Specializing in church, fraternal, and religious organization's web sites and the challenge of holding and influencing the visitors to those sites

 Our belief

 As with any environment there are many things in the Web that conflict with the teachings of my church and the ideals of the Knights of Columbus to which I belong.  I made the decision to improve the landscape so to speak by designing sites that would add a positive influence to the Web.

My decision led me to examine a lot of church and similarly appointed sites.  The majority of the sites were informative but alos quite predictable and rather dull.  Though there is nothing wrong with that, with the context of these sites, I just felt these sites were missing a chance to influence their visitors

When you see silly animations, pictures, links to gaming, advertisments and search bars on our pages they are there to attract people (especially the young) and hold their interest for just a liitle longer, hopefully directing them to content we know through research is appropriate and worthwhile without always being dull.  To influence people you must first get their attention and most of the church and religious organization sites are not making this effort.  Those sites assume that visitors to their sites is limited to the group they represent.  The Web though is worldwide and I have seen small sites of obscure groups visited by web surfers from around the world.  My own council site in a small town in Delaware has had hits (visits) from countries around the world. 

The point is to make your investment in a web site a multi-purpose tool to project the positive influence which churches, fraternal, and religious organizations represent. More bang for the buck.

I spend a lot of time searching out fun and worthwhile things on the net so that they are available for the sites we design.  They are integrated within the sites like little hidden gifts. So do not make fun of my winking bunny, he is a leader and quite an inflential character to our youth.

Mark Madachik  Webmaster  member KofC 12509