"I'm thrilled with the website.

Gathering information and photographs for our website has been a very interesting experience. My IT skills are not great, but I learned so much, and whenever I was puzzled about how to send information or pictures to the Church Pages' Team I always had a clear explanation (and a patient one).

We as a church, are very happy with the resulting website, and have had many compliments on it."

Carol Guille, St Martin's Church, Guernsey

St Martin's Church, Guernsey is a warm and friendly church in Guernsey. The church's vision is to see God’s love transform their lives, thier community, and their world.

How the website was designed and built

Carol contacted us having seen a couple of other churches' websites. She knew that she might find the process of having St Martin's website redesigned challenging, and wanted to work with a company that was there to support her. As Church Pages' aim is to support churches in their mission to outreach to their community then we were a good fit for Carol.

Fortunately Guernsey is a very beautiful island and so Carol supplied us with some outstanding photographs. We were also supplied with engaging photos from the every day life of the church, which helped to make the site look warm and friendly.

The embedded YouTube video on the home page of the website gave Rev Daniel Foot and opportunity to engage with the web visitor in a welcoming and warm way, making clear what the aim of the church was. His smiling face reflects the entire site, which was designed to be friendly, engaging, and easy to navigate.

We also worked with the logo colours to create a colour palette for the website that perfectly reflected the church. Harmonious colours were chosen that were warm, easy to read, and made the site clean and uncluttered.

The finished website benefits from:

• A highly engaging website that benefits from and easy to use Content Management System
• A responsive site designed that works well on mobiles
• A site wide search
• Sign up for Alpha on the home page that encourages visitors to find out more about the course
• Embedded YouTube video of Rev Daniel Foot
• A "Verse of the Day" panel that updates automatically.
• Optimisation

What else did Church Pages do?

We provided training, sourced loyalty free images, and optimised the site.

We also added in web stats.

How did the website go live?

Once we had the go ahead from the church to make the site live then we helped them with the practicalities of changing the domain name's records.

Conclusion

The church is very pleased with the new website, particularly the ease in which content can be changed and updated. It has been very well received by the congregation and will be an essential way in which the church can engage with their community. You can see the St Martin's Church Guerney's website here.