Below are the main features of the e-churches package. Additional custom features can be added upon request at any time.
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Custom Web 2.0 Website Design
e-Churches Sites are designed using web 2.0 design techniques that conform to the W3C standards. These designs are fresh with legible text and user-friendly navigation. The layout is functional and the use of well-coordinated color schemes makes the sites easy on the eye and simply beautiful -
Online Fund-Raising and Donation
This feature allows the users to accept the online donations through Credit/Debit cards using PayPal. -
Podpress-Sermon
Podcasts are the most effective ways of distributing audio media over the Internet by syndication using feeds and downloads to mobile devices and personal computers. -
Prayer Requests
By using this feature, the site users can submit prayer requests online which can be directed automatically to specified email address. This allows the users to submit the prayer requests comfortably at any time. -
Dynamic Events Calendar
This feature allows the administrator to create events that are displayed in a dynamic calendar on the front end. Calendars can give summary of events below the month and will display full information when the date is clicked on. The advanced feature in the calendar will allow users to comment on a calendar entry, very useful and suggestions on events. -
Statistics
Using Google Analytics, the statistics of the site i.e., who is visiting the site when and from where any time can be known at your fingertip including statistics on all individual pages. -
Church Content Management System (CMS)
This is helpful for making the site updates easily. With CMS, designated church staff can make updates and editions to the content on the site, which includes page content, news articles, calendar entries, videos, sermons and many more. With the CMS integration, updating the church site becomes as easy as uploading an email attachment. The CMS can also be multi-admin enabled, meaning different people can be assigned administrative rights for different pages on the site. -
Newsletter
This component allows you to send out mass mails to users who already subscribed to your website. This is a great way to send notifications of the site updates and messages using Getresponse. -
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is "The process of optimizing a website to give better visibility or brand awareness or sales/leads through search engines". SEO includes technical tasks to make it easier for search engines to find and index a site for the appropriate keywords, as well as marketing-focused tasks to make a site more appealing to users. Successful search marketing helps a site gain top positioning for relevant words and phrases. -
RSS Feeds
RSS which stands for Really Simple Syndication is a technology that allows people to subscribe to your blog. Instead of people coming to your site to read your blog post, they use software called an aggregator or feed reader, to make your post come to them. Your blog post comes automatically sent to subscribe computer where they can pick and choose which of your post interests them. -
Forum Discussion Board
This utility enables us to capture a community on the website where visitors and users can post their thoughts and commentaries on the topics we create. Forum is well regulated without incidences of spam. -
Facebook Connect Integration
For select packages only and upon request, the facebook connect integration can be made to the site to unleash the power of social networking. Facebook is a social networking community connecting over 120+ million friends and family members. Integrating Facebook Connect allows any Facebook user visiting the site to log in to your site automatically using their facebook user Ids. Once logged in, users can make comments on blogs and news items and even post comments back to their Facebook profiles. Users can see their facebook friends and invite them to visit/use your site.
