Sometimes people will ask us "Just how customized can our church or ministry website be if we use SnapShot Web?" Well, take a look at the new Live Curriculum Site and see what you think. The designers over at Simply Youth Ministry put the design together and our team here simply dropped it into the SnapShot Web tools.
Stay tuned in the near future as we are working on some great new templates that you are going to love.
A letter from a gifted designer, pastor, and SnapShot Web user in Northern Ireland:
Hey, my name’s Neil Young, I am the Youth Pastor at the Causeway Coast Vineyard church, Northern Ireland. Through our youth movement, Destination:Home, we work with a variety of young people in schools, streets, café’s, smallgroups etc and I love what I get to do as a job.
We have been using snapshot web since 2008 and it has been such a valuable tool in communicating why we do what we do and when we do it. We have found a number of things pretty important when it comes to building web sites, especially church based sites.
We sometimes hear questions that go something like this: "Since SnapShot Web uses templates, how can I ensure that my site doesn't look just like everyone else's site?" The underlying assumption is that a template is a static entity - something you simply drop onto your Church Website and can never change or customize. This is simply not the case.
We always tell people that the templates are really just a place to start. FInd the template that is the closes to what you are looking for and then start tweaking the colors and images and backgrounds so that it will fit your particular culture. Three months down the road, if you are looking for something different, change it. We'll make this super easy for you.
All of our templates are included with any of the SnapShot Plans. You can change as often as you'd like and even use different templates for different pages or sections of your site. You can see live examples of all of the templates at www.snapshottemplates.com.
To get a sense of just how customizable the templates are, you've got to take a look at www.graceyouth.net. Click through that site and see all of the things they have going on. See if you can tell what template this is.
Give up? Here is the template that they started with.