Following my question on the list referring to Jakob Nielsen's
suggestion that 'As a rule of thumb, the annual maintenance budget for a
website should be about the same as the initial cost of building the
site, with 50 percent as an absolute minimum.' I received responses from
Ian Edelman, John Faithfull and Julian Blom
The salient points for me were that
1. The cash cost of maintaining your website may not be high but for a
'medium sized' website (I can't quantify this unfortunately) the full
time staffing requirement could be 2-4 weeks per month.
2. The cash cost of setting up the website may not be a good starting
point as you can actually set up a website very cheaply in cash terms.
3, Use of a template based system (as with Lotus Notes) may allow
curators or admin staff to feed content in - an acting 'web controller'
should have responsibility for actually publishing the information to
the web.
Iain
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Iain Watson
Senior Curator
Tyne and Wear Museums
Hancock Museum
Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4PT
T. 0191 2226878
F. 0191 2226753
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