Can our church staff update the site ourselves after it's built?

Yes. Every site is built so your team can make basic updates — new events, service time changes, announcements — without calling anyone. We'll walk you through it and make sure whoever's handling updates feels comfortable before we step back.

We mostly grow through word of mouth. Why would we spend money on a website?

Because the first thing someone does after a friend invites them to church is look you up online. If they can't find your service times in ten seconds, that personal invitation loses a lot of its weight. The site backs up the relationship.

Our budget is tight — is $300 really enough for something decent?

For a clean, mobile-friendly site with your core information? Yes. You don't need thirty pages. You need the right five pages done well. If your needs grow later, the site can grow with them.

What if we already have a Facebook page that's pretty active?

A Facebook page is great for engagement with people who already follow you. But Facebook doesn't show up well in Google searches, you can't control the layout, and visitors have to have an account to see some content. A website is the thing you own and control. Facebook is a supplement, not a substitute.

Do you build sites on WordPress?

We can, but it depends on what your church needs. Sometimes WordPress is the right fit — especially if you want full control over content. Other times a simpler platform makes more sense for a church that just needs the basics done right. We'll recommend what actually fits your situation.

Web Design · Athens, TX

Church Web Design in Athens That People Won't Click Away From

You've probably already tried a few things. Maybe someone on the worship team set up a free Wix site one Saturday. Maybe you paid a guy who "does websites" and got something that sort of works — on a desktop, in Chrome, if you squint. Or maybe you've just been leaning on your Facebook page and hoping for the best. None of that worked the way you needed it to, and you know it.

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Why Church Websites Go Wrong (It's Not Your Fault, Mostly)

Churches run into a specific trap with websites. You're not selling anything, so the urgency to get it right never hits the same way it does for a business. The site becomes an afterthought — something you update when someone remembers, styled by whoever had a Canva account last.

And the result? A visitor drives past your building near the Henderson County Courthouse, gets curious, pulls out their phone, and lands on a page that takes nine seconds to load and still lists your 2022 Easter service. They don't stick around. They just try the next church down the road. That's not a commentary on your ministry. It's a commentary on your website.

The frustrating part is that your church probably has a lot to offer — active ministries, community programs, real people doing real work in Athens. But none of that matters online if the site buries it under cluttered menus and broken links. A good church website isn't complicated. It just needs to do a few things well and stay out of the way.

What a Church Website Actually Needs to Do

Skip the bells and whistles. A church site in Athens needs to answer the questions people are actually asking when they visit. That's it.

1. Service times and location — right up front, no hunting. A Google Maps embed so someone driving through town off Highway 175 can get there without calling the office.

2. What you believe and who you are. New visitors want to get a feel for your church before they walk in the door. A short, honest about page and a rundown of your ministries does more than a flashy video intro ever will.

3. An event calendar that's current. If your site still shows last month's potluck, people assume nothing's happening. Keeping this updated takes five minutes a week. That's a better return on effort than almost anything else you could do.

4. A way to connect before showing up. Prayer request forms. Volunteer sign-ups. A simple contact page. Some folks in Henderson County aren't ready to walk through your doors yet, but they'll fill out a form at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday.

5. Mobile-friendly design that loads fast. Not everyone sitting in Geronimo Park on a Saturday has great signal. Your site should still work on a slow connection.

What This Costs and How Long It Takes

A simple church site — your main pages, service info, a contact form, mobile-friendly — starts at $300. That's for a clean 3-5 page site, and it can be done in a few days. Not months. Days.

If your church has a bigger presence — multiple ministries, a media library, event registration, maybe a blog for sermons — a full site with 10+ pages starts at $1,500 and takes about a week. Still not the drawn-out saga you might be expecting.

And if you want people in Athens and the surrounding area to actually find you on Google without relying on the sign out front? A website plus SEO package starts at $3,500, delivered in 1-2 weeks. After that, hosting and maintenance to keep things running starts at $50 a month. You shouldn't have to think about plugin updates and security patches. That's our job.

We're a small web design company out of Tyler that works across East Texas. You'll talk to the person building your site — not a sales rep who hands you off to a stranger.