It is that time of year again. For baseball fans (yes, I’m one of them), it is time for the Midsummer classic: The All Star Game! People may debate some of the choices of who makes the All Star team and whether it is really just a popularity contest but overall it gathers the best players from the National and American Leagues to battle it out on the diamond. Because there are a limited number of spots on each roster, only a very few of the hundreds of Major League baseball players will make the All Star team.
When it comes to church websites, your not competing against other websites in order to be considered an All Star. The question is, how does a church website make the list of being an All Star website?
Over the next two weeks, I will share with you 9 items to check/correct on your website in order to make your site part of the All Star Team!
- Too many menu items in the navigation menu. The maximum number of items in your navigation menu should be seven (ideally it should be 4-5). If you have more than seven, review and organize them using drop-down or sub-menus.
- Text of menu items is too long. Having seven or less primary menu items is only helpful if the text for each menu item is reasonable. As a rule, menu items shouldn’t have more than 15 characters. If you have too many characters of text in your menu items, think of how you can reword it but still make it user friendly for your visitor.
- The text is not easy to read because text color and background color. If this is the case either change the color of the text or the color of the background so the text is easier to read.
- Music plays automatically when someone visits the website. Having music automatically play when someone visits the website may seem cool, but it can be distracting, annoying (especially when someone has visited the site multiple times) and can slow the loading of your website.
So, how did your website do in comparison to these four items? Please post your comments below.
If you want to talk to me about getting an All Star church website, please contact me here!
6 Comments
My old NE1 theme had a black background and white or light gray text, and when I started working on the new WPEZ site I thought the default white background and black text was too glaring, so I changed it also to black – actually not exactly pure black – with a very light gray text (pure white text also seemed too glaring). To me, it's easier to read like that. I would like other's opinions on any websites they've seen with a dark background and light text. My site is http://www.fellowshipfreewill.com; it's still the old NE1 format right now, and the menu will be much shorter when I activate the new WPEZ site. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing Jean! The dark background with the white text is very easy to read. The purple text gets a little more difficult to read but isn't bad.
Thank you, Mark. I am keeping the dark background and almost-white text on my WPEZ site but I'm getting rid of the pink and purple. I couldn't find the right color of purple for the header background, so I've got a new color scheme in the header. Virtually all of the text in the body will be the same almost-white color, except for clickable links.
Website designing is the main point of a website. If it has no proper navigation and color combination, then it's a bad impact on a website. And in this blog, You clearly explained every point in a proper way. Here, I am looking for Website design service in Singapore and I found your blog. Thank you for this blog.
You're welcome, Dawson!
Hmm, thanks, these are very good tips. I am reading a lot about web design UI solution etc…and paid attention to the overall trend towards interface simplification and minimal design. It is interesting where did it came from and why it occurred at the moment of the most when a most variation of design and usability are available.