Following the path to creative navigation with custom designs

June 20, 2023 by

Diane Kern

Find your way with inspiring website navigation

When all the parts of a new website come together, creativity truly blossoms as church organizations and eCatholic designers construct concepts that turn excitement into awe-inspiring solutions.

This group of recent custom designs really show how creative you can be with website navigation. The traditional navigation bar with drop down menus isn’t going anywhere as it still does the job; however, notice that many of these sites opted for collapsible navigation and fewer quick links. They also found ways for people to find essential information without guessing their way through homepages of endless content.

Where did they put everything? Read on, click around, and see for yourself…

Catholic Parishes

St. Elizabeth Seton

Carmel, Indiana - setoncarmel.org

What we love: Tabs as a homepage navigation tool

St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church takes visitors directly to what identifies their parish most - right on their homepage! A stunning Homepage Feature Region welcomes with beautiful images and a shape literally points you in the right direction as you scroll down. Soon you land on an inviting Tabs Section filled with community highlights. Tabs Sections are a great way to offer information broken into themes, thus making it a perfect navigation tool as well!

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Catholic Schools

Assumption Catholic School

Hibbing, Minnesota - assumptionhibbing.org

What we love: Buttons and Imagery working together

Imagery tells your story and brings your mission to life. Assumption Catholic School valued both imagery as well as connecting visitors to the right content. Keeping these things in mind, we love how they mixed navigation buttons on their homepage, styling them with custom images as well as bold titles. This fun use of media makes every picture functional by adding beauty as a navigating-feature. The variety of buttons also creates a fun pattern and visual element to their design.

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Nativity of Our Lord Catholic School

Saint Paul, Minnesota - school.nativitystpaul.org

What we love: All the information in one simple space

Nativity of the Lord Catholic School built a beautifully functional homepage spotlighting key information in one simple location. There is no need to scroll (or keep scrolling...) when your homepage actually fits within the screen size of a visitor’s monitor. Custom buttons even feature school images to help save space. All the essentials are within one glance on a desktop view, or a very clean and quick-to-digest mobile experience.

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Catholic Ministries

LaSallian Global Advantage Program

Minneapolis, Minnesota - lasalleglobal.org

What we love: A strong focus on invitation.

LaSallian Global Advantage Program understands that serving the lives of others depends a lot on making connections. Their new custom design website offers a bright homepage layout filled with compelling images of the faces behind their mission. Paired each image, are various styles of sections that focus on directing visitors to connect either by learning more, becoming a member, or receiving updates. Their homepage space was purposefully directs people toward connection.

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If your staff is trying to sort through website content and make sense of it, our custom design team is here to help you find your way. Let’s create something that shares your mission while stepping visitors to all the right places!

Want to see more? Check out these custom design websites featured earlier this year.