"Our new website looks completely different from the old one and has received nothing but praise from our church members (which is a difficult thing to achieve!).

We would have no hesitation in recommending Church Pages to other churches

Thank you Church Pages!

Peter Allison, Royal Wootton Bassett Methodist Church

Royal Wootton Bassett Methodist Church is a welcoming and friendly church that wants to grow in its love for, and knowledge of, the Lord Jesus Christ whilst serving their community in Royal Wootton Bassett.

How the website was designed and built

Peter Allison contacted Church Pages in late 2021 because the church wanted a fresh, clean, and modern website. It took some time for the project to be started, but once Royal Wootton were ready to go we worked with the Peter and Stephen from the church as they gathered all the information that was needed to create the website.

The site was based on the Isaiah template because the template has a clean and modern look, and is easy to navigate.

Royal Wootton Basset wanted the home page to help web visitors to immediately understand the heart of the church as well as give clear information about Sunday Services. A Members' area was also required so that the congregation could easily access documents and directories.

With usability a high priority for the church, the site was designed with clear calls to action and mobile users in mind.

The finished website benefits from:

• A modern, clean, and user-friendly website
• A responsive site designed that is easy to edit
• An access controlled area for Members only.
• A live calendar of all the Church's events
• A blog where the Church can write news and let their community know what's on
• Optimisation

What else did Church Pages do?

We chose the colours of the website and the font using Royal Wootton Bassett Methodist Church's logo as our starting point.

With expertise in commercial marketing we were able to help Peter and Stephen think about what messages they wanted to get across that communicated the heart of the Church to those people outside of it.

We added in optimisation to the website, and gave training on how to edit the software, and added in web stats.

How did the website go live?

Once the Church was happy with the finished site, and training had been undertaken on how to make changes to the site, Royal Wootton Bassett amended their domain settings so that their site could go live.

Conclusion

The feedback that we received was tremendous and it was good to know that the whole Church was pleased with the end result. Knowing that Royal Wootton Bassett Methodist Church is making a difference in their community, and shining Jesus' love and compassion to those within and outside of the Church makes our job worthwhile.

You can see Royal Wootton Bassett Methodist Church's website here.

I would like to include all of Peter's thoughts on working with Church Pages which are as follows:

I first became aware of Church Pages when I saw the website of a local church and was
immediately struck by how fresh, clean and modern their site looked. The link at the bottom of their home page took me to the Church Pages website, where I was able to see the wide range and consistent quality of their work.

I was also impressed by the long list of websites they had done, and what an wide range
they represented – there were city and country churches, traditional and more
contemporary, ethnic churches, every denomination and non-denominational ones were all
included. I contacted the “webmaster” of the local church mentioned above, and he was
very positive about his dealings with Church Pages in every way.

So what sort of things impressed me before we went “live” in February 2023? Firstly, I was
clearly dealing with a company in touch with the modern online world and with professional
standards. They were also aware of the wide range of churches in our country, which
manage to cater for Christians from all backgrounds and serve their communities.

They knew just what questions to ask, which we had never really asked ourselves before.

Things like “How would you describe your church in a couple of sentences?” “What kind of
message are you trying to project with your website?” As we were constructing the site with them, they were able to ask probing questions so that the finer details of our pages were “spot-on”.

Our previous website was maintained by just one person and was in urgent need of an
update. This was achieved such that our new website looks completely different from the
old one and has received nothing but praise from our church members (which is a difficult
thing to achieve). We now have two church members who are able to maintain the site and
share responsibilities from day-to-day, with the expertise of Church Pages to back us up.
Finally, this was achieved for a modest one-off fee, with the monthly hosting charges very
similar to those of our previous provider. We would have no hesitation in recommending
Church Pages to other churches.

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