Comments on: The Most Important Page On Your Church Website: The Home Page, Part 1 http://churchcommunicationspro.com/2006/11/20/the-all-important-church-website-home-page-part-1/ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:53:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Cory Miller http://churchcommunicationspro.com/2006/11/20/the-all-important-church-website-home-page-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Cory Miller Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:01:52 +0000 http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/2006/11/20/the-all-important-church-website-home-page-part-1/#comment-174 Tom, understand your perspective (I just left my late 20s) ... but I've served on two church staffs and this has been a recurring and hard issue to deal with. On my church site now, it's a stock photo. There are problems inherent with using a "real" family ... but I tried to choose one who looked "normal." It's a question we all struggle with ... Tom, understand your perspective (I just left my late 20s) … but I’ve served on two church staffs and this has been a recurring and hard issue to deal with. On my church site now, it’s a stock photo. There are problems inherent with using a “real” family … but I tried to choose one who looked “normal.”

It’s a question we all struggle with …

]]> By: Tom http://churchcommunicationspro.com/2006/11/20/the-all-important-church-website-home-page-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Tom Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:47:59 +0000 http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/2006/11/20/the-all-important-church-website-home-page-part-1/#comment-173 On stock photography, I'm in my late 20's and am very cynical about presentation, etc. (So those are my presuppositions that shape how I think.) If I see stock photography on a church website, I run the other way. I'd rather see a poorly designed site using frames and a flash intro than see happy, shiny models on the home page of a church website. When I see models, I immediately revert to high school mode and think "this must be a church for only cool, beautiful people." On stock photography, I’m in my late 20’s and am very cynical about presentation, etc. (So those are my presuppositions that shape how I think.) If I see stock photography on a church website, I run the other way. I’d rather see a poorly designed site using frames and a flash intro than see happy, shiny models on the home page of a church website.

When I see models, I immediately revert to high school mode and think “this must be a church for only cool, beautiful people.”

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