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Pastor Rick came to our youth Bible study session 2 months ago and asked us if we could create a website for our church. The goal of the website would be to help new residents find our church online. Pastor Rick felt that a nice looking website with our address and some directions from major highways would be great for drawing new faces to church. He did want us to try and keep the cost of making and maintaining the site to a minimum as our funds our limited to church donations.

I figured that with my experience I’d be able to make something useful for the church. The first thing I looked into was free web sites. My thoughts were you can’t pay anything less than zero. I let the Pastor know that we could get a decent free site to use and he gave me the green light.

The first type of free web site I looked into was a WordPress blog. I figured that these are easy and simple to set up so it wouldn’t take much time. After giving it some more thought I decided that we should look into something a little more fancy. The use of a WordPress site would work great for current members, but I didn’t think it would draw the new members in effectively enough.

My classmates and I figured we should create a site that was incredibly visually appealing. What I really needed was a flash web site. With a flash site I would be able to make a neat introduction and even add some flash animations to really make the site appealing. When a new resident sees the great web site they might just end up deciding to visit our church. Conversely a poorly made web site might keep people from wanting to visit so I knew I had to do a good job.

I went on the Internet looking for a free flash web site before I did anything else. This proved harder than I thought it would, but eventually I found a great free website. I found this through an article I read about a student creating a free flash site for his school project. This person had found the ultimate free site that let you use all kinds of flash applications. The free site even came with a multitude of templates to choose from. I got to use flash animations and didn’t even have to code.

We used a local Minneapolis seo company to optimize the website for more free search engine traffic. This company did a great job optimizing the site and building links to it. They really made things easy for us.

After 2 months of waiting a brand new family came to our church services. Pastor Rick asked them who referred them, and they said a web site they found online.