wainfleet.info
The Wainfleet website was created by Keith Butters (Bowhunter Websites) in 2002 to promote Wainfleet as a place to live, shop, visit and stay. Upon Keith’s retirement in 2018, Bowhunter Websites and wainfleet.info were taken over by Chris Drew (MGC Websites Ltd – a website developer in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire) and this site was relaunched in August 2019.
How it Works
Businesses pay a modest annual fee for their own page on the site. This page not only promotes their services but helps to make the town as a whole a more attractive destination to visit, shop and even live in. For their money each business receives a professionally built web page with high quality photos on the town’s leading website exposing them to tens of thousands of website visitors every year.
This income effectively sponsors the rest of the site’s content from free pages for groups, and clubs to the publicising of events and writing of articles etc. This sustainable business model has kept our sites live and current for many years whilst those relying on funding and/or the enthusiasm of amateurs tend to come and go. You can also be assured we have no political motives or personal agenda – it’s just good, honest business.
wainfleet.info Website Redesigns
wainfleet.info has had a few redesigns since 2002 and has seen the introduction of Responsive Web Design (websites that can display on small screen devices like the iPhone), Content Management Systems (where pages are built on demand by pulling the content from a database and inserting it into a template), Secure Certificates (encrypting the communications between the web server and your device) and much more.
Initially it had to squeeze data through slow dial-up connections before enjoying the luxury of high speed broadband only to see mobile users starting to browse the web on slower connections making speed a priority once more.
We have also witnessed the rise – and seemingly now the beginning of the fall – of Social Media which presented both an opportunity and challenge for small local businesses.
In 2018 MGC Websites Ltd acquired Bowhunter Websites and it’s assets including the Wainfleet website. The site was relaunched in 2019 running on a highly modified Content Management System to make it more feature rich and more efficient to update than any of it’s predecessors.
We are promoting the Community of Wainfleet. Our Site is financed primarily by the businesses in and around the town. The Webmaster thanks all the businesses and organisations who have contributed. Particularly I thank Councillor James Epton (sadly, no longer with us) for all his practical support for the project, the Town Council and the Parish Council of Wainfleet St. Mary.
Keith and Janet Butters (founders of Bowhunter Websites and burghlemarsh.info)