Why do loads of societies websites not work?

Randomness

if you randomly want to find out something and go to the link in the csc website loads of the webpages are either non-existant or not updated in the last year.

i appreciate it takes alot of time/effort to keep them on the go, is this the problem?

EGaffney

I presume the costs to the society don't exceed the benefit to the society. But then again, I am an economist.

A society website I update gets very little traffic, so it's reasonable to assume that all of them do.

paperclip

I'll tell you why. It's because societies are usually run by rather random people, particularly the smaller ones. Because of this, often the president/secretary/treasurer won't be very computer literate and as such, updating the website is just too much hassle.

Which reminds me---- I need to update the Sign Language Society website! Does anyone know where the netsoc is so I can go in and have a little heart to heart about this with them? Our society is a member of their society, so we get help (so I hear)........

ilovemybrick

www.ducomedy.com
it works.

ApeXaviour

www.duphysoc.org works also, but didn't last year

Small societies where the officers change every year may have little communication between years. I can see easily how this occurs, though I've rarely noticed it. Which socs that you were interested in did this occur?

Dermo

paperclip wrote: »

I'll tell you why. It's because societies are usually run by rather random people, particularly the smaller ones. Because of this, often the president/secretary/treasurer won't be very computer literate and as such, updating the website is just too much hassle.

Which reminds me---- I need to update the Sign Language Society website! Does anyone know where the netsoc is so I can go in and have a little heart to heart about this with them? Our society is a member of their society, so we get help (so I hear)........

we(netsoc) are in Goldsmith Hall at the back of Trinity. if you go in the doors, turn left and go through the door beside the toilets we are the door at the end of that corridor with tentacles sticking out of it. we should be able to help you out with whatever you want, we are moving society websites away from tcdlife all the time because it's too restrictive.

Sleazus

www.thehist.com

It works. With snow and an advent calendar and music that is apparently just a little bit too melancholy...

The website takes a phenomenal amount of time, and there's far too much stuff to log. Plus there's the whole issue of whether a website is just for publicity or also for record-keeping? And then the whole transfer of knowledge between committees. And then there's the traffic thing...

We only get about 200,000 hits a month - and of that very few people actually explore the features we spend our time offering on-line (like recordings, competitions and photos) - and I'd say that we're the high-end of the spectrum. Is it worth it? Meh, I'm kinda proud of it.

BrenC

So is this thread going to turn into people plugging their socs websites? Probably

shay_562

..."turn into"? Did you read Sleazus' post?

BrenC

I didn't, read the first sentence then skipped the rest!

John

CSC's server died last year some time (after a few near death experiences) and any sites hosted on CSC's servers are now gone. DURNS is dead but there is a crappy forum here that is tons of fun and waiting for you all to make insider jokes on.