Comments on: Church Web Design Part 8: Hands-On Training – a Critical Key to Success https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: » Church Web Design Part 9: 12 Principles for Organizing a Church Website https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-78045 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:14:53 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2007/10/04/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-78045 […] Last week, in part 8 of this series about the redesign of my church’s website, we talked about the importance of training to the long-term success of a website and why it is often neglected.  With my training complete and OCC having added content to the site there were only two steps remaining before the site could go live: review the site to be sure everything included in the contract had been done and add the rest of the content to the site.  But when we started adding the rest of the content we realized there was a big unresolved issue – how do we organize all these pages?  How many main menu items should we have?  What should they be named? […]

]]> By: Paul Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-75950 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:44:57 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2007/10/04/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-75950 His Child, thanks for your comment. You’ve asked some great questions. In fact those issues are critical enough that I’ve added a paragraph to the article:

OCC’s strategy is to train the primary web administrator on all the CMS functionality. Then it’s the web administrator’s responsibility to train other staff and volunteers as upkeep of certain parts of the site is delegated to others. I’ll talk about my training of the staff and volunteers at my church in a future article.

]]> By: web design » Church Web Design Part 8: Hands-On Training - a Critical Key to ... https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-75931 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:47:19 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2007/10/04/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-75931 […] admin wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn part 7 of this series about the redesign of my church’s website, we left off with Mike (OCC’s website developer on this project) having added a limited amount of content to the new website. The next step in the development process is … […]

]]> By: His Child https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-75927 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:06:02 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2007/10/04/church-web-design-part-8-hands-on-training-a-critical-key-to-success/#comment-75927 I’m not sure this is an accurate real-world representation. Who is training the church staff? Why are you the one being trained? Don’t you already know how to use the CMS for the most part? Are the church secretary and other staff going to catch on as quickly as you did?

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