Ddbc websites for ministry-winter 2016

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Websites for Ministry
A Presentation of Digital Discipleship Boot Camp
Lifelong Learners in the New Media Age

Copyright © 2016 Digital Disciple Network
Presenter
Katie Choudhary
Producer
Kristi Jenkins

Questions and Answers
• Please use the question window on the right side of the screen to ask
questions.
• We are a wisdom community; your comments and additions to the
questions are also important
• Please use the CHAT or QUESTION window on the right side of your screen
to contribute responses

Our Three Social Media Tools

Developing Our Digital Minds
Class Process

Objectives
• Determine why a Ministry needs a website.
• Define Tools to develop websites.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of
color, layout and font for a website.
• Properly use images and music by following copyright
laws, obtaining permissions, and following the policies
of the entity where you are employed.

Website Basics

What is your website experience?
1. I read websites
2. I read and curate websites
3. I create websites
4. I read, curate, and create websites

What is a Website?
Location connected to the internet that
contains one or more pages on the World
Wide Web

Website Terminology
*
• Domain
• HTML
*
• What is the WWW
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator
*
• HTTP
• IP address
• Browsers: Safari, IE, Chrome, Firefox

Where do
Websites come
from?

Why a Website for a
ministry?

Basics of
Building
a Website

Choosing a Website Tool
Considerations
Cost of Website
Ease of Use
Modification

Online Tools To Build
A Better Website

Domain Names
Unique to each site
Make sure they are linked to your parish email
Identifies the webserver to connect to
Make sure it is relevant to your ministry
• Individual ministry websites are normally linked
to the Parish website. It is good to collaborate
with your Parish Webmaster. Make sure that you
have approval from Parish administration before
purchasing a domain.

Choosing a Website Name –
Domain Name
1. Domain Name = unique part of the
Website Uniform Resource Location
(URL).
http://www.acyberpilgrim.org
http://cursillopb.wix.com/cursillo
http://cathedralcfp.wix.com

2. Types of domain extensions
http://www.acyberpilgrim.org
Choosing a Website Name –
Domain Name
What other extensions are you aware of?
There are at least 14!

URL
Parts of a URL
Protocol: http or https
Domain name: www.disclepship.org
Pathname: /followjesus/
File name: newmedia.html
Example:
http:www.disclpeship.org/followjesus/newmedia.html

• Home Page
• About or
Profile Page
• Categories or
labels
• Sidebar
• Archives
• Header
• Footer
• Links
• Trackbacks or
backlinks
• Pings
• Tags
• Template or
theme
Parts of a Website

• Don’t plagiarize (Get permission first)
• Don’t commit libel against someone or something
• Don’t utilize music or images without permission
• Don’t publish pictures without permission
• Don’t have affiliate relationships (sales)
Website Dont’s

9 Points To Remember
What Contributes to Website
Success?

1. Writing Well
2. Writing Often
3. Building Links
4. Committing the Time
5. Having Passion
6. Socializing
7. Reading More than Writing
8. Being Comfortable With Technology
9. Having Patience
Success Comes With

Respond in Question area
• What areas are you most
comfortable with?
• What will be your
challenging areas?
1. Writing Well
2. Writing Often
3. Building Links
4. Committing the Time
5. Having Passion
6. Socializing
7. Reading More than Writing
8. Being Comfortable With Technology
9. Having Patience

Website Platforms
• A platform is a delivery system for your website
• Some options include: WordPress, WIX, Blogger
• All 3 platforms provide templates which give you a
starting point to build your site

Content Management Systems
• All information is
stored on a external
web server enabling
you to manage your
website from
anywhere you have
internet access

WordPress Dashboard

WIX Dashboard

Blogger Dashboard

Editing Tools
• Pictures- should be compressed and load
within 4 seconds
• Text- should be easy to understand
• Theme or template- chosen in each tool
dashboard
• You use these tools in the dashboard for each
tool

Ministry Use or Purpose
• Define the website to match the ministry
purpose
• The scope of this site is very specific in nature
• For example: a site for catechists to get lesson
plans or RCIA participants to find more
information on topics covered
• Not meant to compete with the parish
website but a resource for the ministry

Question
• What parish ministry do you think would
benefit from it’s own website?
• How would your ministry benefit from it’s
own website?

Process of Developing a Website
What is ministry mission?
Creation of website to support mission?
How will success be measured?
How does this website fit in with Parish website?

Creating Outline/Map of Website
Purpose
Title
Pages/Topics
Page Content
In all things, remember KISS

Blogger
• Goggle product
• Free
• Can get a domain name without the “blogger”
extension for a small fee
• Themes/designs are a bit elementary
• Looks like a blog as opposed to a website, but
that’s what it is primarily meant for

Blogger
Template
& Theme

Blogger

Posting on Blogger

WIX
• Simple to use drag and drop features
• No need to know HTML
• Free if you only want basic features and “wix”
in the domain name
• Different price packages based on features
desired
• Can upload documents and PDFs to the site

WIX Site Editing Tools

WIX Photo Editing

WordPress.com
• Free with ”wordpress” in the domain name
• Fairly straightforward to use
• You can tweek it to look more like a website
than a blog if you want, but some features are
not customizable
• Lots of themes, both free and for a fee

Posting on WordPress

WordPress Themes

WordPress Sample Themes

Publish or Go Live
• Your site is not available for public viewing
until you publish it or hit a “go Live” button
• Work can be saved in “draft” form until you
are ready to publish it

Parish Vs Ministry
Website Use
Ministry
• Fits the needs of the
ministry
• Can be 1-2 pages
• Uses: information,
materials, collaboration
• Pictures and information
specific to the ministry
• Site Map is short based
on the number of pages
Parish
• Fits the need of the Parish
• Sections are divided by
Ministry
• Can include: About us,
contact information,
Ministry information,
Pictures of Church,
Church Tour
• Site map is detailed and
includes all information
needed

Parish vs Ministry
Websites Samples
• Parish Website
– Radius:
https://www.radiuswebtools.com/parishes
– eCatholic: http://www.ecatholicwebsites.com/
• Ministry Website
– Baptism: http://stedbaptism.blogspot.com/
Deanna
– Claudia http://holyfamilycc.weebly.com/

Copyright Permissions
• Parent Permission- permission forms; follow the policy
of your entity
• Content
– Where do you get content
– Write your own
– Get from elsewhere
• Copyright rules apply
• Emphasis
– Font-
• Italics, bold, underline
– Style
• Colors utilized

The rules of copyright are a bit blurred in the online
world, but the safest path to follow is one that errs
on the side of being more conservative.
- Susan Gunelius, Blogging for Dummies
http://www.delicious.com/ccerveny/copyright
Teaching Copyright -
http://www.teachingcopyright.org/curriculum/hs
Understanding Copyright
and Fair Use

CC licenses are designed to give the owners of original
work a way to share that work more freely (and allow
other people to build on that work) by protecting the
owner of the original licensed work without applying a
full and highly restrictive copyright to it.
http://www.delicious.com/ccerveny/creativecommons
Using Creative Commons Licenses

Various types of attribution:
– Great article
– Pages
– Sources within your website
– Quotes
– Images
Providing Attribution

Question
Where do you go for images to use on
your website/social media?

Questions?

• WIX Tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0y_aclKYoYiiQOcmCPscYx1LynyDl0TV
Auburn University Copyright
http://www.auburn.edu/citizenship copyright_for_teachers.html
FairUse Information
http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq
Tutorials

Resources
• Web Style Guide by Lynch and Horton-Yale
University Press
• Learning Web Design Niederst- O’Reilly
• Transforming Parish Communications- Landry-
Our Sunday Visitor

Homework Reminders
• Remember to go to our class blog to continue our
conversation about this topic.
• Please complete assignments for this module
posted on the class wiki before the next webinar
• If you’re behind on assignments, start fresh with
this week’s Website topic and “catch up” later.

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