City Gates makes great church websites with a focus on building community. It combines powerful web publishing, ease-of-use, and great design. And it's built just for churches.

City Gates helps churches build great websites. With our simple content management, your church ministry workers will be updating, blogging, podcasting, sharing photos, and more - without any administrative overhead.

City Gates is a hosted content management system, which means that all updates are made online. You can make changes on the go: upload a podcast from the coffeeshop, blog from your iPhone, post photos while you're on the ski trip. City Gates is available when you are.

Simple to update

Keeping your site fresh shouldn't be a hassle. The City Gates content management system makes updating your site easy and - believe it or not - a little bit fun.

Flexible design

We're excited to work with you to create a beautiful design that fits your church. But you've got other options - you can start with one of our templates, or even have your in-house designers do the work. We'll be there to help along the way.

Let's go.

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Powerful Web Publishing.

We've built City Gates around great communication tools, and made them shockingly easy to use. Anyone in your ministry can keep a blog, manage events on a beautiful calendar, start a podcast, and even create gorgeous photo galleries. We've combined these ministry-specific tools with church-wide publishing, like sermon audio and notes.

It's all controlled by our elegant and easy-to-use web-based content management system, which we've built just for churches.

Don't take our word for it.

But you don't have to take our word for it - read testimonials from City Gates users, see the full features list, try out the demo, see a few sample designs, or contact us to get started.

Communities are built at the City Gates.

Your church members already connect with each other online - why doesn't your website help them? City Gates desires to help bring people together, and that's why we've built community-focused features right into every site.

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Comment conversations

That's why we've built community-focused features right into the City Gates site management tool. Users can comment on nearly every part of the site, and continue the kind of life-changing discussions that start on Sundays.

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Simple Subscriptions

Users can also subscribe to parts of your site through RSS, a syndication method that delivers your web content - blogs, photos, podcasts, whatever - directly to the user. Podcasts are automatically integrated with iTunes, too.

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Ready to find out more? Get in touch with us and let's talk about your community.

Refreshing Design

Your church does amazing work, right? Your website should reflect that. With City Gates, your design options are unlimited. We'll work with you directly to handcraft a look and feel that reflects your church's unique vision, and communicates your church's unique personality. Our team has worked with big and small churches, but our design background is in the corporate world, doing web and product design for clients like Apple, BMW, IBM, Mini, Volvo, and universities like UCSD and KU. Check out a few of the great designs we've developed for churches here, or see more on the designs page.

You've got options

We'd love to work with you directly to come up with a stunning new design for your church, but you've got more options. You can also start with a template, or save cost and do it in-house.

Built Just for Churches

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.

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Sermons & Series

There's more than just sermon podcasting here - City Gates has simple, built-in ways to showcase a sermon series or specific talk. Upload images and descriptions of each sermon, series, or service, and include descriptions or teasers about what's coming up. Simply upload your notes, audio or video after the sermon, and it'll be automatically integrated into your podcasts and archives.

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Treat ministry workers like rock stars

We know your ministry workers pour their hearts into what they do, which is why we've given every ministry or group easy access to powerful web publishing tools. Tools like a blog, event calendar, photo gallery, podcast, uploads and extra pages. It all comes together on the ministry's homepage, which they can customize to suit their needs.

Ready to find out more? Get in touch and let's talk about your church.

Made by real people

City Gates is built and maintained by Nathan Clark and Matt Kirkland, web designer-developers in San Diego. When you work with City Gates, you'll be working with people that care about the success of your ministry.

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We built City Gates for our churches.

City Gates started as a project to make our own church websites better - churches we've grown up in and been a part of for years. We built an easy-to-use content management system, so ministry workers could use the church website as a way to strengthen their community, and updating the site became super-easy. We added smart ways to aggregate the site's data - so site visitors could get a simple birds-eye view of what's going on at church. The project went so well, we decided to share it. We think every church should have a first-class website - and we're committed to making that happen.

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Find out more about us, or contact us to start your site.