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Launch Your Church Website with WordPress and iThemes Builder

Cory Miller — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:52:08 +0000

City Church is the only child theme you need for building church themed websites. By tapping into the new functionality of Builder and WordPress 3.2, you can easily upload and organize sermons and staff information which City Church displays beautifully. Be sure to check out the demo.

What makes City Church easy to use? The Church Builder Block. This plugin coupled with City Church allows you to upload and display the sermon and staff information content, including featured images and audio files, without having to style or organize the page. Check out the screen shots below:

If you are already a Builder customer, City Church and the Church Builder Block are ready for download in your members area. If you do not have Builder, you can learn more about it here.

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The Ultimate Church Web Design WordPress Theme: iThemes Builder

Cory Miller — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:42:38 +0000

We’re very excited as our blockbuster theme — iThemes Builder — turns one-year-old this month. That’s right, last December we launched Builder to much buzz in our community and in WordPress.

To celebrate we’re doing a couple of things ….

iThemes Builder Birthday Blowout — starting next week, we’ll be doing a special blowout sale until Dec. 31, 2010 on Builder. (Details to come!)
Birthday Bash — we’re celebrating Builder’s birthday in style on Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 11 a.m. Central Time on iThemesTV … you’ll want to tune in as we giveaway some shirts and other goodies. We’re also releasing another child theme that day so you won’t want to miss the show! http://iThemes.tv

Look for some videos soon in this post as well as an announcement about the blowout sale next week.

In the meantime, we would love to know how iThemes Builder has helped you build great WP websites quickly.

Please leave a comment below about how you’ve used Builder, what you’ve been able to do and of course well wishes!

As you know we’re very proud of iThemes Builder and look forward to many more feature innovations and Builder themes!

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WordPress Theme Bootcamp in Dallas Jan. 29-30

Cory Miller — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:38:28 +0000

James and I, along with the team at iThemes, will be hosting a two-day workshop in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 29-30 to share the ins and outs of about building websites with WordPress.

We’re calling it our iThemes WordPress Theme Bootcamp.

This is a great opportunity for those of you looking to build your church’s website in WordPress!

You can get signup details here …. but on Tuesday, we’re doing a free online workshop to give some highlights of the information we’ll share at the workshop.

Signup for the free preview webinar here …. and get registration details for the Dallas WordPress Theme Bootcamp here.

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Free Workshop: Web Design with WordPress

Cory Miller — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:55:06 +0000

Join me, Cory Miller, founder of WebDesign.com and iThemes.com, and WordPress developer Adam White as we talk about using WordPress to design custom websites for clients.

This webinar is a perfect introduction for those interested in learning more about WordPress web design or who want to build a freelance business.

Title: Web Design with WordPress
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/491948074

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

P.S. — We’ll be launching WebDesign.com University soon … you’ll want to signup to be the first to learn about great web design training opportunities! Learn more & sign up here.

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A Great Tool for Your Church and the iPhone.

James Dalman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:29:33 +0000

I got an e-mail from the crew at AppChurch.com the other day about their new app for the iPhone.

While WordPress has an iPhone plug-in for websites that use WP as a CMS platform, I think AppChurch would be an awesome tool if your church uses another CMS system. Both Mars Hills and LifeChurch.tv have created and used this type of technology (I love both) with great success and I really feel it would be beneficial for you to check out for your church as well. The AppChurch is a free download from the iTunes store though you do have to pay a monthly fee if you want your church logo, service times, map, events, and sermons to be included for your visitors to see … but at $7 per month for one website, I think this is a small investment if people visit your church because of it.

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6 Ways to Help Your Church Website Rank Better in Google

Cory Miller — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:39:20 +0000

Check out Chris Boyd’s article on Ministry Marketing Coach on 6 Ways to Organize Your Ministry or Church Web Site to Boost Your Rankings.

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4 Keys to Effective Church Websites: Free Webinar

James Dalman — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:52:43 +0000

WebDesign.com co-founders Cory Miller and James Dalman hosted a special webinar titled 4 Keys to Effective Church Websites on Oct. 1.

In this webinar, you’ll learn the essentials of highly effective church websites with two experienced church marketing professionals.

Watch the Church Website Webinar here

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Church Web Design, WordPress and New Services

Cory Miller — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:15:43 +0000

Over two and a half years ago, I wrote a series called Using WordPress for Church Websites. At the time, I was the communications director at a large Southern Baptist church in Oklahoma City and sought an affordable way to get an attractive website for our church.

You can read the whole series here ….

WordPress was the answer I found … it was easy to use and had numerous benefits – like helping the church get found online via Google and other search engines.

And after all this time, WordPress and one of our deigns is still powering the QSBC website today!

But that experience propelled me into freelance web design for clients all over the world, then eventually our first business, iThemes, where we provide high-quality templates for WordPress. (We’ve even been mentioned in the WordPress for Dummies book!)

It’s been a wild ride from that first website and the ChurchCommunicationsPro.com blog, which is ranked in the Top 100 Church blogs.

Now …. fast forward almost two years later, we’ve launched WebDesign.com to provide website design services and consulting.

Because of our team’s experience and knowledge of church marketing and church web design, we’re offering a special package designed especially for churches and ministries.

You can read about the Church Web Design package details here.

If your church or ministry is looking for a great web design or redesign solution, we’d love to talk with you about your site.

This package is designed to get you an affordable yet attractive website … with some special features like podcasting and an event calendar — both popular requests we’ve gotten from our church clients.

You can visit our contact form and email us, or call us toll-free at 888-743-0274!

In the meantime, thanks for following CCP!

P.S. — If you’ve been wanting to start a blog for your ministry, check out our Blog Design package too. It’s a great way to get started with the right design and tools to give you maximum impact!

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iThemes Now Offers Premium Themes for Movable Type

James Dalman — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:57:59 +0000

A couple months ago, iThemes started a great conversation with Anil Dash, a Vice President from Six Apart, about developing premium blog themes for Movable Type – one of the largest Open Source blogging platforms available.

Today we announce our new Movable Type Premium Theme Store from iThemes.

There are three MT themes available; Business Blogger which is FREE THEME DOWNLOAD, Blogging Success (based off of our WordPress version), and soon to arrive Essence. This is an exciting time for us and we are really pumped about this new partnership with Six Apart!

Please check out our Movable Type Theme Store or visit iThemes for our WP Premium Themes.

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Relaunching Church Communications Pro

James Dalman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:07:37 +0000

Hey CCP Readers! I know it has been quite a while since I have been active here and I offer my apologies!

Since I’ve joined the iThemes team, we have been blasting out a bunch of new projects which has kept us all pretty swamped. One of the major products we released this morning is a new WordPress theme called Flexx Theme. It is off the wall, and I believe for churches (or anyone else for that matters) it is going to absolutely change the playing field when it comes to church blogs or church websites.

Here’s just a few of the goodies that Flexx Theme is capable of doing:

Offering 1,056 layouts variations!
Click of the button layout and styling options.
Easy to upload backgrounds and headers without FTP.
No coding experience needed or required to use!
Rotating and Fading Image Headers.
Automatically Search Engine Optimized.
Built in Color Picker for Background Colors
and more things you can shake a stick at!

I will also be working on FLEXX THEME: CHURCH which will be released at ChurchTheme.com in the next week or so. Either way you won’t want to miss getting it but if you do want the original Flexx Theme then get it now because the price will go up next week!

All this to say what ties into my headline.

We are going to load the Flexx Theme for Church Communications Pro to show it off and so you can see how it works. So please excuse the mess as we start relaunching CCP and give it one new sweet look!

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