[Bradford] Fw: Website Construction

Paul Colley pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Apr 14 14:59:45 UTC 2013 

Thanks to David/John/Dick. I shall pass on that the consensus is DIY with Wordpress. My 'fear' is that they will go somewhere like Electroville and throw money at it unnecessarily, but hey ho...

Cheers

Paul.



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> From: Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com>
>To: John McLear <john at mclear.co.uk> 
>Cc: David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>; Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>; BradLUG <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
>Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013, 14:44
>Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
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>While I like Wordpress my +1 goes to blogger
>As it's free to have a domain name pointed to your blog once you have paid for it from any provide and you can edit the html to your heart's desire
>To achive the look you wish, plus you can embed code in posts and "widgets" etc
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>On 11 April 2013 10:48, John McLear <john at mclear.co.uk> wrote:
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>+1 for Wordpress.com
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>>Things you can't do
>>No Embed so no embedding primarywall, primarypad, wordle, voki etc. [Excludes youtube and vimeo]
>>No XMLRPC so no ability to use mobile apps such as classdroid.
>>You can’t use your own domain IE myschoolblog.com
>>You can’t heavily modify themes so changing the layout of your blog can be difficult.
>>No plugin uploads so you can’t access the millions of plugins available in the wordpress Codex.
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>>Things you can..
>>No need to worry about growth, wordpress.com can handle millions of requests per second.
>>No need to worry about upgrades or updates.
>>Preview new versions of WordPress.
>>All of your data is backed up and protected for you.
>>Comes pre-loaded with a spam filter.
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>>Shamelessly stolen from: http://mclear.co.uk/2011/09/03/wordpress-com-vs-primaryblogger-vs-self-hosted/ 
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>>John McLear
>>McLear Ltd
>>Etherpad Foundation
>>Primary Technology Ltd
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>>> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:30:15 +0100
>>> From: david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk
>>> To: pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk
>>> CC: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk
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>>> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
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>>> My advice would be for them to look at Wordpress.com
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>>> 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.
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>>> Add in something like google calendar for their events and they'd
>>> basically have the BradLIUG site!
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>>> 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
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>>> > 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
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>>> > Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
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>>> > Here is the response:
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>>> > 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
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>>> >
>>> > 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
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>>> > Some thoughts.
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>>> > 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
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>>> >> Received the following enquiry from a colleague today.
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>>> >> 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?
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>>> >> Said I certainly can recommend or signpost - but that it will be
>>> >> difficult to quote without further info.
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>>> >> 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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