Websites are passé a 90s thing. Blogs are cheaper, more efficient and easier for people to use

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People are always telling me they are going to put up a website and I ask Why?

Why would anyone put up a website? They are costly to build and even more costly to maintain.

McMaster University is complaining that they lost their $100,000 grant and now the CanChild website will go down.

The site provides information on children with disabilities. It gets 4,000 hits a week, That’s not a high volume by any stretch.

That seems like about right to maintain a decent website; however, they could get a blog for free. Yes free. Blogger or WordPress would host a blog for them gratis.

As for design, there are hundreds of free website templates in WordPress.

Who blogs these days? Everybody blogs. The Washington Post is using a WordPress blog engine for its newspaper.

People like blogs. They are easy to set-up and maintain, especially if you let WordPress host it. They will do all the site maintenance.

People like to read blogs because you can read the newest stories from top to bottom.  Usually they are interactive and people get to make comments.

Several years ago the PEI Council of the Disabled was bragging their Executive Director was a genius and spent a year designing their website. It looks like something from 1995. Ugly.

They should get a blog and spend their website development budget on people with disabilities.

Update – PEI Council of the Disabled  of People With Disabilities got a new name and a new website. The website works but the name is too long – PEI Council of People of People With Disabilities. Just saying.