Our diving instructor Marcus registered a half-decent domain that has a reference to wildlife a couple of years ago. He wants to use this domain for a website to promote wildlife-related activities and his own diving courses. WordPress seems to be very capable and suits him. The problem is that, decent and unique contents are hard to come by, and they takes ages to build up.
He has this idea about inviting his fellow diving instructors to contribute contents. It doesn’t work. It will never work. Hong Kong is not a literal society. People generally hate putting their words down. They don’t know how to, and they don’t communicate effectively. They don’t want to make a fool of themselves. Not to mention the learning curve of WordPress itself.
Not withstanding the likely outcome, I would still need to figure out one thing: if a contributor wishes to unattach himself or herself to this wildlife and takes his own stuff home for building another website, how does he or she do it easily, preferable w/ a simple export/import? MT does it, but WP doesn’t yet.
2 responses so far ↓
1 James Mok // Mar 8, 2004 at 1:49 am
Would a website linked to the seperate individual WordPress setup for each and every instructor work? So they could just copy or take back their own WordPress setup as a whole.
2 tin_the_fatty // Mar 8, 2004 at 8:29 pm
Your suggestion may work if the detaching contributor stays on good terms w/ Marcus.
A website where multiple contributers’ contents are aggregated is just a lot more attractive than any one of multiple personal websites.