Achieve your cities unique goals with a semi-custom WordPress website with support from the Field Support Center. All the features your city website requires with the support you need to be successful.
The Field Support Center will work with you to design a website that is unique to your city but still within the brand guidelines of the Navigators. Our experienced web designers are skilled in bringing together modern design/user experience with our tried and true brand standards.
Built in blogging capabilities to engage your city in meaningful conversation and build community online. Social sharing functionality makes posting your content to social media and reaching new audiences easy.
From mobile devices, tablets, and desktops your website will look great and provide a great user experience across devices. With more than 50% of web traffic coming from mobile devices this is more important than ever before.
It's important to know how users are finding your site and how they are using it. Each website has analytics built in to provide you with demographic information, traffic insights, and show you what content is most popular with your audience.
The Field Support Center handles hosting, security updates, domain renewals, and more so you can just focus on creating content to connect with your audience.
Each site we build is optimized for search engine results and on site search. We make it easy for those in your City and beyond to find your website.
After working with a number of Missions, Cities, and Networks we know what tools your city needs to engage users online. From forms, blogs, articles, events, and maps we the tools you need to reach your audience and build community online.
The Field Support Center can help develop a content strategy for your website so you know how often you need to post and what types of content will resonate with your audience. The FSC will also post content for you and give you blog posts from other cities, missions and networks that may be relevant to your website - just let us know what and when to post and we do the rest.
We build our websites on WordPress and use a drag and drop interface called Elementor to make managing content and building new pages a breeze. Not only do you have a team of trained users within the FSC standing by to serve you but we also provide training so you can make changes yourself in the easy to use interface.
It has never been easier to create pages and websites on
WordPress for your ministry
Websites serve not only as a front door to welcoming new people to your ministry; they can also serve staff by providing relevant information, training tools, and resources. Your own website gives you a place where you can prioritize your own ministry goals and create personalized content to your mission, city, or networks unique audience.
Three Big Advantages:
The right technology stack: Websites are complicated. There are many different tools available to make building websites easy and inexpensive – but like when buying a car its important to know what you want your site to do for you before settling on a website platform. You may end up with a Honda Civic when you really need a Ford F-150 to accomplish your ministry goals. The Field Support Center has built a platform of tools around the common goals and objectives of each mission, city, and network so you can feel confident the platform can meet your needs and continue to grow and adapt along with your ministry.
Ongoing Maintenance: When engaging outside vendors (agency’s, friends, ministry partners) you may be able to get a great deal on a new website – Many people love the work of the Navigators and are willing to give us discount pricing. However, the day you launch your website is just the beginning. Websites are not static. Ongoing maintenance, content changes/updates, security maintenance, and bugs/enhancements are often more costly than the initial development of a website. Worse yet, many small vendors cannot provide the level of support needed and you end up with a website that can’t easily be updated or changed. The Field Support Center has a team of professionals ready and able to manage these ongoing tasks so you can be sure your website is always up to date, secure, and changes can be done quickly and efficiently.
Cost savings: When building a website there are always additional hidden costs for plugins, security features, domain names, etc. The Field Support Center has access to discounted hosting and domain names so we get the best pricing available. The FSC also provides access to a custom suite of WordPress plugins at no additional cost. The suite of plugins are ones we identified to be helpful across each mission, city, and network so we are sure they will be helpful for your unique use case.
Website hosting costs $500 dollars annually and provides daily backups, site updates, and a development environment. Each domain name is $12 per domain each year.
We start with a strategy meeting to get an idea of what your website needs to do for you and your users. We identify your target audiences, feature requests, and design preferences. We will then work together to create an Information Architecture that will meet your content needs. From there, we begin building the website as you provide the content.
It is the city team’s responsibility to make sure the content on the website is always current. To ensure this happens, it is important to have at least one person actively checking the website to make sure all content is up to date. If anything on the website needs changed, it is their responsibility to either update the website or let the MarCom team know so that they can make the necessary changes.
Below is our estimated project times. These times are subject to change based on workload and how long it takes to gather project information. We look forward to serving you!
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