Every Small Town Deserves a Website
For years, we've helped communities and towns build their own online presence. And every time, the story followed the same arc: a wave of enthusiasm, a shared commitment to cover the costs, and a launch day that felt like a small victory.
Then reality sets in
Hosting fees, domain renewals, content updates, broken links, plugin conflicts — the small costs added up, and the maintenance slowly became a chore nobody really wanted to own. The website that once excited the whole community quietly drifted into neglect.
That's exactly the problem we set out to solve with the Ons Karoo en Kontrei strategy.
One of its core aims is simple: give every town in our area its own website, without the financial burden or the ongoing maintenance headache.
How it works
Each town has its own dedicated page, hosted within a single shared platform. No separate hosting contracts, no individual domain fees, no one person left figuring out how to update a banner at midnight.
And those pages are already live. Right now, some of them are still a bit bare — a name, a map, a placeholder where a story should be. That's where you come in. The people who actually live in a town know its character, its history, its quirks. If you're from one of these places, take a look at what's there and add what's missing. A paragraph about the village square, a photo of the annual market, a note about the church that's been standing since 1400 — the kind of things that make a page feel like home rather than a blank template.
The shortcut to your town is www.{your town's name}.dorp.info. For example: www.calvinia.dorp.info
And if you run a business in one of these towns, you can do the same. Register as a family member of the platform and add your own listing, your events, your opening hours — no middleman, no waiting for someone else to get around to it.
A website that stays alive, stays updated, and stays affordable — because the weight of keeping it running is shared, not shouldered by one volunteer or one municipal budget line.
Every town here already has a place online. Now it just needs its people to show up.
