Cory Miller of ChurchCommunicationsPro.com just kicked off a new series called “Building Rockin Church Websites.” If you are involved with your church’s website, be sure to check it out over the next few weeks. He should be covering some good topics.

One of today’s posts features 15 questions he asked me about Bombay Creative (my company) and building church websites. Here’s the Q&A:

1. What’s your company’s mission?

To provide design and marketing services that help ministries achieve their purpose.

2. Can you give me some background on how you started doing church web sites?

We have always been very active in ministry. We didn’t start out planning to design lots of church websites, but our ministry affiliations naturally led us in that direction.

3. What products and services do you specialize in?

We offer graphic design, web development, and church consulting services. Web development is, by far, our most popular service.

4. Any products you would like to highlight or mention that would be of specific value to churches?

We have a free monthly newsletter called Church Relevance, and of course, we started a blog with the same name.

5. What are the basic steps to designing a church site?

Our design process varies with each church. Every church has its own unique corporate culture so we try to accommodate them with a process that best fits their culture. However, a general idea of the design path we try to stay on is:

1. Learn what the church needs and wants their website to be.
2. Learn the church’s branding (vision, goals, target audience, what makes it unique).
3. Custom design a home page draft based on their needs, preferences, and branding. This design is tweaked and altered until the church has a design they love, and we feel confident that it will help them achieve their goals for their website.
4. Once a home page draft is approved, we begin design and development of the entire site and involve the church in the process at necessary checkpoints.
5. Once design, development, and testing is complete, we launch the website.
6. Typically, churches prefer us to handle ongoing maintenance of the site to ensure that its seamless quality is maintained.

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