How much time does it take?

[KL Oberst]

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Ilene Frank (REF) wrote:

> Our sysadmin has left us for a new position.  She had put up the original
> web pages here at the Library. They haven't been touched in the
> intervening months. I want to convince our upper administrators that a
> website needs constant nurturing in order to thrive.  Can you all give me
> some rough figures of how many webpersonhours are spent per week keeping
> up your sites? 

I have a student checking links on a regular basis.  Between her and I, I 
would estimate we spend a day, i.e. 8 hrs., a week on housekeeping.  BTW, 
that doesn't begin to touch the hours needed if you actually want to add 
information or upgrade the site.

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