Thanks Ken. That’s an interesting idea. I’m going to have to poke around a
bit to see if we can do a few things like a calendar and integration with
Google maps. I’m also interested how to provide access to FB-deniers - and
maybe email subscribers.
Now to discuss with “the committee “...
Many thanks
Jez
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 19:59, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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