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What to Put on the Church Internet Web Site
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Interest and Attention Getting

  • Interest and attention getting.
    • Interactive with e-mail
    • Chat group response (should be monitored by someone).
    • Ability to pick up where previous session ended.
    • Information in small segments, but linked so information flows and is readily accessible
    • Ability to jump from topic to topic (surfing a site).
  • Use of graphic images.
    • Use limited graphics to support textual content
    • Keep graphics small (thumbnail graphics).
    • Keep graphics at 256 colors as large graphics files take longer to load.
    • In written HTML, specify HEIGHT and WIDTH with all graphic images, so text will appear on the screen while images are beeing loaded.
    • motion
  • Other attention getters.
    Let the user click to hear/see audio and video. Don't force the user to click an ALERT screen that he/she does not have the plug and play on his/her computer, and another ALERT on how to download the plug and play
    • Limit audio and video clips (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
    • music (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
    • sermons -- audio and video (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
    • Offer short clips from sermons will be listened to or viewed more frequently than the whole sermon.
    • thoughts for the day -- written, audio and video (only on demand, user may not have plug-in)
    • combinations of approaches.
    • Guestbooks are going out of style.
    • E-mail newsletters and a e-mail Weekly are in. (Keep it short -- 3 to 5 minutes reading time is max.)

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