> Sorry to jump in with an OT request, but our little village is looking to
> replace its website. The current one is home-grown over many years but
> unmaintainable (and the guy who does it can't do it for much longer).
> Anyone have any experience of a simple/cheap template for a
> village/church/parish/social-club who can point me in the right direction?
Yes! I can tell you what the trend is right now. Facebook. No,
seriously! Facebook Pages have become the new normal in websites for
village/church/parish/social-club use.
My wife and I are involved in social-media presence for multiple
organizations and we're watching the almost total demise of the
website for this type of use. You can make the "site" on Facebook
public in a way that it's visible for non-Facebook users (all three of
them) and search engines. Depending on which entity it is we're
dealing with, we're seeing between 75% and 95% of the activity on the
Facebook Pages, and not the websites. Same content, same everything.
Actually, in one case, the website gets almost zero traffic--it's all
Facebook and Twitter. We only keep the domain because of email
addresses.
The 75% site is only that high because of legacy content.
AG Schnozz
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