I have just read your announcement with regret, as I have been one of the lucky ones to have had this service .

Perhaps you can give us some advice as to how to overcome our problem as to the future and where I go from here website wise.

Do we have to start a new website completely or have one designed by someone, or is there a possibility of transferring our existing sites to continue or whatever?.

I am a complete computer illiterate and have found mine so easy to use - where do I go from here?

p.s. Can we keep our domain names or have we got to get another

Can we put an announcement on the old sites to re-redirect ?

Post edited by: whitewood, at: 2008/05/09 09:52

Hi Whitewood - another Eek! from me to join yours.

No wonder I was batting my head against a brick wall for a week trying to get in to update my website about a foal and it just was having non of it. The email link from the websites editing page to the webmaster didn't work either, so I came through the link here to Peter asking him what was wrong.

I heard nothing back personally until I read your post just now and am a bit concerned that if we cannot go in and at least alter our websites with a live link to our new websites, SO many regular visitors to our sites will be lost to us as there is no way of letting them know that the lights are on on our websites but nobody is home!!!!!!

Whitewood, I have spent many years fiddling with a new, larger website and you have my sympathies as, if you are starting from scratch, its going to be a nightmare for you, unless you have oodles of money to pay someone to build you a new one and then have to pay them each time you update it, which with us breeders is quite regular.

Back to the drawing board for you.
Sorry

PS. I get free web pages in with my Pipex internet broadband (unlimited access) costing me about £24 a month. I bought two website building BIBLES (yawn) and have studied them and managed to make a start... slowly...
http://www.verwoodmeadow.dsl.pipex.com


Peter - did you not know in advance that this upgrading was going to happen, if you had let us know, it would have given us, the free website users, a chance to make one last edit, which in my case would be a link to my new website that I have had as a work in progress for years. You closing your facility down is the kick in the pants I've needed to finish it! But I must say thanks for all those free EASY years with you!

Ditto the above comments. I have also got a free site and have found both it and Peter's help invaluable. I don't know where to go from here. Peter, can you offer any advice? Or is there anyone else out there who can recommend any other website companies that are easy to use and not too expensive, preferably UK based for support?

Hi
I'm not sure how the price compares to others, but I started and maintain a website where I work using WebAlive. It costs around £400 a year and it is totally easy to use - no html language - just select a template, add however many pages you want, type in what you want, add photos etc. If you want to take a look, it is www.chaseley.org.uk.