Mars Hill Church Project

Published May 29, 2009 by Jade Sokoll

When it comes to church websites, it is vitally important to understand your audience. As a growing church in the Iowa City area, Mars Hill Church needed to produce a user friendly, informative website that would meet the needs of both new visitors and existing members. Our solution: a unique blend of content and functionality matched with a sharp new design.

The home page is organized in a way that provides recently updated content and information all in one place. New visitors can find service information, brief descriptions about the church and its beliefs, and ways to contact the church. Current members can stay up to date with the latest news feed and an events calendar. In addition, anyone can access recent publications or listen to the latest sermon podcasts right from the home page.

In addition to reaching a split audience, the website also needed to be designed for ease of navigation. The information architecture was created to allow all visitors to quickly navigate to the information they need to find.

After launch, the Mars Hill website was featured on several design websites including CSS Beauty and Best Web Gallery.