Thriving Church
Posted on January 29, 2009
Thriving Church Consulting is Tom Bandy’s church growth and transformation consulting service. Because of his constant travel and preference for direct communication, ThrivingChurch.com needed to be very hands-off, primarily functioning as a reference library of useful tools, secondarily as promotion for his services.
Design
Tom loves bold, and has a small set of images which symbolically communicate his vision. He works in Word and PowerPoint most often, and needed to easily translate his work to the web. With some leading suggestions from Tom, I created a design which clearly segregates the services offerings from the resource archives. Because these archives would be so extensive, search was made prominent. The homepage features an excerpt of the most recently added content. Otherwise, I kept the design lightweight to give the volumes of text and images center stage.
Features
ThrivingChurch.com is rife with specialized coding and plugins, but they all work in the background to keep maintainence as simple as possible. The site is built on WordPress, especially for its ability to paste from Word and upload media easily. Search is enhanced, and a simple contact form lets Tom keep his communication to email. It’s search-engine optimized to help seekers find relevant articles. I also set up Google Analytics to automatically email Tom useful statistics monthly. Everything works together to give Tom the hands-off site he needs while maximizing accessibility for visitors to his volumes of resources.