"The site has taken shape beautifully and we are very pleased with it."

Kiara, Church of the Living God, Twickenham

Zac Abraham, the pastor of Church of the Living God (CotLG) first contacted us to discuss hosting his website. After chatting with us, and finding out that we had a ChurchSuite integration the church decided that they wanted a bespoke website that was easier to edit, and better reflected their community.

How the website was designed and built

We worked very closely with CotLG to ensure that we worked within their brief and provided the website that they were hoping for. We were deeply moved by their church's videos and wanted to ensure that the website reflected the sense of family and togetherness that the congregation clearly felt. The depth of relationships between members were clearly visible from their imagery and it was important to  us that this was clear from the design.

The finished website benefits from the following:

• A welcoming home page that includes video to help the visitor to find out more about CotLG.
• A site that serves the village and the congregation.
• An embedded link to Church Suite.
• Access controlled areas for congregation and leaders.
• Links to sermons that are filtered so can be searched.
• Links to social media so that people can connect online.
• Verse of the day widget that changes the bible verse daily.
• A site that can be fully maintained by the church.

The Church Pages team were pleased with the end result.

What else did Church Pages do?

We added in custom design in places to give the site its own identity. From the logo we chose the site's colours, and ensured that they worked well to provide an aesthetic look to the site.

We also chose the images from the amazing selection that we were sent to reflect the joy, friendship, and fellowship that is at the heart of the church. The passion for the Word and for Jesus shines through all that they do, and we wanted that to shine through the website.

As part of the design fee we added optimisation tags to all pages, and provided a comprehensive training session for the team at CotLG so that they could learn how to edit their site. Within this advice was given on how to add title tags to pages and the importance of content for search engines.

We were daily on hand during the first few weeks of the site's launch as CotLG became familiar with how to edit their site.

The Church Pages' software integrates with Google Analytics, but we also added in analytics software that is very simple to use to help CotLG see how their site performs.

Conclusion

We were pleased with the final website and happy that CotLG could use ChurchSuite to help promote events, services, and reach out to the community with ease.