We recently polled over 100,000 people and asked: "What's a popular trend in church tech or creativity that you secretly hate?”

The results may surprise you, affirm you, or inspire you. Either way, we’re ready to spill the deets.

There was a whole category’s worth of design trends that church creatives secretly hate. Among them; making everything grainy, using small fonts, minimal graphic design, and blurry photography. While none of these are particularly offensive objectively, these qualms point to a universal truth – there are different strokes for different folks.

A design trend that we’ve identified that no one is arguing with is large photo containers on your church’s website. Photos of real people from your real church serve to instantly build trust with visitors to your site, and give a sense of confidence and context for what to expect on a Sunday morning.

You know it when you see it. The small rural church copies the strategies of the city center megachurch, and it just kind of falls flat. But we get it – what the big church down the street is doing seems to be working, so it might work for us, too.

This is where we draw the line: go ahead and copy creative (short of plagiarism, of course), but don’t copy strategy. Here’s a church website built using Nucleus that we think is hitting all the marks. See something you like? Copy it! But not blindly. Make sure to consider your individual scope, scale, and strategy.

When did we start dropping the vowels in common words? YTH, CRTV, and MDWK were all grievances that people aired. This is a word to the millennials in the room: go ahead, put those letters back where they belong. It’s time.

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