How reliable are Nigerian Websites…
I took a stroll to my recharge card vendor to purchase a Multilinks 500 card to load on my phone so that I can connect to the Internet. At the spot, a discussion started about the acquisition of Multilinks by Telkom Ltd, I said that Telkom acquired 51% of Multilinks. I suspected I was wrong, but since I seemed like the most educated on the issue, they let it go.
I rushed home, recharged my account and went to Multilinks site to confirm my opinion. I got this
Multilinks announcements page as at 29 September 2007
How come a lot of Nigerian websites don’t get updated? Its a shame on the companies and we webmasters. We need to take a stand of “showcase” these outdated sites.
Here is Telkom’s news item about the acquisition.
Its very hard for some companies to update their websites. This is due to the fact that some of them don’t know the implication or don’t want to pay for the services. As a webmaster, when approaching them, they will tell you alot story when you offer to manager their sites.
Mutiu
2 Oct 07 at 12:30 pm
At this age and stage, we really should not be making excuses for Nigerian companies. After all, a lot of their operations are copied from foreign companies, why cant they copy the culture of updating their contents.
If you look at the Multilinks page, the content is dynamic, it is not just updated
Oladipo MD
2 Oct 07 at 1:28 pm
There are no excuses on this issue of updating websites, especially those that offers services that needs new information.
Mutiu
2 Oct 07 at 2:46 pm
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19 Oct 07 at 6:28 pm
i’m of the opinion that most nigerian companies lack maintainance culture,that’s why they feel that updating of their websites is of less importance.Updating of information on their site is very important and ought to be the first on their priority list but unfortunately,they take it lightly.there is no excuse whatsoever for them not to update their websites at least once a month so they should try and cultivate the habit.
secondly,most companies don’t want to spend especially on updating their sites which they termed as ‘frivolities’because i believe they don’t know the power of websites and its benefits to their organizations.if companies begin to appreciate the internet,then there will be a change in their attitude towards updating their sites.
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Carroll Holcomb
13 Nov 08 at 1:14 am
I think we’ve got two types of websites -Static and Dynamic. A web designer or company may decide to have their site or a group of web pages static while they have a news or update page that contains constantly changin pages. Let’s face it, keeping a dynamic or updated website is only necessary if there is a change in the already provided information. Static websits are good if it is intended to be a sort of brochure like hotels and phone bookings. For that, you dn’t need to include the price which may change within a year.
Keeping an updated website is more expensive as you will need a web developer to work full time or periodically when there are important changes to be made and it is only companies that hav budgeted for such can even have a we department like UBA or Zenith.
Websites are equally good if they contain information that will not change for a long time but a dynamic site is more expensive to run, and time consuming. It should only be used when necessary for a big corporation or for blogs and forums
Felix
1 Mar 09 at 3:27 pm
But even, take a look at the screen shot, the news I was looking for happened about a year after the last news item. They really dont have an excuse. A website should be your online ambassador, available 24 hours and must be up-to-date. No Excuses!
As at today (02 March 2009), the page remains as is.
Oladipo MD
2 Mar 09 at 9:58 am
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