Archive for October, 2009
October 31st, 2009 | 
Author: 4 Major Tips To Keep Your Church Website Visitor Coming Back For More
So you have a rocking cool church website. You just recently redesigned it but whats next?
Having a website is not enough. You need to make your church website not just another one of million others on the world wide web. Your goal is to make it an effective online ministry.
First step of course is to get your church website visible on the search engines based on the keywords that you believe your prospects will use in order to find you. Assuming this has been accomplished how do you encourage your visitors to keep coming back to your website?
Here are some tips:
1. Regularly update your content.
Nothing can be more disappointing for a visitor than to go back to a church website only to find the same content from 3 or 6 months ago. Add new content even if its just the news and events section. If you have a flash slideshow add 2 or 3 different photos every week. There are a lot of websites that offer free stock photos. If you have a blog post an article once a week. If there is nothing to put on the news and events section which is rarely a case add quotes from men or women of God or verse of the day on the homepage.
2. Offer free resources.
There are different forms of resources that you can offer your visitors:
a. Articles
If possible post original articles about topics that you believe will benefit both your
church members and website visitors. It can be both scriptural and practical. You can
also post notes about your past messages devotionals or short Bible studies.
b. Sermon Audios
Perhaps this is the most valuable resource that you could offer your site visitors.
Whether its a church member who might have missed a Sunday service or a site
visitor that is simply looking for some messages to minister to them this is a great
tool to keep them coming back for more.
c. Videos
Web users love short clip videos. If your website is capable of streaming videos
be sure to post videos of your services to give site visitors a glimpse of what your
Sunday service is like. Videos of your gatherings and other events are also great.
3. Allow interaction.
Ever wonder why social networking websites are successful? Because they allow interaction. They allow online fellowship. If you have a blog allow commenting on your blog. If your website has polls regularly post new polls. If your budget allows get a forum included. These venues create a venue for your visitors to interact with you and with each other.
4. Make it real.
Create a photo gallery section in your website and show photos of actual people in your church whether its a worship gathering or fun activities this is something that your site visitors will enjoy. By posting these kind of photos you give your visitors a sense of who
you are and what you are all about and it gives them a sense that you are real.
About the writer: Lynne Gabriel is the owner of TheChurchWebsiteDesigners.com a church website design company based in Houston TX. They build custom church website design that are visuallyappealing userfriendly and easytomanage.
Guide To Selecting The Best Digital Video Equipments!
Looking for suggestions on how to set up your own video production unit? Here is a guide to selecting amp; buying the best Digital Video Equipments that includes Digital camcorders Video editing Hardware amp; Software.
Whether you intend to do this as a serious hobby or you want to be a professional down the line understanding the video creation process is recommended. You also need to know what you want to shoot. Is it going to be simple home videos… or some high quality work?
Answering these questions makes it easier for you to take the decisions around what video equipments would be needed. So here is a list of equipments you would need!
A Digital Camcorder
You cannot shoot without this equipment. The price range varies a lot so decide if you intend to shoot home videos or want to do professional work. Look at technical factors like Firewire support lens quality optical zoom still image capability etc.
A Decent Computer
The Computer is where you will capture your video and do things like editing adding effects adding soundtrack etc. and then share it for use on different media. So your computer needs to have a good configuration factors that need to be considered include CPU RAM Hard disk upgradability Monitor size etc.
Video Capture Device
To capture analog video from VHS tapes you will need an analogtodigital conversion device to transfer the video to your computer. If it is digital video that you intend to capture your computer will need a Firewire card to be able to transfer the video to your computer.
Video Editing Software
You can polish your video further using a video editing software program. You can add Menus Titles Transitions Effects Soundtrack Narration etc. Depending on the product you choose you may be able to do customization of these effects as well.
DVD Authoring Software
The process of burning a VCD / DVD is made easier using an authoring package. They also let you make other changes like adding menus and chapters for easy navigation. But if you intend to go in for a good video editing software program you dont need a DVD authoring package.
About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Computer Video Production.com
I have been dealing in video editing hardware and software for last many years.
Affordable SEO Web Design Services
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