Watchdog set up to safeguard North East websites
A WATCHDOG may be launched to offer North East businesses a way of finding a dependable way of running a web site.
The Federation of Media Development Businesses (FMDC) may be launched in Middlesbrough after an growing quantity of firms complained of becoming taken advantage of by internet designers.
The aim with the FMDC is to be the lead regulator for businesses providing providers like web design and hosting, and enable them to sign up to a charter which proves that they are a reliable firm.
It also plans to be the first proactive repository of clients’ access codes and domain registration particulars, which offers secured back-up emergency facilities.
FMDC co-director Stuart Davies said: “If a web style company goes bust or disappears, it may imply your company’s internet presence is wiped out with one fell swoop.
“Not only does which have a damaging impact on any company, but it may also price hundreds as well as a large number of pounds to set up a new web site from scratch.
“However, our system would mean that businesses know which internet designers they are able to trust, meaning a better support and experience for the company owner, which in turn offers the web developer with a higher reputation.
“And within the unlikely occasion of something going wrong, everything will be backed up so downtime will be kept to a minimum.”
Fellow director Saheed Rashid mentioned: “The FMDC can also act like a tender program for developers ensuring that any company searching for a high quality development organization will probably be secure within the knowledge that all companies who respond will be of the higher high quality.
“The tendering system remains anonymous till the company has made a decision which improvement and media businesses it wishes to talk with”.
The FMDC will host its official launch occasion at the Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough on June 30.
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