I joined a non-local archaeology group last year, mainly because they had a website, and the local groups didn’t have anything I could find. Shallow, I know, but a web presence is so important to me – I like to be able to get access to information at any time of day, or when I’m out and about. If you can’t offer me a website, then I’m mostly not interested. In fact, you barely exist to me.
I was slightly disappointed to find that the information on their site was not really up to date, so it instantly lost credibility with me: if there’s one thing I dislike more than lack of data, it’s untrustworthy or stale data.
Somehow, I ended up on the committee and started poking my nose into their website – the problem wasn’t that they had nothing to say, nor that they were doing nothing worth mentioning. The problem was technology. Archaeologists aren’t, for the most part, nerds, so the problem of how to get stuff onto the site was the stumbling block.
Obviously what was needed was some kind of friendly content-management system that would allow any of the committee to make announcements, publish activities and talks and generally tell the world about the exciting things that we do.
I was already a Wordpress user and was itching for an excuse to use it as a CMS. It works surprisingly well for what they wanted it to do: members login area, Events (with extra data), easy management of images etc. At some point I will get round to listing all the plugins I used – I’m still documenting it all for the archaeologists!
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