Websites for churches.
A church website is read mostly by one kind of visitor: someone who has never been inside and is deciding whether to come on Sunday. We build church websites in Long Beach around that person. Service times on the first screen, where to park, what to expect, and who to email.
Business is $3,500 to build plus $175/mo for care, live in 3–4 weeks. Call or text (562) 246-9792, or book the free call and bring whatever you have.
What we built.
Grace First Presbyterian's redesign is in progress now. The brief is calm and clear: service times where a newcomer sees them first, an events calendar that reads on a phone, and a first-visit page that answers the questions people are shy about asking.
A first-visit page answers things like what to wear, where the kids go during the service and how long it runs. Those answers are what turn a Google search on Saturday night into a visit on Sunday.
What a church website has to do.
Service times that match Google to the minute
The times on the site and the times on your Google Business Profile have to agree, or a visitor shows up to a locked door. We put the times on the first screen and in the structured data, and the care plan includes the edit when they change.
Events people can read without downloading a bulletin
A PDF bulletin is invisible to search and painful on a phone. Events go on the page as text, one per line, with the date, the time and the room, so a member can check Thursday night from the couch.
Giving and sermons through the services you already use
We don't process donations ourselves. The site links or embeds the giving platform you already have, and the sermon archive can point at your YouTube or podcast feed. That embed or link is the one integration included in Launch; more come from the add-on menu.
Readable for members in their seventies
Congregations skew older than the average website audience. We build to WCAG 2.1 AA: larger type, real contrast, pages that work with a keyboard and a screen reader, and no accessibility overlay widget pretending to do that work.
THE PLAN THAT FITS
A church usually needs more than three pages: home, plan a visit, service times, events, ministries and giving. That is Business, up to six pages with content your office can edit, live in 3–4 weeks. A small congregation with one service and no events calendar fits Launch.
QUESTIONS CHURCHES ASK US
How much does a church website cost?
$3,500 for a Business site with up to six pages your office can edit, plus $175/month for hosting, monitoring and a content edit each month. A three-page Launch site is $1,500. The scope is written down and approved before any deposit, and the full list is on the pricing page.
Can our office or volunteers update events and announcements?
On Business, yes. The pages are built with content you can edit, so a new event or a changed service time is yours to post. On every plan, care also includes one content edit a month from us, up to 30 minutes, for the weeks nobody in the office has time.
Can the site take online giving?
Yes, through the giving platform you already use. The site links to it or embeds it, and the donation itself runs on their system, under their fees and their receipts, which is how it should be. That link or embed counts as the one integration included in Launch; Business includes up to three.
Will older members be able to read and use the site?
Yes. Every site we build meets WCAG 2.1 AA: text that scales, contrast that passes, pages that work with a keyboard and a screen reader. We don't install accessibility overlay widgets, which California courts have not accepted as a fix. The details are on the California questions page.
OTHER KINDS OF BUSINESS WE BUILD FOR
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