This website is the online presence for St Luke's Church, Tunbridge Wells, which is a parish church within the Diocese of Rochester and part of the Church of England. This website is intended to provide basic 'brochure' level information for those looking to join us for Sunday worship or other activities that we organise, as well as those seeking help with the occasional offices of baptisms, weddings and funerals. It also provides news and up-to-date information regarding current events which our churches either organise or in which we participate.

Update frequency

The site is updated approximately once a week.

Web site maintenance

This web site is operated and run by volunteers from the church community.

Web site design

This is the first iteration of a web presence for our church community.

Our website was built using the specialist proprietary tool, ChurchEdit. The tool started in 2002 with a local church website and has since grown to serve thousands of UK based churches by providing them with easy-to-use websites. The Church of England also partnered with ChurchEdit to create the iKnowChurch church management software.

For St Luke's, ChurchEdit represents an excellent choice for a church website given the specialist support from a team who only help churches run websites. Furthermore, because it is a Content Management System (CMS), it also means that the addition of new material can be made by volunteers without technical expertise, and they can make updates without any fears of 'breaking' the website. On top of the CMS

On top of the CMS, there is a front-end design that should work reasonably well on a range of devices including smartphones, tablet devices and full-screen computers.  This separation of front-end design from content is good practice in web design in that it enables us to make easy changes to the content or design at a later date without having to worry about too much about its knock-on impact. Isolating content from design makes adding or updating things easy while maintaining the design consistency of the site. Isolating design from content simplifies design changes prevents slight design adjustments becoming a full-fledged redesign.