"Having sat in on a meeting with the people who were originally hosting our antiquated website, I confess that I was completely out of my depth. They were discussing the formats and domains etc. and using terminology that they were all comfortable with, but which meant little to me. They appeared to be very competent and clued up as to what they could offer, and it all sounded great.

Their quote then duly arrived and it was horrendous – with ever increasing costs should this be added or that be needed in the future. This facilitated the Trustees to look at alternatives. We came across Church Pages and I contacted Heather by phone. What an absolute joy to speak with someone who spoke my language. Heather asked a few questions as to what we were looking for, and sent through a quote that was much more affordable.

The finished website looked amazing, and we know that we can ask questions and get assistance should we need it."

Fr.  Joe, St Stephen's Church, Guernsey

St Stephen's Church, Guernsey has been a sacred place to encounter God through the richness of liturgy, the Bible, Mass, and Baptism for over 150 years.

How the website was designed and built

St Stephen's was looking to refresh their website, but found their existing provider's quote rather expensive. Finding Church Pages online they got in touch to see how we could help them.

This was the start of a number of telephone and email conversations between the Trustees and the Church Pages' team to decide what the website should look like. From this information we were able to create a site using the Isaiah template that reflected the vision that St Stephen's had had for their website..

We provide access to the site (that was yet to be published) and Fr. Joe commented that, "The ability to play with the website and to see what we could do (without anyone else seeing our amateur bungling) was tremendously helpful. After a few initially hesitant attempts at posting pictures etc. we gained the confidence to try other things." .

The finished website benefits from:

• A modern website that reflects the tradition of St Stephen's.
• A responsive website that works well on mobiles and tablets.
• A site wide search.
• A "Verse of the Day" panel that updates automatically.
• An easy to edit and maintain site.
• Optimisation
• The Church Page's team on hand to help if needed!

What else did Church Pages do?

We followed up with training on how to use the site and tweaked the church's logo so that it was more user friendly

How did the website go live?

Once we St Stephen's were happy with the site we helped them with the practicalities of changing the domain name's records so the site could go live..

Conclusion

Fr. Joe and his congregation were very happy with the website and felt supported by the Church Pages' team.

You can see the St Stephen's church website here.