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Guides and Guidelines for a Church Web Site

If you are planning on creating a church website, try:

• The ELCA Guide to Developing Your Own Congregation Web Site - There are quite a few links on this page leading you to other good resources
• Dancing on the Web - resources, an online tutorial and a website template for creating your church's website
• 25 Church Website Design Tips (PDF) from Christian Computing Magazine
• Christian Web Site about Christian Web Design
• Bible Resource Center- Best Practices in Online Ministry
• Christian webmaster resources - tips, tricks, ideas and effective communication (excellent resource)
• ForMinistry - full-featured, free church website building tool, plus many resources for ministry online; an outreach of American Bible Society
• Heal Your Church Web Site: "Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design."
• Boyink Interactive: Church Web Sites - What We Don't Know
• ASSESSING CHURCH WEBSITES: STUDYING BEST PRACTICES IN ONLINE MINISTRY
• Ten Internet ‘best practices’ for e-ministry by Terrell Sanders
• Criteria Used to Review Congregational Web Sites 
• Designing Church Web Sites 

If you are at all unsure about your way around the Internet, take this excellent Internet for Religious Studies tutorial / guided tour.

Is your website mainly intended for church members, or do you want it to be more of an evangelistic and outreach medium? For some guidance to online evangelism, the following are helpful (though keep in mind the theological perspectives):

• Evangelism guide to internet web outreach (A really outstanding site with all sorts of information and things you should keep in mind)
• Online Training for Online Evangelists-Outline (This will give an overview. To actually take the course, it is requested that you register [free] and affirm their faith statement. To see all the course material without having to register, start here: Online Training for Online Evangelists-Session 1.A )