New Pre Built Template Service Offering

We have started a new service. While most of our clients are still custom website consumers, we have started a templated service. With our new Pre Made Template service we can take a premade template and customize it a bit to our customers needs. We still give all of the same great service as we do with our custom packages. The only difference is that the setup fee is much less.

The reason for this is because the average custom site takes 60 to 80 hours to develop and the average Premade site takes about 20 to 30 hours. The turn around time is a bit quicker as well. We are offering this as an option in an ailing economy. Business is still good, but some churches may need the functions of our packages but can't afford to shell out $2000 to design it.

I will post back later and give an update about this new service....until then God Bless!

Business Expansion

Our client base has grown significantly over the past six months, and it seems as if it will continue this trend. We are currently training some new staff to help expand the scope of our business. The business model we have is changing every month to sustain the growth that we are seeing. Many of our new clients are referring friends and our direct business is growing as well.

Over the next three months we are looking to overhaul our billing system. We are talking with some developers now to give the best customer experience possible. God has truly blessed us and we look forward to many years of helping project the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the world wide web.

I will keep you posted when the new billing system comes into effect! God Bless!

New Sermon Component

It's finally here! Our new sermon component is ready for live production. All new sites who sign up with the appropriate package will get our new sermon component placed in their website. Some of the new features include:

• upload info from the front end of your website
• instant podcasting feed
  
• i-tunes button for instant podcast subscription
• newest sermon module
• upload photo/audio/video/doc/sermon info all in one upload
• amazon cs3 implementation
• youtube url capabilities
• instant resize of photo
• edit all info instantly by logging in on front end

This new component is simply awesome! You've asked for it and we have delivered your needs!
More new components to come! We are excited to see what is going to happen over the next year, but this is our best component to date...bar none!

In A Pastor's Conference

Well it is Wednesday morning and I am in the third day of a pastor's conference. After being here I am in awe at how many churches and ministries need a decent church website design. We are entering into our fifth year of doing church websites and are blown away by how God is bringing our company favor.

We now are in the process of gaining the support of the church planting office of the Church of God and we have rallied the support of the worldwide denomination AEGA. I have been training 3 other programmers to help with these new branches and it is very exciting to see God moving.

By the way...did I mention that I am a pastor as well! Every person that works for us is either a pastor or youth pastor...a business ran by ministers...God is a good God!

Gotta go!

Why Can't I Make Our Church Website Using Frontpage?

I have had alot of churches ask the question, "Why can't we just do our website in frontpage?"
Some churches opt to do their own website in a wysiwyg program like frontpage. (If you are going to design your own website then Dreamweaver is another choice and is the better of the two.) The difference between one of these wysiwyg programs and a CMS system like we use at buildachurchwebsite.com is in the backend or working parts of the website itself. A CMS or content management system actually has "brains" behind it. You type in information on the frontend as a user and the backend takes that information, processes it, and then re-distributes it in real time on the front end again.

Frontpage is not a good choice for many reasons.

1. Sites look "cheezy"
2. HTML is botched up and gives poor rankings in search engines
3. Anyone updating the website has to have frontpage installed on their machine

New Church Website Design Blog

We figured it was time to start a blog of our activities at buildachurchwebsite.com . It has been over four years ago when we started our first stab into the website design industry. God has really blessed us through the last few years. Our business is starting to go forward, so that we always have a backlog of websites to design, while we maintain our current sites.

You can visit us at http://buildachurchwebsite.com

I am the owner and president of Build A Church Website, and will try to update this blog at least a few times a month to let all of our customers and prospective customers know what is going on up here in Church Web Design "Country".

Anyway's cherio....we will be back into this again later this week.

God Bless,

William Ellis