In response to user feedback….

Posted by Nick on November 15, 2011

One of the great things that we like is to get feedback from people who visit the CCI website about things that can be improved, or are not working, or ideas and suggestions.

One of the most frequent comments received is that the site didn’t show up very well in smaller display screens – e.g. a laptop or notebook. So while I (Nick) do actually design on a great big 24″ screen, I have been playing around to see how we might do this better to take into account all these different size displays. And then Tim Hyde, a Baptist Minister in the UK – who also happens to run a web ministry, designing wordpress themes particularly for churches, launched a theme called XI. Very trendy name I know . However it’s biggest feature was that it automatically resizes itself (images, texts, boxes, pretty much everything) depending on what screen the website is being view on – even down to mobiles and iBooks.

So after testing it out on a couple of other church sites I have been building I decided to implement this on the CCI website and, so far, I am very pleased with the results and hope that those of you who visit the site regularly will send us your feedback if you have any complaints, criticisms, ideas or other suggestions of how we might improve things – we just want to make our site as good as it can be for you.

And just for your information, here’s a few stats from the website (some of which are mind blowing!) – the last time we shared anything about our website visitors was back in August, so these figures are from 1 August to today:

Almost 1,500 visitors to the website from 86 countries since 1 August
45% of those were unique (first time) visitors to the CCI website.
Over 60% of visitors to the site are reading Bill’s blog (kewl!)
The English version of Small Groups Development was downloaded 260 times (making almost 790 downloads this year)
The Russian version of the Small Groups Development manual has been downloaded 160 times since it was put on the site – that is just amazing!

And on our facebook page, we have had over 2,400 visitors since the page was launched on October 18 – unbelievable. Even though we only have around 40 people who ‘like’ us, it’s amazing that so many people have found that little page on FB and are finding our website from there.

These website statistics are very encouraging to us (me as well as Bill and Beryl) and confirm – like we didn’t already know – that we are not in control of how CCI’s work and materials will be used by God. If we only measured the impact of this website by the number of people who contacted us, or who had signed up for the blog, or are on our mailing list, or who “LIKE” our FB page – we could easily be disappointed, or upset or discouraged. But the fact that we can see that what we are sharing and have to say is being read by many many more people than we could have imagined is just such a wonderful blessing and encouragement – and we especially want to really thank ALL OF YOU who visit the site regularly, share posts and articles with your friends, comment on posts and give us feedback. Thank you, sincerely.

And so, in case this is your first visit, or you haven’t yet connected with us to receive regular updates… a couple of unabashed plugs!

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How is our website doing?

Posted by Nick on August 10, 2011

One of our ministry goals is to make ourselves (CCI) – through the internet and on our website – as widely available as possible, and also to make whatever resources that we produce freely available to anybody who wants them, free of charge and with ‘no strings attached’.

And so I am SOOOOOO excited to share some simple facts about how well our website has been doing since 1 January 2011, and how it is reaching people in places that we never expected.

12,000+ page views
2,928 visitors
56% were NEW visitors (meaning 44% came back for another look!)
Visitors came from from 92 countries (including South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Nepal, Palestine, Singapore, Switzterland, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji)
27% of our visitors viewed our website in a language OTHER than English
On average each visitor stayed on our website for 4m 34s – which is very good! Games sites get over 10m, news sites get around 2 minutes!

The reason why social networks can be important…

700+ visitors came to our website from linkedin.
450+ visitors came to our site from our facebook page.

On January 28, 720 people visited our website – on one day!!!

Downloads

Small Groups Development Manual was downloaded 526 times
Growing up into His likeness was downloaded 314 times

What is extra exciting is that we have 45 people who are regular subscribers – that is, who have signed up to receive our blog posts and other updates in their email. If you are reading this and would like to receive our blog posts directly in your inbox, just click here.

Thank you everyone for visiting the CCI website – and thank you Lord!!!

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What we believe

Posted by Bill on July 11, 2010

Don’t know why we didn’t think of it before but we have added a statement of faith (simply The Apostles Creed, The Great Commandment and the Great Commission) under the ‘About CCI’ menu item – just so that there will be no doubts in anyone’s minds about what we believe!

Read it here.