Church Web Resources


Technology Celebration Slides  – (PDF)

Design Resources:
PSDTuts – Learn how to use Photoshop well – http://psd.tutsplus.com/
Kuler Color Palette Designer – http://kuler.adobe.com/
Pattern Tap – Web Layout Examples – http://patterntap.com/
Brusheezy – Photoshop brushes – http://brusheezy.com
Smashingmagazine – Good source of inspiration – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Images and fonts – http://veer.com
Images – http://iStockphoto.com 

Example church sites for instiration:
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/best-church-websites/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/beautiful-church-websites/ 

Social Sites:
Photo Sharing – flickr.com
Video Sharing – youtube.com
Twitter – twitter.com
Social Network – facebook.com
Social Network – myspace.com
Business Network – linkedin.com

eNewsletters & invitations:
Constant Contact – constantcontact.com
Evite – evite.com

Content Management Systems:
http://drupal.org/   –   Free
http://wordpress.org    –   Free
http://www.joomla.org/    –   Free 
http://www.ekklesia360.com/    –    Not Free

Tools used at Church of the Beloved:
For our Content Mangement System we use WordPress with the following plugins:

For our Podcasting we record using a Zoom H2.  We edit the audio using Audacity and encode using Bonk Enc.

For document management and collaboration we use Google Apps

2 responses to “Church Web Resources”

  1. Thanks for your great ideas. Very helpful. attended your workshop at NW WA Synod for Lutheran church
    Blessing in all you do….

  2. Thanks for your great ideas. Very helpful. attended your workshop at NW WA Synod for Lutheran church
    Blessing in all you do….

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