How to improve this website?

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How to improve this website?

Postby sarah on Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:53 pm

Your ideas would be very welcome!

I would love to hear your feedback on the http://www.bishopsteignton.org.uk website.

If you have any ideas for content, or additional functions (such as this chat forum) you would like to see included, then please let me know, and I will see what I can do!

I look forward to your replies.
:)
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Re: How to improve this website?

Postby Spinnacre on Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:33 pm

2 Things I that have noticed, the first, being small and insignificant is that the site doesn't have a favicon.ico icon (favicon). I really doesn't matter at all except for the poor people that have tons of bookmarks. It might help a few users to find it quicker. Don't know what you may use for it, the images are about 20-40 pixels each, so you won't be able to fit any photos/maps in, so a capital B may be the only hopeful idea. Save it for a day when you have nothing to do!

The next is that the site (I think) is build of themed HTML pages. Have you considered using a PHP content management system. That way, you won't have to re-upload the pages when you add news e.t.c. You will be able to edit the whole site in a fashion rather like posting a message on the forums.
Its a big step, but if you have to update it quite a lot, it is definitely worthwhile!
I would recommend something like http://wordpress.org/ but if you decide to try it, don't forget to backup everything!
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Re: How to improve this website?

Postby sarah on Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:40 am

Thanks for the feedback Spinnacre. I am intending to replace the html pages with php at some point, for the reason you mentioned, but have held off replacing pages so far as it will take some time to complete and I want to make sure that indexing of the site on the main search engines is not impacted now that they have picked up the current HTML versions of the pages. I will also look into adding a favicon when I next get some time to work on the site.

Thanks again!
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Re: How to improve this website?

Postby wshaw on Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:19 pm

This is a great initiative. Congratulations.
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