Church Cowboy Church Website Template
Saddle Creek
A site for a cowboy church that meets in a covered arena outside Weatherford. It is written for people who have not been inside a church in years and want to know, before they turn in at the gate, that their boots, their truck and their past will not be a problem.
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- Built for
- Ranch hands, ropers, barrel-racing families, truckers and retirees in Parker County, plus the townsfolk who come for the brisket and stay.
- Navigation
- Classic top bar. Logo left, pages right, one action. Familiar to every visitor.
Names, photos, times and stories in this template are sample content. Your version uses your own words, photos and branding.
Why it looks this way.
- Typography
Besley is a Clarendon, the letterform of saddle-shop signs, feed-store calendars and county fair posters, set heavy at 800 with its italic for the occasional aside. Libre Franklin carries the body because Franklin Gothic was Clarendon's partner on every handbill and newspaper ad, and it stays plain at phone sizes. Barlow Condensed handles labels and times like the numbers stencilled on a trailer gate.
- Besley headlines
- Libre Franklin body text
- Barlow Condensed labels
- Color
The brown is latigo leather, the color of a saddle that has been oiled for twenty years. The blue is faded denim and the steel of a stock tank, and the background is caliche dust, the pale road base of every county road out here. At night the palette turns to a lit barn: warm tan on near-black, with the denim lifted so it still reads.
- Page
#ECE6DA - Cards
#F8F4EC - Text
#271C14 - Brand
#7A3A1A - Accent
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- Page
- Layout
A classic top bar, because the people this church serves did not grow up on websites and should not have to learn one. Six plainly named pages and one action, Find the arena, always top right. The double rules and outlined cards borrow from rodeo programs and sale-barn catalogues.
Pages: Home, Sundays, The Arena, Baptisms, Hay Fund, The Outfit
- Hero
The first screen is a photograph with no words on it at all, cowboys resting along a fence, with the headline set underneath like a caption and the place and time hanging in the margin. It says what this church is before it says anything about church, which is the whole point for someone sitting in the truck deciding whether to go in.
- Calls to action
Find the arena is the main action, because the hardest part for a newcomer is a gravel turn-off with no steeple. The others are just as literal: See arena nights, Talk to Clint about baptism, Ask for hay or help, Give to the Hay Fund. Nobody here would say plan your visit.
- Photography
Working ranch photography: roping in a dusty pen, riders crossing a pond at golden hour, a saddled horse tied at the rail. Portraits are weathered and unposed. We avoided anything that looks like a costume or a theme park, because the congregation would spot it in a second.
- Accessibility
Body text is 17px with generous line spacing and every color pair passes 4.5:1 in both themes. Times are given as plain text, never only in images, and the visit page spells out ramps, golf-cart shuttles and the step-free path from the lot, because a lot of this congregation is past seventy or has been thrown off a horse.
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