Posted on September 6, 2018
Author Jacque Ryan, WKVI
North Judson Town Council members took a major step toward getting an official town website created when they met this week.
Clerk-Treasurer Andrew Rowe told council members on Tuesday that he’s been having conversations with Brian Pinson from SpiderByte IT about the costs associated with such a project.
He said the creation cost for a default framework that would be customizable would be around $1,500 to $2,500. There would also be an annual $200 hosting cost.
Pinson told Rowe that it would take approximately one month to get the site created and then there would be about one year where officials would communicate back and forth about adjustments they’d like to make.
The clerk-treasurer added that for an entirely new website to be created from scratch it would take at least three to four months to build and it would be exponentially more costly. Council members were in agreement that a pre-existing template would be the best way to go.
Rowe added that the town utilized this company for their phone system and mentioned that they designed the County’s website as well as the website for the Starke County Sheriff’s Department.
Rowe said the first task for the council members would be to come up with some potential domain names they could use for the official website. He said he has jotted down a couple and encouraged to them to contact him with any suggestions.
Councilman James Young noted that it would be advantageous to purchase as many of the domain names related to ‘North Judson’ in them in order to keep others from making sites that utilize the town’s name.
Councilman John Rowe mentioned that this has been on the docket for the while and said since the town has successfully worked with the company in the past, he’d feel comfortable moving forward with them rather than shopping around.
The remaining council members agreed and a unanimous vote was cast to utilize SpiderByte IT for the creation of the town’s website.
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