How did the Find Madeleine website cost £36.000?

[Angelo222]

Well, what do you expect for only  36 000 £ to set up and run a website, miracles?

It is a dormant website so costs should be extremely low year on year.  As for setting it up, any computer wise kid could do that for a few quid.

[mercury]

It is a dormant website so costs should be extremely low year on year.  As for setting it up, any computer wise kid could do that for a few quid.

yup
they trade for free on facebook these days too

[Alice Purjorick]

Not exactly the transparency promised.

But more transparent that Sr Amarals fund allegedly........... I read that on here somewhere, though quite what relevance Amarals Beer 'n' Baccy Fund has to do with the transparency of "The Fund" I am at a loss to understand 

[pegasus]

A few 50 thousand dollar questions for the MF website.
What country in Praia Da Luz in?
What language do the locals speak?
What language webpage do the Smithman efits need to be on?

[ShiningInLuz]

A few 50 thousand dollar questions for the MF website.
What country in Praia Da Luz in?
What language do the locals speak?
What language webpage do the Smithman efits need to be on?

That leads to the rather interesting question of how Smithman has been advertised strictly within Portugal, but I would rather see that as a separate topic for many a reason.

[mercury]

A few 50 thousand dollar questions for the MF website.
What country in Praia Da Luz in?
What language do the locals speak?
What language webpage do the Smithman efits need to be on?

36k just for one year never managed anythng much, doubt any mllions will do either, makes you wonder  what that silly site is for

[lordpookles]

Depends if you hired the services of an ad agency or design studio and £36k is not much just for the creation. The work maintaining it would be minimal imo. Of course if there is no CMS system to update the website you have to edit the code directly and if you weren't familiar with that then you would have to pay someone. Can't see fees being too exorbitant though.

[mercury]

you what?  are you being serious? I doubt it!

[lordpookles]

Ah i reread a family friend 

[Alfred R Jones]

From a blog dated 2007

A company wanted a straightforward website that allowed visitors to search for particular types of holiday acommodation. Without talking in any great detail with a developer, they were quoted £32,000 (yes, thirty-two thousand pounds). When the company said that this was more than they had expected, the web-developer offered to do the same for £16,000 - half the original quote! Yet the alarm bells didn;t start ringing. It gets worse: when the company asked if it would be possible for it to be done in two weeks (from giving them the content – list of properties etc) the web-developer were happy to comply. The company knew there were only two people involved in the web-development company. BUT they didn’t think to work out that this meant that even if the two worked 16 hour days for two weeks they would be charging £50 per hour. We happen to know it took one of them 10 days - £200 an hour!

So there you go - whatever the "sceptics" are inferring by questioning the cost of the FM website, let's hope this gives them "pause for thought".

[Alice Purjorick]

you what?  are you being serious? I doubt it!

I feel another George Mparrbe moment coming on 
"What you has to understand in dis context is dat you can do an adequate website for five 'undred of your quids but we has a system what is more complex and we needs to pay Bill, Charlie, Wayne, Shane an' Lotty considerable lots of dosh for all sorts of tings........so 36 grand is really cheap at twice the price"
You must be three ha'pence short of a bob not to realise that 

[sadie]

I know so! This was back in 2007, so the website is looking dated now, but it is still quite tightly designed imo for a website of this nature back then. If you hired your fresh out of uni local web designer you could probably could have got this made for 1 or 2k. If you hire an ad agency or design agency, which is a team of people you are easily looking at this kind of bill imo(also consider the agency probably designed all promotional materials too like tshirts etc). And considering they had a big fund of course you would get professionals to do the job!

How lucky we are to have a professional on here to give us the facts.

Thankyou lordpookles 

[lordpookles]

How lucky we are to have a professional on here to give us the facts.

Thankyou lordpookles 

Yep I deleted that post because I read that the website was built by a family friend??

Yeah a website isn't as substantial as house for instance and people are surprised to say the least when they see costs. i'm not entirely familiar with the financial side of things, but I know 36k is not that much at all...

[Eleanor]

Yep I deleted that post because I read that the website was built by a family friend??

Yeah a website isn't as substantial as house for instance and people are surprised to say the least when they see costs. i'm not entirely familiar with the financial side of things, but I know 36k is not that much at all...

For a professional job on a Site expecting millions of hits it is not over priced.

[stephen25000]

For a professional job on a Site expecting millions of hits it is not over priced.

and it has achieved what exactly ???