Church Crawley
"When you lead three churches you just know that your website is going to be crucial, but so often in the busyness of all the other tasks that you just don’t seem to have the time or the expertise to invest in it.
And then along came Church Pages and the Khooseller team...
They took the worry and demands of website design off our hands. They listened to what we wanted the website to portray and the function we wanted the website to perform. They then created a beautiful and practical website that ticks all of our users boxes.
Thank you so much Church Pages for your listening, expertise and reliability."
Steve Burston, Church Crawley
HTB Brighton's church plant into St John's Crawley meant that the church required a new website that reflected their mission statement to 'Love Jesus, Love People, Love Church and Love Crawley'. When the church grew by inviting St Peter's and St Richard's to join them in their mission, the website needed a radical overhaul to reflect the new family of churches.
How the website was designed and built
With such a radical change Church Crawley wanted a new website that reflected that they were one Church, whilst being three churches. With new branding and photographs Church Pages was set the task of creating a website that had two-tier navigation, whilst being easy to manage. The Church had always maintained the site themselves (with help from us when requested or needed), and so it was essential that the site could be edited simply, and work seamlessly with ChurchSuite,
The finished website benefits from the following:
- A highly engaging home page that reflects the mission of the church.
- Navigation that enables the visitor to find information about the individual churches.
- A website that reflects the Church's branding.
- Seamless integration with ChurchSuite throughout the site.
- Sermons uploaded.
- Google map so that the different Churches can be found easily.
- Links to social media so that people can connect online.
- A website that reflects the culture of the Church and Crawley.
The Church Pages team enjoyed the challenge of working on the website and were pleased with the finished design.
What else did Church Pages do?
Church Pages added optimisation tags and structured data to the site, as well as analytics.
How did the website go live?
When everything was ready then we helped Church Crawley with pointing their domains to our servers so that the new site could be seen.
Conclusion
This was a very challenging project for us, but we were pleased to be able to serve Steve and Liz Burston as they press on with their vision for Crawley.