There are dozens and dozens of ways your church can get a presence on the World Wide Web. Why is WebMedley the best answer for your online ministry?
Here's our list of reasons. Click on any one for more details.
- Ease of use
- Free software, free upgrades, and unlimited licensing
- Free professional content
- Configured for multiple users
- Expandibility
- Customer support
- Ongoing education and ideas
The number one reason most churches do not have an active Internet ministry is because no one at the church feels they have the skills or time necessary to develop and maintain a Web site. The term "HTML" sounds foreign at best and downright intimidating at worst. WebMedley seeks to alleviate this stumbling block by providing an easy-to-use interface that mimics the buttons and functions you are accustomed to using every day in every other piece of software you might use. The WebMedley interface resembles and functions like a standard word processor. So, any volunteers who can type a letter on the computer or send an email already have all the basic skills they need to create and maintain great looking Web pages.
The WebMedley toolbar uses buttons and interfaces that your volunteers already know. Extensive training and a steep learning curve are no longer issues.
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"We are really pleased with WebMedley so far. We had a site up and running on the web within 2 hours of working on it. Our members, who have already visited the page, are impressed with the quality. Thanks for your help."
- Becky Bunke
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
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Most of the Internet/HTML creation software available on the market today is for a single installation. You must buy additional copies if you want it available on more than one computer. With price tags neighboring $100 apiece, this can quickly become an expensive proposition. In addition, upgrades to the software must be purchased with each new release if you want access to the newest and nicest features.
With WebMedley, there is no software to buy, upgrades are free for life, and you have unlimited licensing to provide WebMedley to as many volunteers as you want, allowing them to use their own computers out of their own homes.
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WebMedley allows you to subscribe to professional content from many different ministry organizations about world
events, ministry opportunities, and ongoing efforts of local and global ministries that your church may already support.
It's like having an online magazine subscription for visitors to your site, guaranteeing a Web page that always has fresh information and insight with no effort on your part.
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Many church Web Sites are abandoned after 3-6 months. The reason, in many cases, is that the church put all of its Internet eggs in one basket.
They typically find alone volunteer who knows something about building/maintaining Web sites. Sometimes it's a web professional, sometimes it's a younger person who is a "computer wiz", but also have many other responsibilities with studies and other activities. Whatever the case, the genuine exuberance that the volunteer had initially is typically extinguished in the weeks and months to follow. Or perhaps they move, or graduate from school and can no longer help. Once this happens, the church is left with no one who knows what to do and the Web site quickly stagnates until "Current Events" are all from 2001 and you are praying no one visits your Web site because it is so out of date.
WebMedley seeks to move churches away from this paradigm by using an online system that allows multiple volunteers to be involved with small pieces of the Web site (and without being able to accidentally disrupt or change other parts). To ask a volunteer to maintain a single Web page is much less intimidating than asking them to take on the whole site.
With your basic subscription, you have the ability to involve as many volunteers as youwish in your Internet ministry- there is no limit to how many can work on the site and each can do it out of the comfort of his or her own home on his or her own time schedule.
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As your comfort level with and understanding of Internet ministry increases, you will want to incorporate more and more features and resources in your site. WebMedley offers many additional features such as audio/video streaming, message boards, email/newsletter publishing systems, custom header and site design, and much more, for your use as your Web ministry grows.It's all only a phone call or an email away.
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We realize that even if creating and managing your Web site is easy, you may still need ideas of how to make your site more effective, or how to add a special feature, or how to make your pages more user friendly, etc. WebMedley is not just about making things easier for you technologically; it's also about helping you make your online ministry effective.
Our team of tech support specialists is truly concerned not only about helping answer your questions, but also about helping you make your site truly minister to people who visit it. Many of our staff have been involved in professional ministry positions themselves and all of them have a solid understanding of online ministry and a real passion for helping your ministry soar.
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Even the best tool has no value if you don't know how to use it well. WebMedley seeks to give you ongoing inspiration with regular Hints and Tips emails, an online help system, message boards for sharing ideas, and personal site consultation available through our support staff. We want you to be successful.
"Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your new newsletter. It has so many helpful ideas and suggestions. WebMedley is doing an awesome job. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
- Linda Kretschmaier
Plymouth Congregational Church
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