The area of sustainability of websites should be an important consideration for any funding that involves public money, both during the life-time of the project and after it. Especially when government funded agencies are being rationalised finding ways to keep the sites going even if they are not updated further, they still provide a ‘snap-shot’ of the resources at a particular point in time. This project looked at possible sustainability options and has the following recommendations: · A sustainable web solution should be considered for funded projects. There are a number of free options. · Google Sites is an appropriate solution if the number of pages is small, the formatting of the pages is not too complicated and it is a new web site. · Amazon is appropriate for both new and previously developed material is being migrated. ...
Concerned with investigating appropriate methods to 'rescue' at risk web resources in a sustainable form.