the ministry uninteresting or unprofitable enough to tempt them into improving their relationship with the client. My point, hire only designers that really care if the gospel is preached. I understand that a good pastor hates to preach guilt 24/7, but if your web designer doesn't feel obligation to you after you sign on the dotted line, YOU'VE GOT BIG TROUBLE buddy. Aman, Aman, brother. I’ve also experienced a much worse situation more frequently than not. A church hires a web designer that holds it’s web pages hostage! The web designer creates pages that can not be accessed by ordinary people and updated! The church’s ministry then is dependant on that one web designer who has little to no motivation in seeing the website improve it’s ranking or outreach capabilities! This is the most common problem I run across. Why, a church is better off running a free blog than putting itself at the mercy of a web designer that discovers the ministry uninteresting or unprofitable enough to tempt them into improving their relationship with the client. My point, hire only designers that really care if the gospel is preached. I understand that a good pastor hates to preach guilt 24/7, but if your web designer doesn’t feel obligation to you after you sign on the dotted line, YOU’VE GOT BIG TROUBLE buddy.

]]> http://blog.ourchurch.com/2007/11/20/church-web-design-part-13-hobbled-website-horror-stories/#comment-90541 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:05:32 +0000 http://blog.ourchurch.com/2007/11/20/church-web-design-part-13-hobbled-website-horror-stories/#comment-90541 Yes, this brought up some good points. The church I attend has a new web page/design that doesn't seem to be getting much attention. I'd like to forward this article, but wouldn't want to offend the admin... Yes, this brought up some good points. The church I attend has a new web page/design that doesn’t seem to be getting much attention. I’d like to forward this article, but wouldn’t want to offend the admin…

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