Josh Young

Well, now that we’re somewhat settled in at our new house, things have started to move in life again. We’ve had some discussion on the new church website this morning, and it looks like we’re getting close to the release date. Hopefully we will be able to iron everything out in the next couple of weeks and get it up before the end of September.

One of the big things that we still have left to do is get some pictures. The meat of the site is about finished, but it’s going to look dead without pictures on it. We really want to have pictures of the actual people that go to our church instead of plastering our site with a bunch of meaningless stock photos.

We’re planning on putting a lot of other items up on the site once we get it released as well. I’m hoping to get some welcome and promo videos up to give yet another view inside the life of the church. We have an invite that can be sent to anyone via e-mail, all of our sermons with full transcripts, audio, and slides will be available, and lots of other good stuff.

I don’t think we’re going to push the whole “Web 2.0″ or community aspect on the site as of right now, but we do want to get things on the site that will make people come back weekly or even daily. We’ll have our weekly newsletters available online, and Mike’s blog is linked to, so hopefully that will push more traffic as well. Other than getting regular content on the site, any other suggestions for making this successful?