Designing the Virtual Church Door

Workshop Leader: Dr. Richard L. Bowman, director
Academic Computing, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, USA 22812

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HOW TO USE THE CHURCH WEB SITE TEMPLATE

Dr. Richard L. Bowman, Director
Academic Computing, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, USA 22812

The template provided here is simply a guideline for where a web author can begin on the journey to creating a web site for their church or organization. Click here to view the template.

A. Copy and modify the template to make it your own.

  • Add a photo of you church building or your members in worship, study and fellowship.
  • Make more pages using this template to discuss your total church program. All of these should be linked to each other through a navigation list at the left hand of each page.
  • Remove all references to Richard Bowman or rbowman@bridgewater.edu and substitue in your own name and email address.

B. Here is an outline of how to use these templates.

  1. Before copying the template, create a folder on your computer into which you will place all of the files that you will use for your web page.
  2. From the table below, save all of the items listed, placing them in the folder you created above. Copy these items by right-clicking on each hyperlink in turn and selecting "Save Target As..." from the resulting pup-up menu.

    Church Web Site Template
    index.html
    cross.jpg
    building.jpg

  3. Then move to the appropriate folder on your computer and open the web page by double-clicking on the "index.html" file's icon.
  4. From the browser, select the "Edit with Microsoft FrontPage" option in the list to the left of the arrow edit button on the browser's toolbar. If this is not available, go to the Start Menu and select Programs and then your favorite web page editor (such as FrontPage or Netscape's Composer) and open the web page in it from the File menu.
  5. To learn more about using Microsoft FrontPage to edit web pages, check out the tutorial at this site.
  6. This template is constructed using a "liquid" style. That is, they will automatically flow to fit whatever size of browser window they are opened in and they will fit whatever style of printed page a user is using. This style means that any table used to format a page should be designed with no fixed width (in pixels) or a width of "100%."
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