New Library Website

I see my sarcasm is wasted here.

so moving on...


The cost of a web site is about twenty quid. The ongoing costs vary but could be a couple of hundred pounds a year to get it hosted, unless you know someone in the council or some other big public body that already has a web presence, then you could just get it put on their servers for free.

The real costs are for manpower to create the pages and scripts and content that will feature in your nice shiny website.
If it is just a list of books then you wouldn't think it would cost much and any decent typist could bang it in in a few weeks.
If it is highly graphical with masses of useful content such as readable books, searchable archives and up to date literary interests then it could consume thousands of man hours of labour. Scanning of files and books etc is a very time consuming job.

So which sort is it?
My experience of library websites leads me to thinking it will be a useless list of what the library holds with no active content.

Yes he is

Perhaps I went too far when I described the second most beautiful building in Birmingham as "Pretty"
Clearly it isn't a patch on the old library in the looks department, but it has to be said that it promises to be most pleasant on the eye.
I can't wait until they take all that funny looking scaffolding down and we get a proper look at it.


The lady appears to be so beside herself over my earlier remarks that she has resorted to over quoting herself.

Quote: Voltman wrote in post #10

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Perhaps I went too far when I described the second most beautiful building in Birmingham as "Pretty"
Clearly it isn't a patch on the old library in the looks department, but it has to be said that it promises to be most pleasant on the eye.
I can't wait until they take all that funny looking scaffolding down and we get a proper look at it.


The lady appears to be so beside herself over my earlier remarks that she has resorted to over quoting herself.

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