[Bradford] Fw: Website Construction

[David Carpenter]

My advice would be for them to look at Wordpress.com

Their current site is not very complicated and would transfer via copy
and paste quickly.

A domain can be bought easily at an independent supplier, or through
wordpress.com. (it then costs $10 a year to 'map' the domain to
wordpress.com software, otherwise the hosting costs are zero)

If they out grow the site, they would then be on a portable platform
where they can take it onto their own servers in future.

Add in something like google calendar for their events and they'd
basically have the BradLIUG site!

They may need some help to achieve this, and with any project like
this is worth working out what the capacity is within the organisation
to cope with their website, but in my experience Wordpress is picked
up quite quickly be people and is quite easy to look after.

Cheers
David

On 10 April 2013 15:29, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This is what the Society in question has at present
>
> http://www.communigate.co.uk/brad/standrewssocietybradford/
>
> Constructors of Scottish heritage will be looked upon favourably, I imagine.
>
> P.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
> Cc: BradLUG <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 14:26
>
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
>
> Here is the response:
>
> Do they want help:
> ·         to obtain a domain name   Yes
> ·         to host a website  No
> ·         to set up their own website  Yes
> ·         to create a website from scratch  Preferably
> ·         to create a website using templates  Possibly
> ·         to create a website using a content management system  ??
> ·         primarily to provide information  Yes
> ·         primarily to interact with people, whether their own volunteers or
> the wider community?   Eventually yes
>
>
> We only need ball park figures initially and maybe a look at someone’s
> previous work.
>
> Don't know how helpful that is but it's a start.
>
> If anyone is interested in throwing their hat in the ring (or recommending
> someone) please let me know asap.
>
> P.
>
> ________________________________
> From: John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
> To: Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: BradLUG <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 21:19
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
>
> Some thoughts.
>
> Do they want help:
> to obtain a domain name
> to host a website
> to set up their own website
> to create a website from scratch
> to create a website using templates
> to create a website using a content management system
> primarily to provide information
> primarily to interact with people, whether their own volunteers or the
> wider community?
>
> John
> --
> On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 20:48 +0100, Paul Colley wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>>
>> Received the following enquiry from a colleague today.
>>
>>
>> I’m involved with a local Society that is looking to create a new
>> website and domain.  Can you recommend any people that might be able
>> to undertake this – we are looking to get quotes?
>>
>>
>>
>> Said I certainly can recommend or signpost - but that it will be
>> difficult to quote without further info.
>>
>>
>> Anybody potentially interested? Anyone willing to suggest basic
>> questions that would need to be answered in order to come up with an
>> offer?
>>
>>
>> Paul
>>
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