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My Transfer From Hostgator to SiteGround (And Why I Moved)

My Transfer From Hostgator to SiteGround (And Why I Moved)

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

There are about as many reasons to search for a new hosting provider as there are reasons to build a website. When the time came …

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Church Website Maintenance: 25 Tasks You Can Outsource Today

Church Website Maintenance: 25 Tasks You Can Outsource Today

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

What thoughts come to mind when you hear the phrase “church website maintenance”? Church website maintenance is time-consuming If you’re a busy leader in a …

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The Easy Way to Apply Church Website Color Schemes

The Easy Way to Apply Church Website Color Schemes

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Successfully picking and combining colors to produce beautiful palettes for visual design projects is both an art and science. Color pickers and palette (or color …

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Church Website Ideas Is A Flipboard Magazine

Church Website Ideas Is A Flipboard Magazine

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

The interwebs are full of discussions and advice about church tech. A lot of it is rock solid guidance, full of wisdom and value. Some …

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Church Website Design Tools: 3 Cool Finds

Church Website Design Tools: 3 Cool Finds

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Church website design and content creation is made so much easier with the right tools. It’s been awhile since a post was published here pointing …

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Outsourcing: How to Work Smarter and Get Things Done

Outsourcing: How to Work Smarter and Get Things Done

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Building and maintaining a church website is time-consuming work. Accomplishing even small, simple tasks can be a huge challenge for the lone church Web worker …

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A Church Website Powered by WordPress: What to Know

A Church Website Powered by WordPress: What to Know

By: Steven Gliebe|Posted in: Tools & Resources

It’s possible you’ve heard of WordPress. It powers tens of millions of websites and is a popular solution for church websites. The WordPress project began …

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600+ Free Worship Loops For Churches

600+ Free Worship Loops For Churches

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Years ago, as the Media Ministry leader for a local small church, I discovered free worship loops for Easyworship. What a refreshing change they were …

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Choosing An Online Giving Solution For Your Church Website (Part 2)

Choosing An Online Giving Solution For Your Church Website (Part 2)

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

In my last post, Choosing An Online Giving Solution For Your Church Website (Part 1),  I presented an overview of what you can expect as …

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Choosing An Online Giving Solution For Your Church Website (Part 1)

Choosing An Online Giving Solution For Your Church Website (Part 1)

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Choosing an online giving solution for your church website should be pretty painless, right? Well, as I’ve been researching the idea of proposing online giving …

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Preview WordPress 3.8 Features You Can Test Drive TODAY

Preview WordPress 3.8 Features You Can Test Drive TODAY

By: Grace McCrorie|Posted in: Tools & Resources

WordPress 3.8 is scheduled for release on December 12th. YAY! WordPress 3.7, released about a month ago, was all about functional improvements. We saw plenty …

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Stay Focused – 8 Apps That Will Keep You Focused

Stay Focused – 8 Apps That Will Keep You Focused

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

We live in a busy world. Endless amounts of data are being presented to us, and all of them are fighting for a small piece …

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Urban City Theme Review

Urban City Theme Review

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

I am starting a new, hopefully weekly, feature were I review various church website services and offerings. This week I wanted to take a look …

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8 Best WordPress Themes for Churches or Non-Profits

8 Best WordPress Themes for Churches or Non-Profits

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

I love WordPress. When done right, using WordPress for your church website is a great choice for a CMS. Unfortunately, there are not a lot …

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8 Things You Need to Setup Your Own Web Server

8 Things You Need to Setup Your Own Web Server

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Original Server Photo by: Tom Raftery via Flickr For some of us, paying a hosting service is worth the monthly cost. Being able to hand …

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Holiday Apple Gift Guide for Church Creatives

Holiday Apple Gift Guide for Church Creatives

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

It’s coming up on the holiday season, and it’s time to start thinking about gifts for family and friends. It might also be time to …

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Defined: What Is The Cloud?

Defined: What Is The Cloud?

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Image Credit: mnsc @fickr The internet is always changing, it is always adapting, and it is always has something new to offer. The concept of …

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6 Great Apps for Your Jailbroken iOS Device

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Anyone who knows me, knows that I love Apple products. I especially love my iPhone 3GS. But iOS doesn’t have all the features I want, …

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I Love Subtle Patterns

I Love Subtle Patterns

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

This site is my new favorite. I am always looking for nice, clean, high quality patterns for my designs. Subtle Patterns gives you the ability …

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Bundle Hunt Is Back, Still Awesome.

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

So I have no connection to Bundle Hunt, but whenever I see a pack like this for sale, I jump on it. The great thing …

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13 Apps From My Digital Toolbox

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

I always enjoy when people share the tools they use everyday to do their jobs. Today I am sharing with you a few of my …

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Is Your Pastor Bad At Blogging? Try Tumblr!

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

I have previously blogged about pastors being really bad at updating their blogs. Blogging is hard work, takes time, resources, and patience. Recently a client …

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Simple CMS: A Preview of a Simple CMS

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

This is our first in a series of content management system previews. Church Website Ideas is taking time to highlight content management systems that we …

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4 New Twitter Tools for Your Church

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Twitter is a big deal to some people that attend your church. I have believe that we should use as many platforms as possible to …

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7 Donation WordPress Plugins for Your Church Website

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Developing your church website on WordPress is a great solution for most churches. It’s free, there are thousands of great themes, and you can extend …

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Why Thesis Theme Rules

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Recently we posted a list of top content management systems for churches and ministries. While all of these systems are great for building your website …

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7 Best Email Marketing Software Apps for Churches

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

As a church you have special needs when it comes to marketing. It has to have a large reach, have impact, generate a response, be …

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The 7 Best CMS Systems for Your Church Website

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

As a web designer, developer, or church staff member, you have to update your church website. Usually it is a small change, updating an event, …

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6 Free Pastor Tools For Online Goal Tracking

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

After our last post about setting goals for your church website, we felt it was important to highlight a few tools pastors can use to …

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Outreach and Genesis WordPress Theme Review

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Studio Press is a WordPress template company that has over 20 different WordPress themes that are ready for your WordPress site. StudioPress is also one …

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PSD to HTML Services

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

PSD to HTML conversion services are nothing new to the industry, but if you enjoy design more than coding or if you don’t have the …

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5 New Online Event Planning Tools

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Planning church events can be time consuming and overwhelming. Today we bring you 8 tools that will help you manage your next church event, party …

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22 High Quality Video Loops for Churches

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Two weeks ago we shared 21 free video loops for churches. Well, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. This list includes …

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27 Online Tools For New Church Website Designers

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

It can be difficult if you are tossed into updating your church website and have no idea what you are doing. I want to provide …

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A blog you should be reading! (Part 1)

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

I am going to start sharing with you all more from my Google reader. I currently have 67 christian blogs the I subscribe to. These …

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23 Podcasting Tools for Churches

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

A lot of the questions I have received over the last few weeks have been in regards to podcasting. Podcasting is a great tool we …

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17 Images for Memorial Day

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

I wanted to take time today to share wit you some images in honor of memorial day. Often it is easy for me just to …

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16 More Online Apps For Your Church – File Storage and Email

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

This is the last of the online application posts for awhile, I think. Today we look at file storage and email marketing apps. Churches should …

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24 Collaboration, Workgroup, Conference, Presentation & Meeting Tools For Pastors

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Yesterday I shared Top Chart, Diagram, and Whiteboard Tools for Pastors. Today we look at the top applications for collaboration with your team! Managing your …

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Top Chart, Diagram, and Whiteboard Tools for Pastors

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Yesterday we covered online calender and scheduling tools for pastors. Today we move on to online chart, diagram, and whiteboard tools for pastors. Each of …

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Online Tools for Pastors Part 1: Appointments and Calendars

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

This week I am going to share with you online tools that pastors should be using. Today is part one: Appointments and Calendars. I have …

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Spring Images for April Inspiration

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Happy April Fool’s Day! Instead of the typical jokes, fake news articles, or photoshoped images I am happy to share with you some Spring images …

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Bottom 3 Reasons to Use Google Docs

By: Brent Colby|Posted in: Tools & Resources

This week we are reviewing the bottom three reasons to use Google Docs. G-Docs (that is what we call it in the hood) is an online service that allows you to manage documents online.

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39 Apps to Organize Your Church and Life

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

A lot of companies have really embraced the Web 2.o movement and the church can make use of a lot of the applications available online. …

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46 Joomla Resources for Churches

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

It’s all about Joomla today! Joomla is a free, open source Content Management System that is used to power a ton of websites. It has …

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21 Facebook Apps For Your Church

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Yesterday we shared with you 45 Twitter App For Your Church, today we are going to share with you 21 Facebook Apps for Your Church! …

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45 Twitter Apps for Churches

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Today we share with you 45 Twitter apps that churches can benefit from! Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users …

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Top 3 Reasons That Google Docs Will Help Your Ministry

By: Brent Colby|Posted in: Tools & Resources

Here are the top three reasons that Google Docs will help your ministry team get the word out to your church. None of these ideas …

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30 Images to Inspire Your Designs

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

I love photography. I am always looking for new inspiration when it comes to designing websites. Exploring other mediums of art and design give us …

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Find Powerful Images for Your Website

By: Jesse Orndorff|Posted in: Tools & Resources

This is a follow up article to “Make Your Website Better“. I wanted to take a chance over the next few days to dive deeper …

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