Comments on: 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/ Trying to be strategic. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:56:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Karen http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-33544 Karen Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:43:18 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-33544 Some pretty good tips, however; alot of your comments are a matter of opinion. What may make one person visit a church may on the otherhand prevent someone eles from coming. Besides a website should not become onesize fits all. Every church is unique and church have to put up affordabe sites according to the budget of the ministry. Every chuch is not a some called MEGA church. Our main goal should be to win the lost for Christ. Sometimes all of this glitzs and glamour becomes a hinderance instead of a help. If Jesus be lifted up he will draw all men to him. No matter what the site looks like if Jesus is the center of the action then people will come no matter what. Again, good tips, but what works for one may not work for all. Have a great day. Some pretty good tips, however; alot of your comments are a matter of opinion. What may make one person visit a church may on the otherhand prevent someone eles from coming. Besides a website should not become onesize fits all.

Every church is unique and church have to put up affordabe sites according to the budget of the ministry. Every chuch is not a some called MEGA church. Our main goal should be to win the lost for Christ.

Sometimes all of this glitzs and glamour becomes a hinderance instead of a help. If Jesus be lifted up he will draw all men to him. No matter what the site looks like if Jesus is the center of the action then people will come no matter what.

Again, good tips, but what works for one may not work for all. Have a great day.

]]> By: Church websites that KEEP people AWAY « Beyond the Course http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-31075 Church websites that KEEP people AWAY « Beyond the Course Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:28:56 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-31075 [...] Church websites that KEEP people AWAY Think about YOUR church website when you read Tony Morgan’s “10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website“: [...] [...] Church websites that KEEP people AWAY Think about YOUR church website when you read Tony Morgan’s “10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website“: [...]

]]> By: Web site content tips « Small Church Tech http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-30641 Web site content tips « Small Church Tech Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:40:43 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-30641 [...] Here’s a link to the article from tonymorganlive.com. Filed under: Web sites No Comments Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) ( subscribe to comments on this post ) [...] [...] Here’s a link to the article from tonymorganlive.com. Filed under: Web sites No Comments Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) ( subscribe to comments on this post ) [...]

]]> By: Megan D http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-29198 Megan D Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:07:51 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-29198 I want to see a picture of the pastor on the website because if he's a hundred years old or anywhere near it, I'm not attending. I love old people but not old pastors. They tend to be super old-school. In a bad, everyone should "dress thier Sunday best" way. I very very strongly dislike stock photography. Those people aren't members of your church. I want to see actual attenders in actual settings- not smiling happy people holding hands in the grass. It turns me off in a big way. FAKE FAKE FAKE is all I can think. And yes, please, somewhere list your ministries and small groups. If people withing my life status are not meeting together at your church or outside of it, I don't want to go. Otherwise, I pretty much agree. It's super frustrating to not be able to easily find service times or other happenings at a church on thier website. I want to see a picture of the pastor on the website because if he’s a hundred years old or anywhere near it, I’m not attending. I love old people but not old pastors. They tend to be super old-school. In a bad, everyone should “dress thier Sunday best” way.

I very very strongly dislike stock photography. Those people aren’t members of your church. I want to see actual attenders in actual settings- not smiling happy people holding hands in the grass. It turns me off in a big way. FAKE FAKE FAKE is all I can think.

And yes, please, somewhere list your ministries and small groups. If people withing my life status are not meeting together at your church or outside of it, I don’t want to go.

Otherwise, I pretty much agree. It’s super frustrating to not be able to easily find service times or other happenings at a church on thier website.

]]> By: Rev. Wang http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-27315 Rev. Wang Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:53:58 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-27315 This is a very good checklist to our church's website. Thanks a lot. This is a very good checklist to our church’s website. Thanks a lot.

]]> By: 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website | ANTWONDAVIS.COM http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-27217 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website | ANTWONDAVIS.COM Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:10:32 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-27217 [...] silly as the title may sound, I found this post by Tony Morgan to be very interesting. As a growing and developing designer and thinker, this is [...] [...] silly as the title may sound, I found this post by Tony Morgan to be very interesting. As a growing and developing designer and thinker, this is [...]

]]> By: Most Popular Posts of July 09 | TonyMorganLive.com http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-26320 Most Popular Posts of July 09 | TonyMorganLive.com Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:01:31 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-26320 [...] 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website [...] [...] 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website [...]

]]> By: Pastor Todd http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-26297 Pastor Todd Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:01:39 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-26297 I was forwarded your blog entry and found it super-helpful. Currently our Church uses a standard template and it is challenging to "fine tune" it to look the way we want while following the designer's template. I found a great site www.fudamentalweb.org that does great design work, but is a bit over my price range right now. Most of us Pastors are NOT web design gurus nor are we able to afford a high quality web designer to do the job without costing an "arm and a leg." Does anyone have any ideas on this subject so our websites don't push people away? Also, does anyone mention printed media and it's format and presentation? Any ideas, links, send them my way. I was forwarded your blog entry and found it super-helpful. Currently our Church uses a standard template and it is challenging to “fine tune” it to look the way we want while following the designer’s template.

I found a great site http://www.fudamentalweb.org that does great design work, but is a bit over my price range right now.

Most of us Pastors are NOT web design gurus nor are we able to afford a high quality web designer to do the job without costing an “arm and a leg.” Does anyone have any ideas on this subject so our websites don’t push people away?

Also, does anyone mention printed media and it’s format and presentation? Any ideas, links, send them my way.

]]> By: Is your website working for or against you? « The Pastor Coach Blog: kills 99.9% of germs http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-24355 Is your website working for or against you? « The Pastor Coach Blog: kills 99.9% of germs Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:29:22 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-24355 [...] gives us a list of 10 things about your website that drive guests away.  Read his article here: http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-vis... | Coaching Works | July 17th, 2009 | Category: Website Design [...] [...] gives us a list of 10 things about your website that drive guests away.  Read his article here: http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-vis... | Coaching Works | July 17th, 2009 | Category: Website Design [...]

]]> By: Church websites: it’s not really about us http://tonymorganlive.com/2005/05/14/10-easy-ways-to-keep-me-from-visiting-your-church-because-i-visited-your-website/#comment-23926 Church websites: it’s not really about us Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:06:22 +0000 http://tonymorgan.updatable.cc/?p=41#comment-23926 [...] 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website is well worth reading. Share and [...] [...] 10 Easy Ways to Keep Me from Visiting Your Church Because I Visited Your Website is well worth reading. Share and [...]

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