Furburger
RWS phoned this morning to ask if I could remove the HOur Bank charity’s website that I designed two years ago. Apparently, users have complained that when searching for said organisation, search engines are displaying pages on my webspace as the first dozen results.
Now, the only reason I left the site on my webspace was to demonstrate to those at HOur Bank how the website would work. But once I’d finished the site it just sat there for ages and nobody did anything with it. Then someone emailed out of the blue a year or so later saying that one of the contact details had changed.
Now to me, this sounded as if they were in fact using my site, but running it off of my long-winded NTL URL as opposed to their own server.
Anyway, during communications with RWS today, I learnt of the charity’s new policy disallowing a dedicated site. This is, quite frankly, an utterly stupid policy - especially considering they know that people are searching for them on the ‘net. And surely then, if my site is their only ‘official’ online presence, taking it down makes even less sense.