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Town's all singing all dancing website er... for 35 grand?????
(November 21, 2009)WARMINSTER town councillors are looking at three different options
of spending thousands of pounds on updating or replacing their website
on Monday night.
There is some apprehension among those who made the call for this to happen.
Members of the communications committee will have on the table
choices ranging from versions costing around between £5,000 and £10,000
or one at £35,000. This website costs just £5.88 a month to run.
The vfw website has shot past the 3,000 unique visitor figure
since a UK and international flag counter was put on public view in
March.
Steve Dancey, along with co-author Paul Macdonald, argued on their
website right from its start in September 2009 that the internet is a
tool that was being under-used.
'Warminster badly needs its own professionally produced website
designed to secure interest from prospective employers across the globe
- complete with links in Japanese, Russian, Chinese, German and
Spanish,' they wrote.
They argued that the website 'should come under the control of
Warminster town council which should be able to secure match funding
from a wide variety of sources to help finance it.'
"It is an amazing coincidence but the latest new flag to appear is
the Russian Federation," said Paul of their site. "The previous one was
from Vietnam joining others from the far east."
"In the last year there has been a surge in Warminster websites
mostly aimed at the social aspects of the town and very local
commercial activity. The community is linking itself together nicely
through this.
"It is important that we as a town get this next step right or others will extend the huge lead they already have over us."
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