The Massachusetts Conference has an extensive tutorial called "Creating a Church Website" - we hope to create our own version soon, in the meantime this tutorial has a lot of valuable material. The tutorial contains the following chapters:

1. Getting Started
2. Determining Your Audience
3. Basic Content
4. Beyond the basics I: What is realistic? 
5. Beyond the basics II: Content ideas for reaching newcomers
6. Beyond the basics III: Content ideas to keep them coming back
7. A picture is worth a thousand words
8. Organization is the key to navigation
9. Getting your site hosted
10. Web design software
11. Linking up
12. Bibliography

Webmasters across the UCC share tips, tricks and ideas in our forum.

If your church is opted in to the God is Still Speaking, program then you are eligible for a free web page.

Let's begin by pointing you towards a few free or less expensive web hosting services with relatively easy "WYSIWYG" ("What You See Is What You Get") editors. Here's a short list:

http://forministry.com
http://www.ourchurch.com
http://webmedley.com
http://www.nexo.com/create_church_website

myUCC Online Community
Want to add blogs, groups, photo galleries, videos and more? Register your church for myUCC!

UCC graphics for downloading.

Need help creating a privacy policy for your website? Try this link.

Looking for free web hosting? There is an extensive search engine for those services here.

Want to compare paid hosting services? findmyhosting.com

A very useful resource is the book "Reaching Out in a Networked World: Expressing Your Congregation's Heart and Soul" by Lynne M. Baab (The Alban Institute). Lynne has also written a handy guide to basic website design, which you can download here.

For web browsing the web team prefers Firefox.