Hello robblair:

Welcome to C-W-M. We will definately take a look at your website.

I'll try and look at it tomorrow.

May you be blessed as you fellowship here.

In Christ:

Sean Buscay

Well, I'm not usually a good reviewer, so take everything I say with a grain of salt...

First impression: nice, clean, fast-loading (and on my slow connection, that's really something!)

The data layout was very veryeasy to understand. I instantly knew where I was going and what I wanted to see...

A few things that I would change:

Center the navigation table and remove the border -- I found the border to be a little distracting -- nice buttons though!

The picture on the index page is nice, but Sean and Paul may have something to say about SEO -- I don't know, I'm still a newbie (understatement of the year) when it comes to SEO. I would probably suggest making the four smaller images links though -- that was where my mouse was first drawn, but when I realized they were not links, I headed over to the nav bar.

One last thing, it may just be my browser (tech trouble here, I can get my IE to work), but it appears that you were trying to center the © info at the bottom (and the address and stuff), but it's off center slightly -- it should be aligned to the entire image on the index page, not the entire page...

All in all -- nice 8)

- Luke

Hi robblair!

Yes, good to have you here at CWM!

Like Luke said, nice and clean and fast-loading. No annoying animations, background midi's or marquee text. I also agree with Luke in that the main spalsh image looks like an image-map. But rather than making it four links, I would suggest replacing it with text that leads the visitor further into your site, rather than leaving it completely up to them where they click next. Who are you targetting the website to? Visitors, or members of your church, or other people? You need to give you viewers reasons to visit your various pages. Example: "Looking for an exciting youth group?" which might lead to more info about your church's youth ministry. My church's site will be having a more wordy front page soon, instead of a graphical splash page, to make it mnore visitor friendly and also give search engines more words to index.

For you nav links, they are good, but text links are always better for Search Engine Optimisation. Consider the merits of replacing the buttons with text marked-up with CSS and JS.

Good to see the calendar is up-to-date. But it is probably a bit empty, both in terms of the number of things in it (consider adding in more of the activities of your various ministries) and also giving more info about the various events, such as the revival meetings and the camps. One thing that would be good on your front page is a sample of what is happening each week/month, depending on how often you wish to update the site.

Missions Page:

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I would be interested in finding out a bit more about what kinds of things the missionaries do. Why does your church have missionaries anyway (maybe that's a question worth answering on this page). This info would be more helpful, and probably more interesting, than the map of the world. I'm not suggesting you remove it, but if you wanted one or the other, I would go for the info over the map.

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I think there should be a link to the directions page on every page - it's one of the most important things you can tell your visitors! And a photo of your church building would be good to, so they know they've found the right place.

A general thing for your website: as far as search engines are concerned (in general), the most important places for text are the page title and headings (H1, H2, ...). Link text is also important for the linked-to pages. Consider using H1/H2 tags, rather than just up-sized font tags. And add relevant text to the page titles too!

You have a good collections of sermons! Excellent

I see you use PHP on a couple of pages. PHP is very useful for helping you keep the site consistent and easier to manage - consider using it on more of the pages.

Okay, time for me to hit the sack. Hope it is helpful.