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From Word to Web with WordPress

A young woman of is drawing sitting on a park bench drawing websites in the sky

WordPress is today, and will likely be for years to come, the go-to way to turn words and ideas into websites. Here’s an overview of this WordPress site.

First Live Help Session – Sign Up Now

Two hands are stretching out around a heart, symbolising the theme of helping hands

Hooray! There’s now both a website for Church Free Web and also a private Facebook group, to be a social hub and a place to host live help sessions. You should be part of both.

We Need To Talk About Email

Friendly creatures are throwing around email messages

I’m going to be provocative and opinionated about email, because I think every church that can get Microsoft or/and Google nonprofit services really ought to to do so.

Domain Names

Domain names are at the core of making the Internet usable. Registering a domain name is often the start of building your digital resources.

Hosting

A friendly looking computer server sits in the English countryside

Web hosts are the cloud-based computers that serve up websites, web pages and web apps. Here’s the one I used for Church Free Web…

Are You The Product?

Six drink cans have pictures of people, illustrating the question, are you the customer or the product?

Are you the product? If you’re not paying for a product or service in money, you should assume you’re being turned into income some other way. What about “free for non-profit” digital services?

Digital resources are just as real as every other kind of resource that’s part of your church or organisation. Often they have been built by different individuals over time, and from time to time you need to take stock. Many church buildings have a quinquennial inspection to see what needs urgent attention, what ought to … Read more