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Overview Church123 (C123) is a church website CMS product developed by a small established company based in London. Serving customers across the globe, they are highly recommended by many leading Christian organisations such as The Church of England, The Baptist Union, The Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Evangelical Alliance. C123 is has been designed very much with the non-technical

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As promised, I am going to provide an independent review of the 3 leading UK Church website Content Management Systems (CMS). They are Church Insight, Church123 and Church Advance. There are a few other minor UK church CMS players, but I have close working relationship with all 3 of these providers so I can write from experience and offer a balanced first-hand view. OverviewChurch Insight (CI) is

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A good stock of current photographs is a pretty vital 'raw material' for any website project and indeed most church publicity materials. Good photographs will aid good design. When commissioning photography for a church website here are some of the issues it is good to consider: Avoid a series of mugshots. Try to capture people in action - talking, relating together, working together and doing

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Many churches are waking up to the fact that their website can be the main point of contact for visitors to their church. Beyond that the internet is a also a great opportunity for Evangelism and there are many great evangelistic sites (An example is one I recently designed "What's Life About?" site, written by Trinity Baptist Church, Tenterden). The Internet Evangelism Coalition (IEC) is

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Before you begin any web site project you must consider how the site will be maintained and updated after it is launched. In the early days of the Internet many websites were essentially online brochures, which carried basic information about the organisation but were not regularly updated or very interactive. There is still a place for a the simple 'brochure-type' church websites that are an

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Many times I have been approached by clients who want a web site but who have not really thought through what they want to say and to who they are saying it. We must define who the site is for, what is its purposes beyond just having an online presence. Having defined the target audience and what the message is, it is important that the content is planned and the structure decided upon before

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Until the last few years the majority of church websites were frankly awful, usually cheaply put together by an enthusiastic amateur volunteer from within the church who often had little understanding of how to structure information or of design aesthetics. To further worsen the effect, after the initial burst of energy the enthusiasm would die off and the site would be less frequently updated

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Out of the blue I was recently invited to the Christian Blog and web Awards as two of the web sites that I designed had been nominated. The Phatfish site was runner up in the "Best Worship Blogg" category, although bizzarely the site is not a blog and is really about the activities of the band and only loosely related to'worship'. This is the first year of the Christian 'Bloggies' and although

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