More Frequently Asked Questions? - ChurchWebSiteBuilder.net

Q: Do we need to have internet access at our church in order to have a website through ChurchWebsiteBuilder?
A: No. This is one of the most common myths about our service. Your website can be built and edited from any online computer, anywhere. If you are a small rural church without internet connection, no problem. You can build and edit your website from home, or anywhere that has internet connectivity. You can even be on vacation and update your website or publish an article while you are out of town. You are not strapped to one computer or one location.

Q: What do we use for our domain name?
A: You can use any domain name you desire as long as it is available. If you don't already have a domain name, you might want to search for and register a domain name ahead of time. However, we can do this for you and secure your domain name for FREE! Domain names can have a variety of extensions such as .com .net .org .us .info and .tv just to name a few. For example, if your church name is a common name, it may be taken as a .com domain name, but it still might be available as a .net or a .org name. Obtaining a domain name is the first step in building your church website and we can do it for you at no charge as part of our website package, just ask us.

Q: What if I don't have someone on my staff or in my congregation who can upate the website regularly and learn more features as they come along?
A: We are willing to train anyone for you, however if you feel that you need more assistance in editing and updating, let your representative know and they can work out a scheduled editing plan to help you. We handle each church on an individual case-by-case basis. Some churches need a little help for awhile, some need none at all, they take it and run with it. Our online tutorials and 24-hour online support is the backbone of this website project and we want to help you succeed.

Q: Is there a way for people to make our church website, the homepage on their computer?
A: Yes there is, and we encourage that. We will provide you with an easy icon link that you can place on various pages of your website that will enable users to immediately make your new church website, their home page. No complicated process is involved at all. It's very easy and automatic.

Q: Will people on a dial-up internet connection be able to access our new church website?
A: Yes they will. This fact is a very important difference between ChurchWebsiteBuilder and other vendors who insist upon selling you a "flash" style site or "flash" intro to your site. Dial-up connections are much slower than high-speed broadband internet connections. Dial-up users have limited bandwidth speed, therefore they cannot open big photo files, video files, or flash files. Our software is largely text-based, making it easy for dial-up customers to open and navigate as well. We also encourage our customers to keep their photo files at a reasonable size to enable dial-up customers to view them easily. Dial-up customers should also have no problem accessing and listening to audio files on your new church website from ChurchWebsiteBuilder.net

Q: If my church builds a new website through ChurchWebsiteBuilder.net how can we promote our site to the public and get noticed?
A: There are several ways. First of all, after announcing the new website to your current congregation, you will want to put your new website address (domain name) on every communication correspondence that you do. Church bulletin, letterhead, business cards, newspaper column, church sign, etc. Encourage other website owners (businesses in your congregation) to link to your church website. Secondly, be sure that your parent church affiliation knows that you now have a website and give them the domain address so that they can link to you. Thirdly, promote your website and your church through our Church Directory Search Engine at www.uschurchsearch.net Absolutely FREE when you purchase a website from us at ChurchWebsiteBuilder.net. Non-customer churches must pay an annual fee to have their church promoted. Your FREE Church Information Page on uschurchsearch.net will be seen locally as well as nationwide by people who are relocating, vacationing, or simply searching for a new church home. Finally, over a period of time, your website will secure results in the major search engines due to the meta-tags and keywords that we build into the website for you, and due to the links from other websites that feed to your website.

Q: Our church already has a website that we are happy with, but we would like to offer live and archive streaming of our worship services to the public. Can we still obtain that service through you?
A: Yes! We would still be happy to serve your live streaming or sermon archiving needs. Just provide us with your contact information, your current church website URL address and indicate whether you are interested in audio streaming/archiving or video streaming/archiving. We can set you up with streaming and archiving capabilities that you should be able to access through your current church website.
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