Why Churches Love Gutensite
Site Examples
Features
Visitors will form an impression about your church by what they see online. People are more likely to visit your church for the first time, if your site looks good and makes it easy for them to find the information they need to make a decision. Fortunately, whether you use our free design skins, or request a custom design, you will be sure to impress.
We assume most churches don't have a webmaster on staff. Fortunately Gutensite is easy to use, and with our unlimited free customer service you aren't ever alone. We offer training, and ongoing support to help you learn how to take full advantage of the tools available. It's like having a webmaster on staff.
Easily syndicate your sermons or music to iTunes users through the popular Podcast platform.
Connect with a new visitors, increase interest in your church and it's ministries, provide insight and teaching, plus secure higher search engine rankings, with our powerful blogging features.
Prebuilt pages with a map and space for directions to your location.
Create a simple or advanced library of sermons or other media resources, with advanced searching capabilities, custom filters and custom fields.
Create a simple or advanced library of teaching or other file resources, with advanced searching capabilities, custom filters and custom fields.
Keep your community up to date with the latest news and announcements online.
Create an in depth topical article library, e.g. Theology, Missions, etc.

Syndicate your News, Articles, Blogs, FAQs, and Multimedia content.
Use the FAQ feature to provide a public or private list of prayer requests and how they have been answered.
Any page or file on your site can be made private, which is a great way to restrict church directories, nursery schedules, worship resources, small group resources, etc., to certified members of your church (multiple access levels available). You can allow anyone to create a visitor account on your website, allow anyone but require manual approval by church staff, or create all accounts manually (if you only plan on using your accounts for specific people in the church).
Display a staff list with photos, bios, contact data, calendar and other information (organized in different categories if you like, e.g. Elders, Office Workers, Nursery Team, etc).
Let your visitors or members tell others about your church in their own words.
List all your upcoming events, sermon series, nursery schedule, small group meetings, retreats, etc.
Request special information from your visitors: solicit feedback, simple registration for events, etc.
Make slideshows of church and youth group events.
Create profiles of the communities you serve, with descriptions, community links, service directory, slideshow, video, maps, etc.
Unlimited Additional Pages
Promote content from your home page, e.g. upcoming events, latest blog or news article, featured sermon audio/video, promotional images, etc.
Accept online donations from your website.
Take your bookstore online, or utilize the event registration module when events require pre-payment.*
We provide a basic intranet for administrative needs, which currently provides project scheduling, task management, reporting, file sharing (e.g. worship resources), etc.
Multiple Administrative Accounts
Assign various task based permissions to different administrators to share the work load of updating and maintaining your website.
Standards compliant code, plus all the tools you need to enhance your site's performance in search engine rankings, modify keywords, descriptions, page titles, search engine sitemaps, etc.
Your gutensite is integrated with Google Analytics for tracking visitor activity.
*The store feature is an additional upgrade to the standard monthly subscription.