Concerning website costs, sourced online Central Bedfordshire Council seem to be spending money on unnecessary software to check web links.
Freedom of Information Request
Further to your request received on 19th December 2012 please see the
response to your questions below:
Please note that Central Bedfordshire Council only came into existence on 1 April 2009 and therefore only holds information relating to your request from that date onwards.
Q1.
Can you please detail, for each year since your public website was
launched, how much money has been spent on creating,
developing, and maintaining it. Where possible, please break these
costs out Q1a – Q1d.:
Breakdown not held, see response below on spend:
SmartLogic Semaphore - Web Content Search Facility:
20091/10 - £8749
2010/11 - £8924
2011/12 - £9147
SiteImprove - Web Link Check Software:
2009/10 - £1094
2010/11 - £2328
2011/12 - £2396 Maintenance
2011/12 - £960 – Upgrade to Pages
Capita Income - Capita Income Software:
2009/10 - £17894
2010/11 - £23231
2011/12 - £22933
Not sure if this will help with their budget costs, but I have used a free link-checking program called Xenu for years and that can produce very exhaustive link-check reports, as I have indeed provided to Beds Library Service this year.
