Homepage Slider:
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All of our websites come with a homepage graphical slider, as that’s the current convention for modern church websites. This offers prospective guests on any device a chance to see a few messages from your congregation that are eye catching and easy to access.
Each slider can link to any page on your website, or any other website you may wish to promote. We can change these out for you later or update them as your sermon series, events, etc change. Any sort of content is possible here; pictures, graphics, text, video, any html. While it’s recommended that you have no more than 5 or 6 slides at a time, there is no theoretical limit. Also, we can create sliders in widget areas or on any other page of your site; just let us know by email: [HELP DESK EMAIL].
Typically, good slides to include are:
- A “Welcome” slide, with an invitation to join you for worship on Sunday, and possibly a few words about your church.
- A “Message Series” slide, assuming that your church uses series with accompanying graphics.
- A “Service Times” slide.
- A slide that promotes an upcoming event or fellowship opportunity.
To set these slides up, we need at least two things from you: images (or other content such as a youtube URL) and text to go over these images/content. It would also be useful to have the URL or name of the page you want the slide to link to, if you want it to link to something.
What sort of images should you use? We can use images similar to the ones you saw on the Template sites, but the best pictures often come from someone in your church. Pictures of your congregation enjoying themselves can be very attractive to prospective guests, and are more likely than stock photos to be effective in reaching younger generations. Slides that show your people are almost always more effective than slides that only show your building. If you want to use a slide of your building, try to find a picture that has people in the foreground.