What makes MinistryCraft the right fit for you?
MinistryCraft.com uses software that is built for your ministry website or church website. There is a strong emphasis on security that is ever expanding in features and functionality. Sure, many ministry website management software companies provide a way to upload your media (images, video, audio, podcasts, documents), create online forms, allow you to process online payments, market your website, but MinistryCraft.com as a service is designed to not only give you those expected features (and more) but to make sure you know how to use them effective for your website.
We believe that your church website's content and usability is what makes a great website. Having a professional front-end design and being able to manage your content should be expected. That is where MinistryCraft.com shines.
Beautiful & feature enriched front-end websites is our goal! Powerful and feature enriched back-end websites is our service.
Professional Design
You should always be proud of your website. Having a professionally designed site makes it a pleasure to show-off your website. You have a say on what your website looks like. We want to make sure the website you start with is what you want!
Content Management System
Easy to use, flexibile and very powerful and feature rich. What more do you need?
Page Management
Adding pages and making changes to those pages is where you will spend most of your time on your website, this is why we made sure the website editor is much like using a simple word processor with a website flavor.
Add Links, Documents, Images, Videos and more
You can easily add just about any type of resource you want on your webpages. You can link or embed youtube.com videos (or other types of videos), documents (pdf, word, excel, etc.) or hyperlinks (of any type) to anywhere.
Not a website coder? No problem.
Anyone can manage their website without being a programmer. If you know HTML or CSS, you can take advantage of the power of the editor.
The Internet Is All You Need
Manage your website from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. Use any current browser (we recommend Google Chrome). You just sign in from anywhere to make your changes.
Changes are Immediate!
The editor is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. As you make changes and hit SAVE (permanant) or APPLY (temporary), you can see the result immediately so you can make sure your webpages look just like you like them to look.
Time Your Webpages {cool feature icon}
Ever wish your website content would not show up till the date & time you are ready, no problem. You can specify the date/time (down to the second) when you want content to START showing on your website and you can specify the date/time (down to the second) when you want your content to STOP showing on your website.
Search Engine Optimized
If you like, you can put in useful keywords, descriptions, robots and authors (metadata information) for pages & menu items.
Powerful Components, Modules & Plug-Ins
Media Players
There are no limits on how many media players you have on your website. Each sermon can have it's own player (if you like).
Podcasting
It's easy to podcast with our podcasting component.
Automatically Generated Pages
Ever wish you could just add your content and your website would be smart enough to populate the page(s) for you... well you can in the MinistryCraft.com system.
Online Calendars
Easily embed (or link) to your Google Calendars, use the built in powerful Calendar module. Either way, it is easy to manage your online calendars to keep your site visitors updated with current information.
Password Protect Any Page & Registered Users
Sometimes you have information on your website you don't want just anyone to see, no problem with MinistryCraft. You can password protect any webpage. You can also require users to register before getting access to private (hidden) content. This works great for providing members information "for their eyes only".
Form Management
Asking the right questions on a website is critical. Allowing members to register for your events and services is essential to any functional website. The powerful forms tools is easy to use and feature enriched.
After a form is completed:
- Sent to as many email addresses as you like
- Saved to a database
- Provide a response to the person who completed the form via email, a screen response and/or to a redirected page
Use your forms:
- Embed your forms in your pages
- Attach your forms to menu items
- Link to any forms from wherever on your website
Slideshows, Image Galleries & Image Faders
Have images from your mission trip and wish to upload them easily and quickly to your website and have the website automatically populate the pages for you in an attractive format? MinistryCraft sites have this capability. Wish you had the type of image transitions/slides/fades you see on commercial sites, of course you can do that in your MinistryCraft.com powered website.
Social Media Integration
Easily add links to any social networks you use. It's easy.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Friendly
Every word, menu on every page you create is search engine (google, yahoo, bing) friendly. Your website page titles become your search engine friendly URLS to raise your search engine ranking. Keywords are fully customizable by you at anytime per page or menu item.
Storage, Backups & Statistics
10 GB of Storage
With that much storage, you can store thousands of images, a whole year's worth of sermons (audio) and so much more. You will never have to worry about running out of space.
Automatic Backups
Backups occur each day and you never have to worry about them. Each backup is stored in a secure environment on Amazon S3 and/or Rackspace cloud servers. Over the past seven years, we have averaged a 99.98% uptime.
Website Statistics
Each website comes with advanced statistics, from page hits, unique visitors, what browsers visitors are using, to where in the world they are located and so much more. For users who want to use Google Analytics for additional statistical data, it is easy to integrate Google Analytics into your website.*
Customer Service
Personalize Customer Service
You can reach us Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (Central Time) at 682-233-5745. If you call outside those hours, we'll call you back either that day or the latest by the next business day. You can always email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your comments or question or visit our support area on our website (click here). Our staff are designed to take care of your personalized needs for your website. We realize that we don't know everything (really don't) but we nearly always know how to find the answer you are looking for (if we don't already know the answer).
You always have 24/7 access to our Help Desk full of helpful articles, video tutorials (http://www.youtube.com/MinistryCraft), free downloads, and the ability to create a support ticket, plus you get phone support during our regular business hours.
* Google Analytics component is added per your individual request.
