Websites????

Why would you pay someone ~£30 to watch you swing the club a few times, tell you a few sentences about how to do it differently, then watch you hit some balls untill the 30mins is up? ;)
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£30 for 30 mins?
Wow, I should put my prices up ;)
 
My understanding is that Wordpress is more for blogging. I looked at it last year when I was redevelopiing the web site for my aikido club. It's free, and quite simple to get to grips with, but it depends what you are creating the web site for?

I ended up using Micrsosft Expression to create a basic site for my club. It's fairly clean and crisp, nowt fancy and was fairly easy to put the site together. I would imagine that any costs you incur are going to be for time needed to complete the project.
 
Hi Dodger,

As the owner of a small web design company, I can give you the following information to assit:

Pricing:
Expect to pay between £750 & £1,000 for a reasonable job appropriate to the functionality you describe.

This will cover 1 day of design, 1 day of development and then the remaining suplementary tasks such as planning, copy editing, domain transfer, disability act compliance and hosting.

Students & 1 man bands:
Don't use them. They underquote and consequently underdeliver. They would need to understand web design, development (coding), marketing, copy writing, customer service, hosting (and more) in order to provide a service that will leave you feeling satisfied. What tends to happen is that they underquote, then run out of time for you and stop answering the phone. Alternatively, a bigger and more exciting opportunity comes along and you are forgotten about. There are some great Students / 1 man bands out there, sorry if you are one of them but you are in the minority.

Wordpress:
It's ok, but very restricitve. The interface is very difficult for "non-web" people to feel comfortable with. It can be picked up in a couple of days, but it's also very easy to break your site if you don't know what you are doing. Wordpress sites are also highly vulnerable to security attacks, as a script designed to hack one website can be used to hack thousands. Consequently there are a lot of updates to stay on top of, which can affect whether the plugins work on your website. We find Wordpress is commonly used for full websites by web designers that do not really know how to code properly. It's also more difficult to build out on your website if you tie it in to such a complex framework, making future plans more expensive. Wordpress is first class for blogging however because of it's relationship with Google Blogs, and that's the only time we would recommend implementing it. I should add that if you are doing a self build, it's not a bad option because you can implement functionality you wouldn't otherwise be able to generate.

My best advice is to find a web company you like the look of, then phone a few of the customers on their portfolio to ask about their experience of working with them.

I'll stop short of naming my own company, because I have only posted a few times, and that would look a bit crass, but my number 1 piece of advice:

Don't try to pay less than it costs to make properly, because what you'll get wont be proper, and you'll be redoing it in 12 months.
 
You could get an amateur to build a simple (i.e. cheap) single-page site with the information you've listed, if that's what the club wants. However you only have to look back over past threads on this forum to see how people tend to view clubs that don't put any effort into their websites. The "cheap and cheerful" option could end up backfiring.
 
It's like MSSQL, but not!

More seriously, it's a database, not sure in what context you are asking really. Do you have a more specific question about it, or how you plan to use it?
 
The "cheap and cheerful" option could end up backfiring.
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The flashy expensive option could also have the same effect.
I certainly wouldn't want a club I was a member of lashing out money on an all singing and dancing web site and the course suffering because of it.
Given the choice of spending £1000 on a web-site or a young work experience green keeper for the summer, it's a no brainer for me.
If on the other hand, the club puts up their membership costs by £2 per member to pay for it and everyone's happy then happy days.
Each to their own.
 
MySQL is just a way to store information. If your website has a content management system on it, there is a fair chance that it will use MySQL to store the information, and then a language such as PHP or ASP to communiate with it.

Wordpress also uses MySQL, it's pretty industry standard.
 
The "cheap and cheerful" option could end up backfiring.
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The flashy expensive option could also have the same effect.
I certainly wouldn't want a club I was a member of lashing out money on an all singing and dancing web site and the course suffering because of it.
Given the choice of spending £1000 on a web-site or a young work experience green keeper for the summer, it's a no brainer for me.
If on the other hand, the club puts up their membership costs by £2 per member to pay for it and everyone's happy then happy days.
Each to their own.
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There is little excuse for having a sub-standard website these days and much of the general public will not bother visiting somewhere that has a poor website.

Similarly, if you have a sub-standard course, people won't come to visit that either.

You really need to get it all right these days to compete in a very crowded market.
 
The "cheap and cheerful" option could end up backfiring.
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The flashy expensive option could also have the same effect.
I certainly wouldn't want a club I was a member of lashing out money on an all singing and dancing web site and the course suffering because of it.
Given the choice of spending £1000 on a web-site or a young work experience green keeper for the summer, it's a no brainer for me.
If on the other hand, the club puts up their membership costs by £2 per member to pay for it and everyone's happy then happy days.
Each to their own.
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Or they could attract new members and casual golfers by having a well presented and up to date website ;)

Or they could put the price of mars bars up! :D
 
Bob,I am afraid after doing a quick google of your club I think you may have your priorities the wrong way around! :p
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Tell me about it.
That site was done by a member who is leaving soon.
I am also leaving next month.
Nuff said.
 
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