Website templates
in your colours
Page and article templates designed for your church by our designers, so every new page looks the part and nobody has to be a web designer.
Templates made for one church, not a thousand
Most church website templates are made for everybody, which means they fit nobody quite right. You choose a theme, then spend evenings trying to make it look like your church, and the next volunteer quietly undoes the work. Ours start the other way round. When we build your Chrestos website, our designers create a set of page and article templates in your own colours and style, for your church, circuit or district and no one else.
From then on, a new page is a matter of choosing a template, typing your words and adding a few pictures. The layout, the colours and the fonts take care of themselves. Nobody has to remember which shade of blue the headings were. There are page templates for the everyday pages, such as a church, a group or a service, and article templates for news, so each kind of content has a shape that suits it.
Why a church website template matters
A church website is rarely looked after by one person for long. A steward adds the harvest supper, a minister writes a letter for the new year, someone from the youth group puts up photographs from the weekend away. Without a church website template, each of them would make the page look a little different, and after a year or two the site would look like a scrapbook.
With Chrestos, every new page inherits its branding automatically. However many people help, the site keeps looking like the same church. Photographs and videos are placed and resized for you, so a page reads well on a phone, a tablet or a computer screen without anybody thinking about it. Branded templates and a responsive church website, in other words, without anyone needing to know what either phrase means.
Church website design templates, kept by us
These are church website design templates in the plain sense: the design is done once, properly, and then stays with us. We look after the templates, the hosting and the upkeep. Unlike most church website themes, there is nothing to install, update or patch, and there is nothing to break.
The templates sit inside the Web Design Tools, our church website builder in the Chrestos Cloud. Those tools come with Chrestos Classic and Chrestos Premium, so you can make your own changes whenever it suits you. With Chrestos Essentials we make the changes for you instead, using the same templates.
Pages, news and the rest
The same templates carry everything else your site grows into: newsrooms and blogs, maps, a protected page for your circuit directory and a file library for minutes and agendas. If you want to see how dates and notices fit in, our page on the church events calendar shows how services and events find their way onto the site.
A template is not exciting in itself. It simply means the person updating the website on a Sunday afternoon can get on with saying what they want to say.
What the templates do for you
Three small things that keep a church website looking like itself.
Designed for you
Our designers build your page and article templates when your site is set up, in your own colours and style, for your church and no one else.
Branding built in
Choose a template, type your words and add a picture. Each new page takes on your branding by itself, so there is nothing to style or break.
Every screen
Photos and videos are placed and resized automatically, so pages built from your templates read well on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
However many people
help with the site
A steward adds the harvest supper, the minister writes a letter, someone uploads photographs from the weekend away. Because every page starts from the same templates, the site keeps looking like the same church, whoever has been busy on it.
The layout, colours and fonts take care of themselves, so each person can concentrate on what they want to say.
Nothing to install,
nothing to patch
The templates live in the Chrestos Cloud, and we look after them along with the hosting and the upkeep. There are no themes to install or update.
With Chrestos Classic or Chrestos Premium you make your own changes using the Web Design Tools. With Chrestos Essentials we make them for you, using the same templates.
See the templates
at work
Tell us a little about your church, circuit or district and we will show you a live site being edited, with no obligation.
"...We highly recommend ThenMedia Chrestos who have designed, hosted and supported our church website since 2015. They listened to our needs, exceeded expectations in design and ensured smooth content transfer from our previous site. Andrew, Toby and John have given us patient and effective telephone support..."
Would you like to see your templates?
Tell us about your church and we’ll show you how a template-built site works in practice.
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