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The government is committed to having all public services accessible on-line, and Local Councils have their part to play. You might not want to go as far as having an on-line booking system for the bouncy frog in the play area, but there is a lot that can be accomplished to keep your residents informed and in contact. A web site doesn't have to be complicated or costly, in fact you can try one out for next to nothing. If you want to go a step further that will start to cost money. Of course, you get what you pay for, but it should be possible to run a website for about £300 a year. For that sort of money, you would be a 'dot-gov' site. Instead of being yourname at tesco.net, or whatever, you would be yourname.gov.uk. If you are a Parish or Town Council, the best way of ensuring that aura of reliability is to become a .gov website. It costs a little bit more, but it ensures that your information has an 'official' feel to it. By all means make your site friendly and approachable, but when it appears on a .gov website, it is clearly the official communication of the parish council. One of the most serious criticisms of information on the Internet is that much of it is poor quality and unreliable. Users wonder which information, if any, they can trust. Make sure they can trust yours. In summary You can set-up a basic website for next to nothing hosting a website will cost you up to £16 a month having LetchWood design a website for you will cost between £200 and £500 managing the content of a website will cost £30 a month Take a look at the tabs on the left to find-out
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One final point for contributors to websites. If you are emailing something to your editor, please do not format it. Ideally, they will want to get a plain text version; no italics, no indents, no bullets, and above all no tables. Most formatting that you put on will only have to come off again to get it into the web page. All the formatting can be added when the website is created. If the format is vital to the content of the page then send a sketch or some notes about how it is to look.
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