More Tips for Church Websites.

Here are the next 25 of the Tips for Church Websites from Mark Stephenson’s book: Web-Empower Your Church.  But first a few links
.http://www.nigeriansermons.com/stories/story-70-tips.htm
I so agreed with them about 'splash pages' being annoying.

Actually that will do for links I think, the rest are repetitive. 

1. Put the address of the church on the template footer.
2. Never put the words “under construction” or an “under construction” graphic anywhere on your website.
3. Provide an alternative to the back button on your navigation.
4. Use a CMS, and train many people to help maintain your website.
5. Let the people who generate the content enter the content.
6. Make sure pictures are resized to their final display size, not just resized with HTML.
7. Use JPG’s for photos.
8. Use GIF’s for animation and cartoons.
9. Consider design for viewing pages with PDAs and cell phones.
10. If at all possible, transcribe your sermons and post them in text format.
11. Minimize use of plug-ins and technology tricks.
12. Avoid Java applets.
13. Add interactive features and online community to your website.
14. Don’t do this alone; get at least a few other people to help.
15. If someone posts something nasty to your website, make it a ministry opportunity.
16. Use fewer words; use words most people understand; remember visitors may be from far away.
17. To make large blocks of text more readable, narrow the columns to less than 500 pixels wide.
18. Avoid mistakes, and make removing mistakes top priority.
19. Know from the start that this takes much longer than you would ever think.
20. Take security very, very seriously.
21. Remember that it not about technology; it is about ministry.
22. Use standard XHTML.
23. Plan your folder structure, folder names, file naming and styles.
24. Use Flash or video for communication not just looks.
25. Don’t use Flash for navigation.