What alternatives are there to LVW?
Write your own site from scratch. The IVU offers free web space, but that’s it – you’re on your own – and you have no standard web technologies available to you. Even the best developer could not make a web site anywhere near as rich as an LVW site on IVU. Get someone to write it for you. How would YOU update it when they’ve done it? Unless the site has an extensive and easy to use configuration tool behind it, you may end up in an awkward situation of having a great site you can not change. Some very large very groups have come a cropper when their web master has moved on. With LVW, you are the web master. LVW has by far the richest functionality of any local group site, and improving all the time, and exceeds the capabilities, in many ways, that of the larger organisations’ web sites. There are many great generic content management system (see www.freshmeat.net for examples). You would still need to do a lot of bespoke programming to get it anywhere near to what LVW already does. If
