From all at ChurchWeb, we wish you all a blessed Christmas.
We look forward to working with you to develop your ministry in 2021
Coming in December 2020
New Dashboard
We quietly announced we were working on this in our August update. Some of you have been asking when it will be ready. We bring good news: we’re rolling this out to everyone on 1st December.
Thanks go to St Paul’s Church in Letchworth who have been testing this for us.
Our new dashboard includes the following features:
- New clean & modern appearance
- Analytic data on your website visitors
- Folders to organise the media within your library
- Image data editing improvements
- New content page – All your posts, pages and other content on one screen with advanced filters, folders, quick previews and edits
All of the other features you’re used to are still present.
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If you need a hand getting used to this change, or would like help with anything else to do with your website or church technology, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We’re always keen to help. Get in touch today
November 2020 updates
This month we have added the ability to create a duplicate of all pages, posts, and sermons
- Now in the list of pages, posts and sermons you will see two new options:
- ‘Clone’ will create an exact copy and save it
- ‘New Draft’ will create an exact copy and open it for editing
If you need a hand with anything to do with your website, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Get in touch today
October 2020 updates
This month we bring you:
- Improved Podcasting
- Search Engine Optimisation improvements
- Improvements to our live streaming support for services and special occasions
- Improvements to our integration with Office 365 services (email, and office suite etc)
Don’t forget ChurchWeb is here for you. The best websites are those which are regularly reviewed and developed between us and the church. Get in touch with us at support@churchweb.uk to book a review.
We’ll review your website as often as you’d like, and work with you to make sure your website is effective at achieving your goals. Get in touch today
September 2020 Updates
ChurchWeb continues to lead the way on the web. This month we bring you major updates:
- Major speed increases and website responsiveness on all major web browsers
- Automatic Image Optimisation
- No longer do you need to spend time converting photos to a web optimised size before you upload it to your website
- We automatically compress large images, reducing the file size to the optimal size for the web
- We automatically reduce the dimensions of super large images to the maximum size possible for display own your site
- This uses advanced image technology called WebP
- Enhanced Image Optimisation helps to improve your Search Engine rankings
- No longer do you need to spend time converting photos to a web optimised size before you upload it to your website
We are the only Church Website provider to offer this new technology
August 2020 Updates
Major improvements to the Block Editor:
- New blocks available.
- Some images can now be edited directly within the block editor
- Other usability improvements based on user feedback
Substantial improvements for visually impaired people using screen readers
Coming Soon
We’ve introduced a new beta admin/dashboard console for our churches who help us test and develop new features. This will be ready for all churches later in 2020. It includes the following features:
- Folders to organise your media library.
- Image editing within the Media Library
- New content page in dashboard
- Bringing together all your posts, pages and other content onto one screen with advanced filters, folders, quick previews and edits.
- Improved analytics
- New clean modern look and layout
Event Manager – online locations
Update July 2020: We’ve updated our Event Manager to support churches holding services or other events online.
When creating an event there is now an option to specify if the event is at a physical location such as a church or community centre, or an online location such as Zoom, or Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams.
Physical locations work in the same way they’ve always done, however for online events, you can add a URL to the online meeting service you use, or to a specific webpage with more detailed joining instructions.
Let us know your feedback: support@churchweb.uk
New editor now available
The trial of the new ‘ Block Editor ‘ has gone well with our trial churches, and feedback is overwhelmingly positive. This new editor allows for increased flexibility in website design while increasing ease of use.
We are now opening up this new editor to all churches, if you’d like to upgrade immediately please drop us a line at support@churchweb.uk
All churches will be automatically upgraded by 1st September 2020
To prepare for this change, please see the familiarisation video’s in the User Guide / Manual on the left hand side of your dashboard, and review this guide. Any questions, we’d love to hear them. Do contact us at support@churchweb.uk
New Support Desk details
- As part of our rebranding from Ethica to ChurchWeb the contact details for our support desk have changed.
- Support can be accessed from our website churchweb.uk/support or by email at support@churchweb.uk
April 2020 Improvements
Block Editor Improvements
- Two brand-new blocks:
- Social Icons and Buttons – make adding interactive features fast and easy.
- Speed Improvements