Qoutes

Questions you might be asked when proposing a website

( Good News Web Designers Association

http://gnwda.org/

Once you've been asked to create a website and you sit down with the person or committee for whom you'll be working, be prepared to answer the following common questions.

Q: "Why should our church or organization bother with the building and upkeep of a website? We've gotten along fine without one so far!"

A: No ministry that relies on communication should be left in the dust as the world starts relying on the Internet more and more. It's the ultimate communications tool. It's a handy resource that can make available just about everything that the church or organization wants to offer the public, and over-all this can be accomplished much more cheaply than postal mailings and other methods of communication.

The website should become a serious tool that people rely on over and over again in large numbers. Otherwise, putting the church or organization on the Web will be just a temporary fad. This year: "Gee, isn't this nice; we're in Cyberspace!" A couple of years later: "What's the point of being in Cyberspace? I can't see that it's made any difference from the way we used to do things." How much better it is to end up saying: "How did we ever get along without this tool?!"

Q: "Why would people want to come to our website?"

A: It's absolutely imperative for the website to be interactive, so that visitors will find it both entertaining and useful, and so they'll want to return to the site again and again. The entertainment value must be combined with the practical reasons for having a website, or it won't be used much. The computer screen is like a TV screen: People expect it to be fun, entertaining and colorful, with good eye-appeal. But because it's more than a TV, people expect it to be something they can control rather than just stare at. They want to DO something with it. They want to find what they're seeking in a few easy steps....