I must admit to having no previous experience in this direction, but I do use websites a lot and I appreciate those which are kept up-to-date. There is nothing worse, in my opinion, than a website which is several months out of date.

I knew what I wanted out of a kit. I required something easy to set up and manage whilst presenting material in a ‘professional’ way. I wanted photos and text, and various pages such as ‘forthcoming events’, and ‘what we’ve been up to’. I also wanted to upload pdfs onto a publications page.  I think this was too big an ask though.

In reality I found it far from simple. Having chosen a web address and set up the basic site, which was the easy bit, I have encountered all sorts of problems ever since.  Now these may be totally down to my IT inadequacies but I find it takes about ten attempts to make changes even though I do the same procedure each time. Photos are too small and I have yet to successfully upload a pdf.

In its favour you can make page headings easily and chop and change their order and you can have as many pages as you like.

We have no one with any website building expertise in my new group so I am very much on my own. The site will have to suffice until something better comes along, so in that respect it is better than no site at all.

Pip Osborne and CAMP