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What type of Website should I do for a church? I also need some tips for it. Please help me with.?

I am member of a local church in Denver colorado y we are in the need of creating a website for our church. They just assigned me to create it and get more information about it.

I have no idea how to start it.

Do you know guys a cheap or free program to create it?

Please give more information.

Thank you so much and God bless all of you.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    To set up a website, there are three steps you will need to take:

    *** Get Your Domain Name

    A domain name is a name you want to call your website. For example, yahoo.com, google.com, wikipedia.org... . To obtain a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. Take into consideration that you cannot buy a domain for life. You get it for a period of one to ten years. If you fail to renew the domain name at the end of its term, the registration of the domain will be revoked and the domain name may be acquired by another party.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I would check into wordpress. It's prob the best way to get into something like that. A big church would want some sort of CMS (content management system) so they could make changes easily... I've gone the route of flash before because it's easy to make simple sites but something like wordpress is prob the best thing for a church....and they have tons of themes that you can apply so after you get the thing done if they change something you aren't screwed.

    If you are looking for idea on what all church websites do check out some of the big ones and scale WAY back... The big ones I know of are:

    Http://churchonthemove.com and their youth http://oneighty.com/

    And http://www.lakewood.cc/

    All use a custom programmed CMS program but that's becaus their sites are HUGE!

    Check out what google video and YouTube tutorials have to say about wordpress.

    To get you started I found these: http://tinyurl.com/Wordpresschurch

    Source(s): Http://wordpress.org, http://tinyurl.com/Wordpresschurch, Http://churchonthemove.com, http://oneighty.com,/ http://www.lakewood.cc/
  • 1 decade ago

    Check out http://wordpress.org/ You can setup a site cheaply on HostMonster.com (which has very good service) and use WordPress to create the website in. Look at some of their examples and you can see that its great for exactly what you want to do. You can post current events, items, links etc on a daily basis without really having to modify the overall site. You can easily train folks that aren't very computer savvy to update events and the like on it without having to know much coding wise.

  • 1 decade ago

    just get a free gmail account.

    then goto

    www.blogspot.com

    now you can start your own blog for church.

    check out my blog on blogspot from the link-below (its a blog but it 'looks' like a website)

    i also don't know how to make website but blogspot is very user-friendly.

    if you know how to send email then you can do it too.

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  • 1 decade ago

    just call me i`ll help u out.....

    coz i m not getting totaly.......

    i m a web designer i`ll defiantly help u out........

    just a cost of that u`l help me too.....

    i dont know the pray of church vil u plz help me to learn the pray coz i luv churches tooooooo.

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