Setting Up a Mobile-Friendly Church Website

Discover why mobile optimization matters and learn the practical steps to ensure your church website looks and works great on every device.

53 min

Free to watch

What you'll learn

Why over 60% of church website visitors are on mobile devices
How to test whether your current site is truly mobile-friendly
Design principles that make navigation easy on small screens
How page speed affects mobile experience and SEO rankings
Simple changes you can make today to improve the mobile experience

Notes

Responsive design means your site adjusts to phones, tablets, laptops and even TVs instead of just shrinking down.
Visitors judge your church within a fraction of a second of seeing your site, so visual design is not optional.
Not every website is responsive, so don't assume yours is; many church sites are not.
Over 70 percent of church website traffic can come from phones, which is why a mobile first approach matters.
Google treats mobile friendliness as a ranking factor and prefers one site over separate mobile and desktop versions.
Third party plugins like sermon players or calendars often are not mobile friendly, so check each one.
Test it by viewing your site on your phone, and use Google's mobile friendly test for a clear pass or fail.
Start with a design built to be responsive; a good example is a navigation that collapses into a hamburger menu on phones.
Demo: set the background image alignment so the focus stays on the right part of the photo on every device.
Use recommended image sizes, such as square leadership photos, and resize with a free tool like Canva.

Companion article

Notes and resources that go with this session

CSL 004 – How do I Set up a Mobile-Friendly Church Website? →

Transcript

Full transcript of this session

Isabelle Faletti (00:00):

Hello, welcome to ChurchSpring Live episode zero zero four. We are so excited to have you here today. Today, we are going to talk about how you can set up your church website with a responsive design. So how can you make your website look great on every single device, your phone, your TV, your desktop laptop, all of that. So I’m Isabelle, I’m part of the customer success team. And today I have Rohn Gibson with me co founder of ChurchSpring. Right now I’m hearing some feedback on myself. So for all your live listeners. Okay, great live stream. You gotta love it. If you are new to ChurchSpring we are a software provider committed to the great commission. So what that actually means is that we help church leaders by providing really practical tools to help aid in growing the local church for the glory of Christ.