Your Church Name

Welcome to our website!

This is a template. You can substitute your church name, address, city, town, county , state and telephone number for the ones I used here and - voila! you'll have a simple web site.

Click on View -> Source to see the HTML code. I used a table to get the navigation bar at the left. That means you'll have to scroll through two dozen lines that are the same for every page to get to the meat of the page.

This is the home page. You'd normally welcome visitors, give them the name of your minister, and tell them when and where you meet. Pictures of your church go well on the home page, especially if the picture has a lot of your members standing in front of the church. The picture at the bottom of this page isn't a church; it is me, eating lunch at the Rocky Point Restaurant, just 11 miles south of Carmel, California. It was such a nice place that I ordered dessert and a pot of tea so I could stay longer. My church is not photogenic and I didn't want to swipe a picture of a little white clapboard church in New England off the Internet

New Web Masters sometimes mis-state the dimensions of their pictures. (Any photo editor, and even the newer versions of Windows Explorer, will tell you your picture's dimensions.) For instance, suppose you have a 4-megabyte 2,000 x 3,000 image file, but you decide you need just a 200 x 300 image on your page. You put 200 x 300 in your "img" tag, but you upload the full 2,000 x 3,000 image to your site. That means your poor visitor is going to have to wait while his browser:

1) Downloads 4,000,000 bytes of graphics

2) Squishes the image to a hundredth of its real size.

It is much better to use an image editor to re-size the image to 200 x 300, save it as a mere sylph of its former self, put the real dimensions in your "img" tag, and let your visitors get on with their lives. This picture is 300 x 500.