Website Design for Clubs and Specialist Interests
- Club websites require even more careful consideration of certain issues, particularly maintenance, than is generally the case for small businesses. How often have you seen a design, enthusiastically-created, which is out-of-date because the original designer has lost interest and there is no one else with the skills, interest, or enthusiasm to maintain the site?
- Whilst most club websites are designed and maintained by enthusiastic amateurs, larger clubs (or those with a larger budget) generally employ professional web designers and are more similar to small businesses. But even these clubs should still ask themselves two fundamental questions:
- Do you want a website that you can maintain yourself, or are you happy to pay others to do this when required?
- Do you want the website to look as if it's regularly updated, or are you happy for the look to stay unchanged for months, or even years? There is nothing wrong with this approach, but the site should be designed on this basis if it is not to look unmaintained.
- See examples on the Portfolio page. The Simple Website approach can work well for clubs thinking of starting their own website.
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