'The Worm'

The Wriggly Worm Surfaces
What do worms do? They aerate the soil and act as gardeners’ friends. I live underground and have been known to do surreptitious things on the Internet. I am a worm. Judge for yourself whether I’m a nice or a nasty one. My blog is buried on UKITA’s online forum, that excellent vehicle, allegedly in the Black Country branch, so I can receive your worthy comments there.

Like you, I have off days and on days. Sometimes I am happy laying eggs and sometimes I suffer a fork through my body. Therefore some days I moan and some days I feel joyous. Just like a WMITA member. I do not represent the views of WMITA, any more than my deadly enemy, the mole does.

The £1000 Website
Recently I have been sympathising with the 1K website. This poor creature has had a real battering from the members of WMITA lately. I hear what they say. That 1K is a time-consuming unprofitable project that will not get their creators into the FTSE 100 anytime soon is pretty obvious. Often the 1K brings with it the timewaster, who wants a three page quote, spends hours on the phone and then gets his nephew to do it after all.

However, there are small organisations out there, often in the not for profit sector, amongst whom no one has the skills, knowledge or time to do it themselves. They actually have about 1K and need to purchase something of a reasonable professional standard combined with meeting legal and accessibility expectations.

Do they deserve to be ripped off by amateurs? Also to be honest, when you left Uni with no web projects under your belt, didn’t the 1K have its uses to build up your portfolio? Does it deserve to become extinct? Remember the 1K customer can suddenly access humongous funds for some other online project, and who would they turn to?

The Worm

August 2007