The City Church
Seattle, Washington
http://www.thecity.org
I like this site for a number of reasons — 1) the design is excellent (not a surprise given the involvement of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain, one of the premier designers on the web today); 2) the navigation system is particularly well-thought-out; 3) the site features a voluminous amount of content; and, 4) it uses my favorite content management system (Expression Engine). The proper use of a content management system can help enhance the flow of information and eliminate bottlenecks in publishing information to the church’s website (which is a huge challenge for most Christian organizations).
Unfortunately, while the site is well-designed, it definitely presents an institution rather than a community of people, which again, is one of my pet peeves about church websites today.
Contacts: Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain and Sean Sperte
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
