This is a Guest Post by Conrad Walton.
The biggest hurdle to getting a web site up and running is people. That’s true in the corporate world and in the church world. Technology is easy and fun. Design is easy and fun. Getting people to understand and agree is the hard part.
One of two things usually happens: They either people don’t care at all or they care too much. And sometimes you get really lucky and it’s a combination of both at the same time.
After understanding the much larger hurdle (people) it’s time to tackle the smaller and more practical ones: The first hurdle is to get the site up. Period. Valuable questions at this stage could be “Do we need one?” or “What should it look like?” Answers like the following typically don’t help much: “My daughter’s boyfriend is a web designer and he could do it.” or “We need to have a meeting to review the proposal for the possible implementation of the feasibility study of the budget plan for the design work.”
My personal interpretation is that they simply don’t really care, or they don’t know how to care properly.
My advice: Just do it.
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