Church Site

[GivenRandy]

Please review this church site:

http://www.ascrc.org/index.htm

Thank you very much!

[mike7727]

simple, easy to navigate, easy to read; very cool idea wih the mp3s for the sermons!

[Connie]

Nice site.

[stevenha]

One thing I'd suggest that you change, is to obfuscate the email address, instead of leaving a bare mailto:

My father was telling me about his church, and the problems created by spam email. You see, the person who looks after computer stuff for that church isn't there everyday, and may only be there once a week.

In a week, an incredible amount of spam email can accumulate, which can be overwhelming, and offensive, to a church volunteer. It can even fillup the mailservers quota before a week is up, preventing legitimate emails from getting through.

So, preventing spambots from harvesting the email address off your site, might help prevent all that hassle.

[gerilya]

I would change fonts and may be have a little work on the first page: it's not focused and the picture shifts a balance to the right bottom corner.
But overally, it's a good site indeed!

[gerilya]

A quick note about SPAM:
1. better use 'contact us' form
2. do not use 'webmaster' as a valid e-mail address, it's one of those addresses that are always tried first by mail bots.

[rmilner]

I like the site, the only thing I would change are the links to the sermons....for me I hate the way quick time opens up in a new window with nothing there but the control bar, maybe make a framed page with the mp3's target to a frame so people will see something other than a blank page with the quick time control bar....an example is on a page that I built for a Gospel Artist...www.dhunterministries.com. If you have any questions please let me know.

[GivenRandy]

Thanks!

[JonathanB]

I agree with what Stevenha said about obfuscating the email address.

I prefer to have only a contact form on my personal sites. But if you REALLY want to include a mailto link, here's a nice page that will encode the address (and mailto link). All you have to do is enter the information and it will automatically create the enconded link. Then just paste it on to your page.

http://www.hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php

[Chappy]

For myself, while the layout is clear, I do like a menu bar that visually sets the navigation area apart from the content space (which is not to say that it is not clear, only that it would benefit IMHO by being separate in the page from the visual field of the content). The logical order of the site is very good. You might want to take a look at the meta tags. I think I remember reading somewhere that you want to ditch all the Microsoft Front Page notations in the headers - that they are a point against you in search engine rankings (really, that goes for all the one-size-fits-all editors).