Web Design - Colonial View Baptist Church, Cookeville, TN

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Christian Website Design

Offering other people's content on your site can make you look good (or bad, depending upon the content chosen). If you link to a website that goes away or goes down - you lose that content, so offer people your own content, too!

Active-ss - Christian Search Engines Manual Submitter - Submit your site to over 100 Christian websites. They give you info about the sites like ease of submission, login requirements, and reciprocation so you can decide which ones are the best for you.
Agape Press - offers a news feed, like Baptist Press does (see our homepage).
arkwebs.com - FREE Christian Content for Your Web Site.
authenticwalk.com - free scripts for your html code: Free Discipleship Lessons, Bible tools and more.
Baptist Press offers a news feed for your website.
Bible Portal Project - Offers at their Developers Center from the Bible and other references available for syndication on your website. The content is wrapped in either JavaScript includes or XML. JavaScript includes that are customizable so that the colors and fonts can adapt to your site.
ChristianAnswers.net - offers free copy and paste code to add content for your website.
Christian Banner Ads - you design a banner and they circulate it on other websites, and in return you circulate other websites' banners on your page.
ChristianLance.com - An online community that connects Christian programmers with Christian webmasters.
christian-web-masters.com - tips, tutorials, and information on WebDesign & Development; Web Evangelism and Cyber-ministry; Web Hosting, Promotion, & Management; Web Master Resources and Tools; and Web Sites - Server Side.
Christain Web Ring - join yourself into an inter-connected ring of Christian sites.
Christians Unite - offers free dynamic content.
churchseek.net - offers 10 mb free space.
Chweb - claims they provide free web sites for Christian churches without advertisements nor pop-ups.
Equipping Ministries Foundation - This is the main website for the Ministry of Rick Meyers from Franklin, TN. Besides e-Sword and Pocket e-eSword, this National Heritage Foundation supported ministry offers WebEvents (Free HTML calendar creator for Windows), as well as MyGifts (Free spiritual gifts quiz for Windows: 60-question test that reveals your God given gifts for you to serve as a vital member of the Body of Christ).
Find Sticky.com Offers links to other resources.
Fish The Net - offers a directory of content!
Free Christian Content - assists Christian webmasters locate suitable free content for their web sites.
Free Graphic Animations - free clip art for your website
gospelcom.net - offers Christian webmaster help resources (Tips, tricks, and links).
HomewithGod - free guestbooks, prayer books, site submitters, graphics and more for Christian sites.
My Bible Tools - offers a customizable search tool suite that with many Bible versions, Greek Study, Commentaries, and illustrations.
OurChurch.Com - a Christian company that can help you create, host, and update a website for your church, ministry, or family. No software or programming is required and basic service is free.
RealMinistry.org has some beautifully-designed, young-person oriented John 3:16 Flash animations. One example is at the Gardendale Baptist Church of Corpus Christi, TX (Website); click on the "By the way, has anyone told you?" link.
Religious and Church website templates - Some freebies on the page, but you pay for templates.
SpiritRestoration.Org - more free resources including book reviews and polls.
Web Master Tip Site - has freebies.

Webdesign Software (free!)

Nvu - A Complete Web Authoring System - Designing a website? Here's free software that works with Mac, Linux and Windows PCs! From the site: "Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML."
WebPlus 6.0 - Web Site Design & Publishing - From that site, "If you thought creating web pages was difficult, think again! With WebPlus you'll be designing and publishing professional looking web sites fast. Whether you're a professional or novice you'll come to appreciate the easy to use atmosphere in WebPlus." Serif also offers PhotoPlus 6.0 - Photo and Image Editing; PagePlus SE - Desktop Publishing; DrawPlus 4.0 - Graphic Design and Vector Drawing; and 3DPlus 2.0 - 3D Animation and Modeling.

General Tutorials on Web Design

HTML Tutorial - In W3School's HTML tutorial you will learn how to use HTML to create your own Web site. HTML is very easy to learn!
NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML

Clip Art

Atlantic Fish - color and black & white clip art images
christart.com - full color images against a background color.
christfree.com - black and white "line art" images
clipart.christiansunite.com - many images. Many are very appealing to the eye
fci.crossnet.se - images with with textual verses and messages
Free Christian Clipart - color and black & white images (the homepage is freecc.free-online.co.uk)
gurney.co.uk - black and white "line art" images
ministryclipart.com - photographic clipart
sidestream.com Christian cartoons similar to "funny pages" cartoons

Design By Example

The Hartford Institute for Religion Research has done some congregation web-site critiques, so you might check out their thoughts.

This is "Church Web Sites That Work" and it is not an exhaustive list. There's no competition here; it's alphabetical. These are just some websites that either have good content or good design or both. If nothing else, it's sometimes interesting to see how other churches have designed their webpages.

I have a few ideas on content for your webpage. Since this page is already long, you can view them here. Here are some websites to inspire you when you design your church website.