Re: Websites should be kept up to date, or you shouldn't bother.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Gus ABSOLUTELY DISAGREE! Websites perform many purposes ...notification of changes to events is just one part of it. Having a website up with basic club information and marketing pages is invaluable to all MJ clubs, regardless of size. |
Yeah, but that information doesn't go out of date, so it's not a problem. If you give yearly information, you don't have to update very often. If you give event info on a daily basis, then you really do need to update much more often.
Quote:
|
I'm afraid that some of the peope making these comments appear to have no idea about what its like to try to maintain a small business with limited resources. As with most things in buiness, its the PROCESS that is the issue .. .how do you get from a trigger (finding out that an event has changed) through to a final action of notification.
|
The thing is, it's all about how you set things up (and I don't mean the technology). If you have a website like the Ceroc one, where appearance is really important, and you can search for stuff in your area, and you try to have day-to-day schedules, then that is going to be hard work to keep up. But if you basically have a page of text, then making changes is going to be very quick and easy (and I don't have ANY fancy tools - I use notepad to edit the HTML). And if you only have a local basic list of events, with only occasional stuff that needs changing (i.e. if you always have a Wednesday night, you don't have to change it), then it's really not that onerous.
On the other hand, I haven't updated my webpage (other than uploading dance clips) for about 10 months, so...
Quote:
|
My real-life experince has been that a MINORITYof local dancers refer to the websites. Its bad enough when you email them directly with information that they dont even bother reading ... so dont out any hope of them flocking en-masse to your website to keep a constant check!
|
My impression is that
Lynda's List 
gets visited quite a lot; I certainly use it.
Dave