Is a website maintained, opereated, run, other?

What reads best?

[MatthewHSE]

In some of our marketing, we use phrases such as the following:

Besides publishing a bi-monthly, full-color magazine, we also maintain the community-style website, "My Website Title."

Here are the variations we've come up with so far:

we also maintain the community-style website . . .

we also make available the community-style website . . .

we also run the community-style website . . .

Are there any other variations on this theme that others like better, or that customers might like better?

I guess what it comes down to is, what do you "do" with a website? Is it maintained, operated, run, etc.?

[crashomon]

If you own the content to the site, then you publish it.

If you simply keep it up and running (that is, the server is turned on, etc) then you maintain it.

If you add content to it, but don't own anything, then you manage it.

Does that help?

Patrick Elward
(web owner, publisher and manager, but not a maintainer!)

[MatthewHSE]

I do all of those (except maintain, I guess). So what then? ;)

[drbrain]

A community-style website (wiki, forum) could also be "maintained" by keeping out spammers and editing posts for politeness, etc.

[yowza]

You could say "we also provide the community-style website . . ." ...it's a little better than

make available

. I would say something like "In addition to publishing a a bi-monthly, full-color magazine, we also provide a community-style website: "My Website Title".

Or, if the site is related to the magazine: "In addition to publishing a bi-monthly, full-color magazine, we also produce an accompanying community-style website: "My Website Title".

[crashomon]

produce, that's an excellent word! I vote for that!

[MatthewHSE]

Thanks everyone, great thoughts and ideas, all of which are better than our originals!

[trillianjedi]

I guess what it comes down to is, what do you "do" with a website?

All of the above would work, but you should pick the one that "sounds" right for *your* website and best reflects what *you're* all about.

In some of our marketing, we use phrases such as the following:

Collectively, all these little things make up the user experience, and that is all part of your "brand".

Brand is as important for a community site as it is for a large-scale e-commerce site.

Choose terminology wisely and as a reflection of your website, and not a reflection of what other people "do".

TJ