Church Website: Effective?

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Sir Knight:
I maintain our parish website. …-- it’s a bit frustrating to see it used so little.
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I’ve been thinking about this. This is also a problem with ours – although I wouldn’t want too many people to visit it as it is now because it’s pitiful. [Note to self: Approach Father with a suggestion…]

Anyway, SK, do you think it’s because your site isn’t advertised or mentioned? Is it prominently listed in the bulletin? Do articles in the bulletin end with, “For more information visit the parish Web site.”? Our Web site is barely mentioned – more of a footnote once in the masthead of the bulletin, and it is never mentioned otherwise.

I’ve seen some parish sites that are fabulous – lots of resources, calendars galore, great graphics, impeccable navigation – really useful and up-to-date stuff. Maybe we Web designers could band together and create some sort of guidelines or suggestions for parishes. After all, I LIVE on the Internet, and most people I am in contact with on a daily basis do, too. John Paul II even endorsed the Internet, seeing it as a new and valuable way to evangelize.

And besides, we could include orthodox links on the Links page, making sure that visitors have ready access to good and faithful Catholic resources!

'thann
 
My vote for best parish website is this one;

scborromeo.org/index2.htm

That is not my parish but I stumbled across it. The “I’m Glad You Asked” brochure is very handy.

In Christ
Javier
 
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thann:
… Anyway, SK, do you think it’s because your site isn’t advertised or mentioned? Is it prominently listed in the bulletin? Do articles in the bulletin end with, “For more information visit the parish Web site.”? Our Web site is barely mentioned – more of a footnote once in the masthead of the bulletin, and it is never mentioned otherwise …
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I really don’t know what the problem is. The URL is listed at the top of the Sunday bulletin just below the telephone number. Yet the other day I was talking to a woman who said that her family was out of town this past week-end and she had to go pick up a bulletin to see what was happening during the week. I suggested that she merely download a copy of the bulletin off the website (I have all of the bulletins from the past 2+ years on the website in PDF format ready for download) and she said to me: “Oh, we have a website? I didn’t know that. It’s the first that I’m hearing of it.”

That just took all the wind out of my sails because the website has been around for a couple of years now.

We have over two dozen organizations in the parish who are very active but when I apporached them and offered to provide information about who they are and what they do on the church website, NONE OF THEM ever got back to me and I feel awkward going back to them multiple times about this.

The deacon gives me new stuff to put in about once a month but it’s usually an article about something.

So I don’t know what the problem is.
 
Sadly absent, I believe a presence for the basic cost of about $10 a month and a few hours would be well worth the investment. I can’t remember the site, but I know there is one out there that tries to list prishes with basic information like location, number, Mass schedule. Thanks and God Bless.
 
Sir Knight:
That just took all the wind out of my sails because the website has been around for a couple of years now. … So I don’t know what the problem is.
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The problem is that for most people, the Internet is still not the first place to instinctively look for information. I don’t know if it ever will be for local parish information.
 
very effective!! Not just the website but also TV stations like EWTN.

These websites helped me a lot in knowing the Important teaching of the catholic church that is not taught in my parish here in my country.
I lived as a catholic for 22 years and only when Pope John Paul II died that i had appreciated this religion, my religion, because of EWTN and websites of our Catholic Church…
 
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