Steps to an Evangelizing Homepage Makeover

When we do an evangelizing makeover (as opposed to a complete re-design) for a parish website, it involves not only the homepage, but also the supporting interior pages.  In updating the Our Lady of Angels (OLA) homepage as described in last week’s blog I did three things: plan, implement and work with website support. Plan I am a planner by nature and have found in every circumstance the better prepared I am for the task the easier it will be. Here is what I thought about in the OLA homepage makeover: The first four items are covered in my previous article at https://catholicwebsolutions.com/parish-home-page-makeover/ Implement In implementing the plan, I started with updating the interior pages with two things in mind: reinforcing the welcome message and answering the questions of visitors as clearly and simply as possible. For OLA that meant: Adding a Few New Pages A Parish Staff page with contact information (we will add photos later) A page for Returning Catholics A sacrament overview page Updating Some Pages RCIA New Parishioner Registration Finally Once the interior pages were updated, the content (messages, images and design) for the homepage were ready, I contacted the parish website design company DIOCESAN (https://diocesan.com/diocesan-design/) to arrange for the design update.  The web support at DIOCESAN was excellent and the makeover went very quickly. If you are thinking about doing a homepage makeover, I hope this information is helpful to you. Please share your questions and comments below.