St Ive Parish Council have given the go-ahead for our own web site. You wouldn't believe how slow the process is. Since we have chosen to go for a proper .gov.uk domain name, our hosting ISP has to be accredited to go through JANET to apply for the domain name. It even has to be approved by The Cabinet Office - very official and grand, but it will take weeks. That does at least give me plenty of time to design the web site.
I've decided to use WordPress as the web site tool. It's very widely used, and will be portable to a new hosting company if necessary. The WordPress theme "Twenty Thirteen" seems to be suited to my KISS policy, (Keep It Simple Stupid), and good for a variety of devices, such as smart phones.
I want to use the web site as an interactive place to communicate, so the blog format of WordPress is perfect to allow parish news to be published and commented on by the readers.
There will also be a place for reference material about the community, the Parish Council, and St Ive Parish generally. I'll be asking for contributions from various local societies to write up the story of the parish.
