AABC Web Team

Three Types of Church

Sites
Brochure
Limited amount of content
Static – almost never changes
Primarily for potential visitors
Directory
Additional content includes calendar of events, listing of
various ministries, staff, and missionaries.
Static except calendar
Magazine
Additional content includes articles, media (audio and video)
resources for community and for congregation.
Dynamic – frequent changes draw repeat visitors.
Functions as a communications hub for congregation
Presents a contemporary and information rich image of the
character of the church
Visitors will now visit a church website before ever
coming in the doors 78.6% of the time.
Interesting Sites
for Inspiration
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Vision for the site
1. Visually Attractive – great first impression for
visitors
2. Easy to use – logical navigation, focused on user
3. Dynamic – up to date, fresh content added
frequently
4. Primary Audience & Purposes
• Church Seekers
• wanting to know more about us to determine if we can meet their
needs
• Attenders
• Communications hub for information, schedules, event
registration, directory etc.
• Easy access to resources needed for ministry
 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

SECTION HOME: Graphic of church building

•Contact Information
•Staff Profiles (Pastor’s Bio, Elders, Deacons)
•Doctrinal Statement
•Constitution
•Five Year Plan
•Church History
•Becoming a Member of AABC

(This section is primarily a 1 time setup – no ongoing content)

 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

SECTON HOME: Welcome from the Pastor (embedded video?)

•What We Believe (summary of doctrine)

•Directions & Map (embedded Google map)
•Service Schedule
•What to expect (style of worship & music - embedded video?)
•Nursery & Junior Church (link to section pages)

(This section is primarily a 1 time setup – no ongoing content)

 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

SECTION HOME: General Graphic

•How can I Be Saved?

•Biblical Answers to Life’s Questions
•Bible Study Helps
•Daily Devotionals
•Links to On-line Spiritual Resources
•On-line Bible (embedded application)

(This section is primarily a 1 time setup – no ongoing content)

 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

SECTION HOME: Graphic Banner for current sermon series

(small version of banner also appears on home page as link to
here)

•Listen / View This Week’s Sermon

•Live broadcast of Sunday Worship service (10:30 AM)
•Subscribe to AABC Podcasts on iTunes
•Sermon Archives (searchable by keyword, reference)
•Listen to Adult Bible Fellowship Lessons (link to ABF page)
•Document & File Library
(download documents, sermon outlines, weekly bulletins, church
directory etc)
 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

Section Home: Video Intro with Graphic banners for sections

•Adult Fellowship Blog
•Adult Bible Fellowship Classes
•Mixed Class (Handouts & Audio Recording of Lessons)
•Ladies Class (Handouts & Audio Recording of Lessons)
•Chosen Vessels Women's Ministry
•About Chosen Vessels
•Events
•Women’s Resources
•Men’s Ministry & Prayer Groups
•(same as women's)
•Neighborhood Home Groups
•About NHG (Overview with photos of each group)
•Resources for Home Groups
 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

Section Home: Graphic Banner for upcoming events

•Teen Blog (articles by teens about teen events with photos/videos)
•Word of Life Teens
•About Word of Life (Intro video, + leaders, WOL schedule)
•DIA Groups
•Contests
•Photo Albums
•WOL Resources
•Praise Band
•About Praise Band (Intro video)
•Download Praise Band Music (MP3 & iTunes Podcast)
•No Strings Attached Puppet Team
•About our Puppet Team (intro video, schedule, leaders,etc)
•Puppet Resources (scripts, practice audio tracts download)
•Outreach – Teen Mission Opportunities (link to missions trips)
 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

Section Home: Graphic Banner for section links below

•Children’s Ministry Blog
•Olympian Club for kids
•About Olympians (Leaders, Club Schedule (intro video? )
•Photo Albums
•Challenger (age 6-8) (awards, levels, verse audio files etc)
•Conqueror (age 8-10) (awards, levels, verse audio files etc)
•Champion (age 10-12) (awards, levels, verse audio files etc)
•Sunday School Classes
•About Our Sunday School (class listing, teacher contacts)
•What We Teach Curriculum Outlines
•Resources for Teachers
•Nursery Program
•About our Nursery (Welcome, committee contacts, policies, what to expect)
•Nursery Workers Training
•Staffing Calendar
•Junior Church
•About our Junior Church Program
•Junior Church Curriculum Resources & Music
•Staffing Calendar
 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

Section Home: Graphic Banner for upcoming events

•Missions Blog (missionary news, links to prayer letters, upcoming
events)

•Missions Committee
•Community Outreach
•Annual Almond Days Parade
•Christmas Coffee House
•Missions Trips
•Philadelphia Outreach
•New York City Outreach
•Camp Evangel Outreach
•Missionary Profiles
•New York State
•United States
•Overseas
 Site Structure
About Us | Visitors | Spiritual Help | Media Center | Adults | Teens | Children | Reaching Out |
Giving & Serving

•On-line Giving Contributions

•Send an e-invitation (attend, download sermon etc)
•Caring Network (prayer & visitation tracking)
•Servant’s Heart Program
•About Servant’s Heart (description, coordinators contact)
•Ministry Opportunity Listing
•Resources
•Library
•About our library
•Featured Books
•On-line Card Catalog?
•Technology Committee
•About the Tech Committee (description, members etc)
•Phone Tree
•AV Media Production
•Computer Network
•Web Design Team
•Tech Meeting Minutes
•Building Committee
•About the Building Committee
•Building Project Updates
What's a Content
Management System?
A software application that allows non-technical users
to make changes to an existing website with little or
no training, simply by using an internet browser to
add or edit information in an on-line template. The
CMS then automatically generates and delivers the
content to the Web site visitor when each page is
viewed.

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Web Site Team Organization
Technology
Committee
Site Administrator
Gary Acker

Graphic Site Editor Calendar

Design &
Technical
Coordinat
Home Page Support
Greg Palmer or
Linda Prinzi Ashley Palmer

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•Site Admin
Committee
Overall site implementation, templates, backend CMS.
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Gary Acker
•Graphic Design & Home Page (Publisher)
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for ideas, keeping content up-to-date, posting blog articles,
gathering information from contributors, entering content into
CMS.
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What are Web Site
Standards
•Alignment of Text ?
•Font sizes, styles, color scheme
•Photo quality (resolution) and cropping guidelines
• Resized proportionally
•Photo caption guidelines
•Checked for spelling, grammar, sentence structure

•Church Phone number, address and email link at the

bottom of every page.

Web site is the first impression visitors may have of

our church. We want it to be of excellent quality.
 Next Steps

1. Research other church sites for ideas / inspiration

2. Gather Information related to your area(s)
3. Find or arrange for contributors
4. Begin writing
5. Training for Content Management System
1. SET A DATE ___________
6. Begin Posting & Editing Process