Comments on: Using Pictures to Answer the Three Questions Every Website Visitor Has https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: pmsteil https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-372212 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:18:17 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-372212 Paul, good article… we tell our churches these same things…

photos make your website "human" and "real" and much more exciting than text… videos are even better… I once "met" a pastor I was going to meet with over a YouTube video – he had a great testimony video posted… was funny, the next day I told him "I met you on YouTube" yesterday… 🙂

They also like to see people worshipping to see if the people there "look like them"… 🙂

Patrick Steil
ChurchBuzz.org

]]> By: Paul Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117537 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:44 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117537 Thanks for your comment “another church designer.”

First of all you’re right, the images used here are very basic stock images. That’s because this is a blog and not a homepage. I would certainly recommend putting a lot more time and effort into the images included on ones homepage.

Second, you say your level of trust has not increased, and yet you were read this entire article (and others?) and post a comment. So, this page succeeded in engaging you so you would stay beyond the first 15-60 seconds.

Thanks again. I hope you’ll continue to come back and contribute to the discussion.

– Paul

]]> By: Another church designer https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117481 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:12:52 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117481 Great article, but it’s somewhat ironic that your choices of images are very basic (or low quality) stock photos. My level of trust has not increased. 😉

]]> By: » Am I Welcome Here? https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117310 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:22:42 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117310 […] This is an intuitive decision based on information, appearance, and emotion.  The images on your website play a large roll in that decision.  In part 3 of this series, we look at the way the images on your site answer the question… […]

]]> By: Geoff https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117054 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:41:11 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-117054 gday Richard

Agree with your comments about images.

I use Sitesell.com to build my websites. For a very ridiculous price they provide all the knowledge, tools and ongoing assistance in a step by step manner so that ANYONE can build a site on anything. Check it out at Airplane -and-Aircraft.com via the “holding pattern” and follow the links.

]]> By: » Can I Trust You? https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116234 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:35:23 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116234 […] Last week I started a series of blog articles about the importance pictures have in helping new visitors make the gut-level decision to stay on your website more than 15 seconds.  I believe that every person who visits a website for the very first time arrives with the same three questions.  Sometimes a person is consciously looking for the answers, but often the questions lie just under the surface in the subconscious.  Today I’m going to speak to the first question… […]

]]> By: Paul Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116108 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:36:56 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116108 Hi Richard,

Thanks for your comments. I modified them to show the HTML code as you wanted to.

By the way, OurChurch.Com’s NE1 Website Builder not only allows you to add images and text anywhere on the page and change text size, font, colors, backgrounds, and resize images etc, but it also allows you to link pictures to other pages make those pages open in a new window without having to know the HTML for it.

– Paul

]]> By: Richard https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116045 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:36:29 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116045 OK that didnt work Like I wanted it to….

if you want the visitor to visit a page without leaving your page then after the quotes of the image location put a space and tar get =”_blank” This will open that page in a new window.

Sorry didn’t know that the comment section would actually take the html code i put in before. The links above are pretty much bogus except for the htmlgoodies.com and http://www.wlbc.info.
Thanks

]]> By: Richard https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116044 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:30:48 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-116044 I use yahoo webhosting and they have a web page builder that allows you to add images and text anywhere on the page and writes the code for you. It also allows you to change text size, font, colors, backgrounds, and resize images ect… I have also found helpful websites like http://www.htmlgoodies.com to be very useful site for codes and ideas. The website that I manage currently is http://www.wlbc.info . Most of the website is using the drag and drop method but have some written html pages and snippets as well. I also can add html snippets wherever i need to enhance the page, for instance if you want to past an html code because of a banner ect…
Since I do most of my surfing on Internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox, they both have options to “view source”. This is another way to figure out how some pages are put together. If you know how to get the properties for a image on a website or save a picture from a website you can figure out which line of code the picture is on.
Most of the time you would use

To put it in a specific place on the page I would suggest going to htmlgoodies.com for some helpful hints. You can also make pictures into links by inserting the link inside the first like this:

<a href=”http://www.thelinkedpage.com”>then your image then the </a>to end the link.
Hope this helps.

]]> By: Eliezer Martinez https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-115099 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:53:28 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/2008/03/06/using-pictures-to-answer-the-three-questions-every-website-visitor-has/#comment-115099 Your article on using pictures is interesting. My web site is total text. Perhaps I should insert a few images. But I still don’t know how to do it.

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