City Gates isn't a cookie-cutter web solution - it's designed and built just for churches. We started with our own experience working with ministry, and sat down with real users to figure out what makes a church website great. See what else we did to make it just for churches.
If you were to hire a web developer to build your church a website with all of the features City Gates offers, it would cost you tens-of-thousands of dollars, and would cost more any time you wanted to make a change. By opening wide the City Gates, we are able to distribute this cost across multiple churches. City Gates is able to offer you the highest quality of website at the lowest cost.
We have seen the current state of church websites. We know they are a hassle. We know nobody understands how to manage them. We know that most churches rely heavily on a volunteer to update their website. We want to change that.
Our goal from the beginning has been to make City Gates easy enough for anyone to use (we test this on our moms). We want everyone from the Senior Pastor to the Youth Ministry Intern to be able to add value to your church website. If you find something confusing, let us know (no… seriously! Let us know!), and we will do everything we can to make it more clear.
City Gates is a work in progress. We are constantly trying new things that could make your website better. You won't need a new website in three, five, or even ten years. City Gates is going to grow with your church and with new technologies.
City Gates is built and maintained by great folks. When you work with City Gates, you'll be working with people that care about the success of your ministry.