Updating your website – an issue for everyone
As the new government takes its place, the BBC reports, there is a frenetic dash to update the official Whitehall website.
Any owner of a website will be well aware of how even the most innocuous-seeming content can date. It seemed like such a good idea to announce that special promotion tied into the World Cup, didn’t it? But nothing beats the feeling of foolishness when you come across a page several months after the championship has ended, and realise you forgot to remove it.
What with turnover of personnel (an issue the government knows keenly), discontinuation of stock or the arrival of new lines, there’s always something that needs updating on a website, and that’s before you’ve even considered the matter of keeping the homepage fresh with news or up-to-the-minute content.
For many, the answer is to outsource – and we’d be happy to talk to you about that. In the meantime, if you do come across a dusty-looking page that should have been updated months ago, take heart: the government are probably sharing the very same experience.
