If you are a small church in need of locating a content management system (CMS) designed specifically for churches then you have come to the right place.  It is our mission to provide solid and reliable reviews of christian website design companies that provide affordable church website CMS products for small churches just like you.  Our team is made up of people who are not only web designers but have served in their local churches so we know the needs of a small church website because we have been there and done that.  Our goal is to help small churches be able to make wise decisions on which church website cms is going to be best for them.  Churches like you.

How Does Your Rating System Work?

Glad you asked.  Now our system is a bit unorthodox as there are certain criteria we have created that some church website cms companies would think is unfair.  But it is in our opinion that the prices these companies are charging are completely unfair to the small church website market out there so I guess we’re even.

I’m sure your curiosity is peaked by now with all of this drama going on so let’s get to it:

1. PRICE
   If you are shopping for a car then you are not going to drive to the car lot and ask the car salesman to show you the car with the most bells and whistles because he will then take you right to the most expensive cars, right?  If you are a small church then most likely your budget is just as small or smaller than the number of people you have in your congregation so we’re not going to waste our time reviewing church website cms companies that don’t have a product that is as low as $500.
2. TEMPLATES OR CUSTOM DESIGN
   One thing we have found in our research is that a lot of churches just want a website and they simply do not care if it’s a template.  Many church website cms companies out there don’t offer templates because they think it’s not worth the time to put out “copycat” websites and plus they want to charge more for the custom design.  Well, most small churches just want a website and if they can put in some pictures and their logo then they are completely fine with that.   What’s the criteria?  The total price for the website cannot exceed $2500 with custom design.
3. WHAT DO YOU GET?
   What do you get for the money?  How much can your website do?  Do they have additional modules that you can plugin later to expand what their website can do?  Are they using an open source CMS like Joomla that you will then have to update on your own later?  Yah, most companies won’t tell you that little piece of information but we’re going to spill the beans.
4. DELIVERY TIME
   How long does it take for them to deliver a working church website?  After all, time is money.

That’s it.  We try to keep things simple as you don’t have time to read through pages of technical stuff like whether they use Linux or Windows servers, MySQL or MSSQL and if the site is coded in PHP or .NET.  We’re going to give you a basic breakdown of what is good and bad with each system and then rate them on a four star system to further simplify our ratings.  What you do with the ratings at that point is up to you!  We pray for blessings on your church and your search for a church website cms company!