About The Church Web Review

The Church Web Review is an independent magazine about church websites. It covers the design, accessibility, tools and content of the sites congregations publish, written in the third person for the volunteer webmasters, communication teams and pastors who keep them. The magazine sells nothing, ranks no vendors and answers to no denomination.

What the magazine covers

Four sections carry the work. Design and home pages holds the home page checklist, the design dos and don'ts, and the staged makeover plan. Accessibility serves the members most sites lock out: blind and low vision readers, deaf and hard of hearing members, color blind visitors, and the older members who use church sites most and complain least. Tools, hosting and giving walks the platform, hosting, streaming and giving decisions, with their costs and their exits. Writing and local search keeps the words current and the congregation findable.

How the guides are written

Each guide answers a question a real team asks on a real Monday, ends with a concrete first step, and cites the standing references it leans on: the Web Accessibility Initiative for accessibility, the plain language discipline for writing, the IRS charitable rules for giving, the platform documentation for mechanics. The magazine writes about vendors, platforms and organizations in the third person, as subjects rather than partners, and holds no affiliate or advertising relationship with any of them.

The domain's earlier life

This domain published one of the early church webmaster resources, with design checklists, an accessibility library organized by disability, a CMS guide and an active forum, before going quiet and eventually lapsing. The magazine that lives here now is a new publication on the same subject; it reuses no content from the earlier site and claims no connection to it. It does keep a few of the old addresses alive, among them the accessibility guide and the design dos and don'ts, because the questions those pages answered have not aged.

Editorial voice

The magazine writes as a publication, never as a congregation and never as "we" claiming a pew. Guides use the third person, expanded vocabulary, full dates, and the restrained design they recommend. Corrections are welcome and acknowledged; the contact page carries the address.

Who edits the site

The Church Web Review editorial team edits the magazine. The site is a static publication: pages are written, reviewed and published in batches, and older guides are revised in place with their structure intact. The legal notice holds the editor and hosting details, and the legal notice page states them in full.