Features

Good Design

Site visitors are more likely to visit your church for the first time, if your site looks welcoming, professional and if your service times and location information are easy to find. Fortunately, whether you use our free design skins, or request a custom design, you can count on uniquely good design.

Support

Most churches don't have a webmaster on staff so we make Gutensite easy to use and we provide unlimited free customer service for our pro clients. We offer training, and ongoing support to help you learn how to take full advantage of the tools available.

Podcasting

Easily syndicate your sermons or music to iTunes users through the popular Podcast platform.

Blog

Connect with new visitors, increase interest in your church and its ministries, provide insight and teaching and provide encouragement throughout the week to your congregation. Blogging also adds keyword rich content to your website which vastly increases your search engine rankings, making it more likely that when someone Google Searches for churches in your community, your website will rank at the top of the search results.

Maps & Directions

The standard contact page includes your public contact information (address, phone, email), and a web contact form that allows anyone to send you an email from your website. You may also display a map with dynamic driving directions to your office.

Discussion Forum

Our new forum allows for interaction on unlimited topics. Address budget issues with members of your congregation, start a film discussion with your college group or encourage brainstorming online with community group leaders. Participants can create their own profiles, rate postings and keep track of their own and others' posting stats. Discussions can be searched by terms, topics, date or user.

Multimedia Library

Create a simple or advanced library of sermons or other media resources, with advanced searching capabilities, custom filters and custom fields.

Document Library

Create a simple or advanced library of teaching or other file resources, with advanced searching capabilities, custom filters and custom fields.

News

Help the members of your church stay connected by posting news and announcements online. You can create multiple categories and add images or slideshows. News articles provide more searchable content to help boost your page rankings. Old news items are automatically organized and archived in an easily searchable format.

Articles

Create an in depth topical article library, e.g. Theology, Missions, etc. Article pages include built-in search tools and many customization options.

RSS Syndication

Syndicate your News, Articles, Blogs, FAQs, and Multimedia content.

Prayer Requests

Use the FAQ feature to provide a public or private list of prayer requests and how they have been answered.

Restricted Account Access

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)*.

Staff Profiles

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).

Calendar

List all your upcoming events, sermon series, nursery schedule, small group meetings, and retreats. Choose to display events in calendar format or as a list. Visitors can print or subscribe to the church calendar.

Custom Contact Forms

Request special information from your visitors: solicit feedback, simple registration for events, etc.

Slideshow Gallery

Make slideshows of church and youth group events.

Community Profiles

Create profiles of the communities you serve, with descriptions, community links, service directory, slideshow, video, maps, etc.

My Pages

Gutensite comes with a wide variety of prebuilt content specific templates and functionality, but sometimes you just need to make your own basic page. Start with a blank page, and add text, images, slideshows, multimedia, maps, or whatever. Basic pages can be built with our Visual HTML editor or show off your own HTML and CSS skills by switching to the code view for some special editing.

Promo Modules

Promote upcoming events, latest blog or news article, featured sermon audio/video, prayer requests, community group info and more.

Giving Online

Accept online donations from your website.

Store

Take your bookstore online, or utilize the event registration module when events require pre-payment.*

Intranet

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.