Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Web site specificity: opinions?

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

Those interested in website design (not styling) might be interested in 
useit.com

WT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Nelson" <ghn [at] mercury.pgt.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:28 AM
Subject: [C-L]_ Web site specificity: opinions?


> 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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