What sets eCatholic apart from other Catholic website design companies? Sure, we offer tons of great features (see below) that Catholic parishes, dioceses, schools, and ministries need for a dynamic web presence, but here are the three principles that make us unique:
Beautiful DesignsOur beautiful, professional designs are created by Catholics, for Catholics, to positively reflect both your ministry and the beauty of the Church.
Easy to UpdateYou will not find an easier, more intuitive solution for updating your website. You can literally create your site in a matter of minutes.
Priced for MinistryWith eCatholic, you get an unbelievable website for an amazing price. With three packages to choose from, we have a solution to fit your needs.
You also will not find better customer support anywhere. Our team is here to serve you so you can more effectively serve the Church! But don't just take our word for it. Hear from our happy customers and then experience eCatholic for yourself:
Our themes are both beautiful and intuitive. Your website will look great and your visitors will love using it. With new themes being developed each month, you can change out your design at anytime.
Each theme comes in a variety of color schemes. If you find a theme that you love but you need further customization, just let us know. Our goal is for your site to reflect your unique identity.
In addition to our wide selection of themes, we also offer custom design. With a custom design, we work closely with you to create a design specific for your parish, school, or ministry.
All of our themes are cross browser / cross platform. What does that mean? Simply that your website will look great on PC, Mac, or mobile device - in any browser.
We offer several home page layouts that are quick and easy to update using our drag-n-drop module functionality.
Many of our themes allow you to customize your website with graphic (or flash) banners. We offer a wide variety of banners for your site, or you can upload your own.
Drag-n-drop to reorder pages, rearrange home page modules, and sort various page elements. It's quick, easy, and fun.
No more "back end" systems. When you login, you edit your website as you see it. Point, click, and edit. It's that simple.
There is no need to learn HTML or CSS (or to even know what that means). Our CMS is so easy to use that even a..... nevermind, you get the point.
Login to your website from any computer (or mobile device), anytime, anywhere, and update your website in a matter of minutes.
When you make changes to your website, they are saved immediately and posted in real-time. No more waiting for the "web guy" to make your changes for you.
Want to embed HTML, javascript, videos, or other plugins? No problem. With eCatholic, you are in control.
All of our websites are built to be search engine optimized. All of your content is searchable by search engines and your pages include description and keyword meta tags.
Although the meta tags of each page on your website are automatically updated with the page title, you also have the option to customize the description and keywords yourself.
All of our websites include a built-in search engine that allows your visitors to search for any pages, events, news, and other content that you create on your website.
Quickly and easily add, edit, and delete pages from your website.
Creating custom online forms for your visitors to submit has never been easier.
Create events on any page and they are automatically added to your website's master calendar.
Create News and/or Blogs, schedule them to turn on/off, and allow visitors to post comments.
Upload pictures and create photo albums / slideshows. Your pictures are automatically optimized upon upload.
Create links to other websites or resources. It's super easy.
Quickly and easily upload the church bulletin each week. Point, click, upload.
Post flyers, permission slips, and other documents for download.
Similar to the advertising on the back of your church bulletin, this feature allows you to earn money for your parish.
Sell products or services online, or collect donations, with our built-in PayPal™ Integration System. You must set-up a PayPal™ business account to utilize the built-in online store. Sample Online Store
Post the parishes and schools in your Diocese and allow visitors to search for parishes, schools, Mass times, Confession times, and Eucharistic Adoration times (with integrated Google Map). Learn More
We have made it easy to embed Google Analytics into your website - a powerful tool for tracking the traffic on your website.
Allow visitors to easily share pages from your website on Facebook, Twitter, and much more (built-in plugin for ShareThis and AddThis).
Allow visitors to subscribe to RSS feeds of your events and/or news. Visitors can subscribe to RSS feeds for a given page or site-wide.
We have made it is easy to embed video (or other streaming or dynamic content) into your website.
Add rich video to your website by embeding videos that you upload to Vimeo, YouTube, or other streaming services.
Easily embed flockNote, a custom registration and communication tool that takes care of your bulk emailing, text messaging, phone calling, social media and more - all from one place.
All of our websites are hosted on our powerful, dedicated servers in a secure, managed data center. Your website is in good hands.
All of our servers are configured with RAID which means that your website is automatically being backed up constantly. We also perform nightly back-ups.
All of the code, queries, and databases that power your website are highly optimized for maximum performance. In other words, your website will load fast.
When you upload pictures to your website, they are automatically optimzed to a web-friendly size. This means faster load times.
Some pages on your website might need to be private. Password-protect any page(s) to limit access only select visitors.
Set-up unlimited administrators and contributors for your website. For contributors, you choose which pages they are allowed to edit.
Want to keep track of all changes made to your website by your administrators and contributors? Just enable the built-in "E-mail Confirmation System".
Set-up e-mail accounts for your staff that are unique to your domain name (yourname@yourwebsite.com). Up to 50 e-mail accounts and 250 MB of total space.
No more waiting weeks (or even months) for your website to be built. Start editing your beautiful new website today!
When you contact us, you will talk with us. We do not outsource our relationships with our customers.
You will not find better customer service. Period. Our goal is to provide you with excellent service and support.
Catholics serving Catholics. That's us. We are here to serve you. Just let us know how we can help.
