Web site specificity: opinions? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Greg Nelson (ghnmercury.pgt.com) | |
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:28:51 -0800 (PST) |
There has been a perennial debate in our community. Drawn in the most extreme terms: some want a minimal web site which just gives people contact information and gets them to talk to us in person; others want a maximal web site with pages about everything anyone could ever want to know about us. We have brought up a new web site for our community that everyone agrees looks lovely, but it moves toward the minimal in content. At the most recent meeting, a visitor who might be interested in membership observed that she had seen both the old and the new web sites. The old web site had lots of detailed information about policies; the new web site has much less of this. In her opinion, she wouldn't have even bothered contacting us if she didn't already have some information about our policies. (Hearing this, two other prospective members jumped in and agreed.) Our web committee has mixed feelings now. Keeping more information on the web makes it harder to maintain (as policies or other information changes) and potentially makes the site harder to navigate, less streamlined, less "pretty", etc. On the other hand, if we fail to reach out to interested parties because they can't find out enough from our web site, then is the web site really doing its job? Can anyone offer their own experiences of either (a) what has worked best for your community or (b) what you would be looking for as a prospective resident? Thank you, Greg Nelson email: terramantra [at] gmail.com White Hawk Ecovillage phone: 607-273-2576 Ithaca, NY 14850 web: www.whitehawk.org
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