January 2025 - January is the right time to make your church website simpler, fresher and easier to own. Rather than starting with a redesign wish list, start with the journeys people need most: visiting on Sunday, asking for help, giving, joining a group and finding safeguarding information.
Start with the visitor journey
A useful church website answers the anxious questions first. Someone new should not need to understand your structure before they can work out where to go, what to expect and who to contact.
- Service details: Put times, location, parking, accessibility and children information together on one clear page.
- Newcomer next step: Offer one friendly action, such as planning a visit, sending a message or joining a newcomers lunch.
- Mobile-first checks: Read the homepage on a phone and remove anything that slows down the first decision.
Make ownership realistic
The best plan is one your team can keep current. Pick a light rhythm for reviewing key pages and make sure each owner knows what good looks like.
- Review the homepage, contact page and service times every month.
- Check giving, safeguarding and events every quarter.
- Retire old seasonal pages before they make the site feel neglected.
A church website does not need to say everything at once. It needs to make the next faithful step obvious.
Use this month well
Use January to reduce clutter, agree page owners and make the first-screen experience feel current. That small discipline gives the rest of the year a stronger digital foundation.
Ask Intent to review your church website if you want a clearer structure, cleaner templates, or a calmer route from first visit to real connection.
