Posted August 1, 201 by DaveR:
I would like to thank everyone for their comments - if anyone else would like to comment, please feel free to do so. All views are welcome!
The cost of running the Forum is not really an issue - last year, the hosting costs were £167 and for that we do get a very good service from Heart Internet (we've used 118gb of bandwidth so far this year) .
Personally, I'd just like to see a few more of our members posting, so that we get some more varied opinions & ideas on whatever topic is being discussed.
There is also, perhaps, potential to expand into other areas - blogs, for example, such as Wordpress can easily be hosted on this website at no extra cost, so that members could have their own free blog here. Or maybe we could have one main blog and members could contribute their own posts as and when they felt the urge?
I've mentioned before about having more local news items on the front page - perhaps there is scope for local amateur journalists to contribute articles etc.
Perhaps a proper 'recommended businesses' section?
I'm also interested in building a 'Visitors Guide to Llandudno' mini-website, similar to the one that Noel Whalley did and which is sadly becoming a little out of date since his untimely death. There is a truly excellent guide to Chester at
http://www.chesterwalls.info/ Perhaps a Llandudno version could be constructed?
There's also potential for us to have a historical guide to Llandudno, making use of all of our knowledge and old photos to have a street by street guide, similar to an online version of the Ivor Wynne Jones guidebook.
A few ideas there...anyone have any others?