Web Sites - Subject to Advertising Standards from 1st March

Copyright, Libel, Decency, Incitement, Discrimination, Privacy ... you web sight has had to conform with the law in all those areas and - from 1st March, you can add Advertising Standards to the list. So the site needs to be truthful in its adverting / selling, and not make false claims. I understand that the ASA is taking on more staff to cope with the expected rush of complaints.

What does this mean for the web site owner? Advise is to check that your web site (and advertising emails if you use them!) conform to the same advertising codes that you use in printed adverts and the adverts you get shown on the TV. For those of us who sell predominantly online, we need to be even more stringent in what we write, and to do things like check back for those old offers at old prices that weren't date-limited and may still be in some dusty corner of our web site. Frankly, it's always made good sense (and always been our policy at Well House) to write web site content to the highest standard, so whilst we're taking a careful look, I don't think we'll have much - if anything - to change. And that's on a web site with over 10,000 different URLs [and I can, of course, back that claimed size ;-) ]

Our PHP, Tomcat Deployment, Linux Web Server and Deploying LAMP courses all include a section that introduces the legal considerations of writing / maintaining a web site, and the new ASA stuff will be mentioned in future presentations of the courses. Our course index is [here] - giving upcoming dates and links to agendas for each of these courses.
(written 2011-02-13, updated 2011-02-19)

Associated topics are indexed under

G998 - Well House Consultants - Newsletter Highlighted Box
  [2520] Global and Enable - two misused words! - (2009-11-30)
  [2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP? - (2009-09-08)
  [2385] Reading all our recent news from a single source - (2009-08-29)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2125] We have lost a regular business guest - (2009-04-10)
  [2050] Why the Pony Tail? - (2009-02-21)
  [1967] LinkedIn - Thrice Asked, and joined. - (2008-12-30)
  [1843] How many cups of coffee? - (2008-10-17)
  [1751] Public Training Course Dates until July 2009 - (2008-08-13)
  [1629] A short introduction to our courses - (2008-05-03)
  [1621] Linux and Java Course in London - (2008-04-24)
  [1521] Evening drive across the roof of Wiltshire - (2008-01-27)
  [1475] Tcl/Tk - updating your display while tasks are running - (2007-12-16)
  [1375] Python v Ruby - (2007-10-02)
  [1307] Troy, up state New York - (2007-08-17)
  [1237] What proportion of our web traffic is robots? - (2007-06-19)
  [1132] Well House Manor, Melksham, Art Gallery - (2007-04-02)
  [1068] ls -l report, Linux / Unix - types and permssions - (2007-02-06)
  [1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham - (2006-12-29)

A213 - Web Application Deployment - Commercial and Legal Aspects
  [3104] Catering in Syracuse, the Saigon Cafe, stolen images and Christmas - (2010-12-25)
  [3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
  [2686] Freedom of Information - consideration for web site designers - (2010-03-20)
  [2592] Re-using our pictures - (2010-01-21)
  [2252] Leaping dog, Leaping horse, copyright of old masters - (2009-06-20)
  [2140] Beware - giving copyright away when you upload a picture - Dogs Trust - (2009-04-25)
  [1937] Getting hold of the wrong end of the stick - (2008-12-12)
  [1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers - (2008-10-14)
  [1747] Who is watching you? - (2008-08-10)
  [1506] Ongoing Image Copyright Issues, PHP and MySQL solutions - (2008-01-14)
  [1486] Does anyone understand Lithuanian? - (2007-12-27)
  [1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members. - (2007-12-26)
  [1431] Getting the community on line - some basics - (2007-11-13)
  [1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site - (2007-01-27)
  [994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets - (2006-12-17)
  [876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23)
  [795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too - (2006-07-07)
  [759] Watch your Google profile - (2006-06-13)
  [746] Domain Listing Center and Domain Registry of America - (2006-06-06)
  [532] Copyright - how much can I legally copy? - (2005-12-17)
  [322] More maps - (2005-05-23)
  [320] Ordnance Survey - using a 'Get a map' - (2005-05-22)
  [288] Colour blindness for web developers - (2005-04-22)
  [259] Responding to spam - (2005-03-27)
  [142] Colour for access - (2004-12-06)

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