Author: Aigars Silkalns
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Church Website Photography: How to Get Photos That Build Trust
A first-time visitor decides whether to walk through your doors partly based on what they see on your website — and nothing sinks that decision faster than fake-looking stock photos of strangers. Real, warm photos of your actual church do the opposite: they let a nervous newcomer picture themselves there before they ever arrive. This…
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How to Choose (and Work With) a Church Website Designer
You’ve decided to hire someone to build your church website — smart, if you want a professional result without doing it yourself. But the church-web-design world is full of one-sided advice from companies selling their own service, and it’s easy to end up locked into a site you don’t own and can’t edit. This is…
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How to Speed Up Your Church Website (Core Web Vitals Guide)
Someone searches “church near me” on their phone on a Sunday morning, taps your site… and waits. And waits. Then taps the next result. A slow website quietly loses the exact visitor you most want to reach — and it gently drags down your search rankings too, because Google measures speed. The good news: most…
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How to Add a Spanish Version to Your Church Website
Here’s a pattern we see constantly: a church holds a vibrant bilingual service on Sunday — and runs an English-only website the other six days. The neighbors most likely to be searching “iglesia cerca de mí” never find a word in their language. If your church is reaching (or wants to reach) Spanish-speaking neighbors, adding…
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How to Embed Your YouTube Live Stream on Your Church Website
You already stream your service to YouTube — but sending people off your website to watch (where they’re one click from a dozen unrelated videos) is a missed opportunity. Embedding the live stream on your own site keeps people on your turf, beside your “Give” button and your “Plan a Visit” link. This is a…
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The Church Contact Page: What to Include + Examples
The contact page is one of the most-visited pages on any church website — and one of the most neglected. Too often it’s a lonely form floating on an empty page, with no address, no map, and a prayer request that vanishes into an inbox nobody checks. Done right, your contact page reassures first-time visitors,…
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How to Build a Church Small Groups Page That Actually Fills Groups
Your church believes life is better in community — so why does your small groups page so often fail to get anyone into a group? Usually it’s not the groups; it’s the page. A buried PDF, a stale list of names, or a single generic contact form quietly loses the very people who were ready…
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DIY vs Hiring a Designer for Your Church Website: How to Decide
Every church that needs a website faces the same fork in the road: build it yourself, or pay someone to build it? The internet is full of confident answers — but almost all of them come from companies selling the very thing they recommend. Builders tell you to DIY; agencies tell you to hire them;…
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Ministry Designs Review: Is This Done-For-You Church Website Service Worth It?
If building and maintaining a church website yourself sounds exhausting, a done-for-you service like Ministry Designs promises to take the whole thing off your plate — they build it, host it, add your sermons and events, and keep it running, all for a monthly fee. It’s an appealing pitch for a busy church with no…
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Subsplash vs Pushpay: Which Church App & Giving Platform Wins?
If your church has outgrown a basic giving button and a DIY website, the conversation usually narrows to two premium platforms: Subsplash and Pushpay. Both are high-end, app-first systems built for larger churches, both bundle a custom mobile app with giving and member tools, and both quote you privately rather than posting a price. So…