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From: "paul" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 12:38 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 103, Issue 10
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:10:33 +0100 From: "Geoff
Wicks"<[email protected]> To: "ql-users"<[email protected]>
Subject: [Ql-Users] Websites
The bill for the current 12 months of my website came to ?47.84. I
use a commercial host that many small businesses and organisations
use and I get a good service.
That website that, by universal acclaim, is the best QL website ever
is run more cheaply than I run mine. The host is Tony Firshman and I
understand the owner of the site gets a good service from him.
Last year Quanta spent ?346 on its website, which is more than seven
times what I am paying.
Could someone please explain to me what Quanta is getting for this
money that I am not getting. And why, after spending so much members'
money, the Quanta website, apart from the news section, appears to
have been at a complete still stand for about 18 months,
Best wishes,
Geoff
1. Annual Cost = Fiscal responsibility
1.1 Are they by some reason avoiding a perceived conflict by Not Using his
service?
2. Web Site maintenance = SOMEONE has to pay attention to it. Probably
would be a GOOD place to visit if it had an 'Editor' type that saw to its
timeliness of news and feature updating. NOT just checking to see that it
still works.
2.1 There are free software programs that can aid in revising/editing a
web page IF someone wished to learn how to use it AND had an interest in
doing so. Ergo Degree of commitment??
2.2 Hay, this seems like a 'sit-down' job, how hard would it be to get
someone to do it that is still associated with QUANTA??
(off mini-soapbox now)
I am glad you have picked up these points because it was precisely what I am
getting at.
There is a consistent history of Quanta websites being relaunched with great
tamtam every two years and then nothing happens. No attempt is made to keep
the site up to date. I have asked many times who was responsible for the
editorial content of the Quanta website and have never yet received an
answer. Usually it's a blank stare as though I had asked the question in the
Ainu dialect of Hokkaido.
I have the impression that the officers think the web master has a magic
wand that can conjure up the content. It is the officers who have to provide
the content and the website failures have been the failures of the officers
and not the web masters,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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