Australia’s Best Church Websites

While the websites of churches in Australia have been a little bit behind the trend (particularly compared to US churches) there are a few particularly great examples I thought it was worth pointing out. When looking for great church websites I am looking for a couple of things. Obviously the overall look and feel is important – but also the technology and techniques being used, whether the site is responsive, and how well the site communicates.

Let’s take a look at some websites:

City on a Hill

This site is my current favour of the crop – It’s fantastically thought out in its design (love the contrast of dark panels with light panels) and has amazing depth of content. Bonus points for being responsive as well.

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Hope Centre

The Hope Centre website is a lovely piece of minimal design work. The site itself is predominantly a framework that allows the great design work of the slides, and panels to show through. There’s great consistency of style in all of the graphical elements – and a nice focused on considered typography. There’s a few nice little technical touches as well – like the persistent top navigation on longer pages.

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Enjoy Church

First off the bat – the Enjoy Church website gets points for being responsive – it scales and adjusts nicely down at smaller screen sizes. In terms of the visuals – it is another fairly minimal, type focused, design. I particularly like the way the semi-transparent logo interacts with the big hero images.

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White Horse Church

White Horse Church hits you in the face with it’s clean, slightly unexpected branding. The whole site continues a visual feel that fits well with the church, a plant that meets in a pub in inner Sydney. The typography is well considered, and the site has a bunch of compelling content – beyond the obvious service times and info.

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Bridge Church

At first glance the Bridge Church website seems perhaps a little plain – but a closer look reveals lots of nice little details (check out the navigation on the homepage slideshow). More amazing visuals fill up a nice, clean shell – and really do all the talking.

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CitiPointe Church

Citipointe Church’s website fits the trend of a big slideshow of compelling images on the homepage – but takes it a step further. The little labels underneath do a nice job of previewing what each of the slides will be – particularly if you are looking for something specific. The site is nicely designed, with nice big background images framing the well laid out content.

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Are there any great examples of Australian Church Websites you have seen?