The Spilsby website was launched by Keith Butters of Bowhunter Websites in 2001 with the co-operation of the Town Council and the Spilsby Chamber of Trade (now the Business Partnership) with the then chairman, Greg Clark, to promote Spilsby as a place to live, shop, visit and stay.

Thanks to all those who helped in the creation of this Site; in particular David Pleming, of Peter David Photography, Mark Tong, of E. J. Tong & Sons, Gerald Rose who took many of the photographs and Cliff Preston for help with pictures and publicity. All have given very helpful comments and advice.Thank you also to the Town Council for the letters of reference and support. The Town Clerk and Mayor of Spilsby (2000/2001), Councillor Peter Grant, have been most encouraging and gave practical support in getting the project off the ground. Thank you also to Eileen Chantry of Burgh le Marsh, who edited ‘Focus on Spilsby.’.Keith and Janet Butters (founders of Bowhunter Websites and spilsby.info)

Built To Last

Businesses pay a modest fee for their own page which effectively sponsors the rest of the site’s content from free pages for groups, and clubs to the publicising of events and writing of articles etc. For their money each business receives a professionally built web page on the town’s leading website exposing them to tens of thousands of website visitors every year.

This proven business model has kept our sites viable as various copy-cats have come and gone.

Spilsby.info Website Redesigns

Spilsby.info has had a few redesigns since 2001 and has seen the introduction of Responsive Web Design (websites that can display on small screen devices like the iPhone), Content Management Systems (where pages are built on demand by pulling the content from a database and inserting it into a template), Secure Certificates (encrypting the communications between the web server and your device) and much more.

Initially it had to squeeze data through slow dial-up connections before enjoying the luxury of high speed broadband only to see mobile users starting to browse the web on slower connections making speed a priority once more.

We have also witnessed the rise – and seemingly now the beginning of the fall – of Social Media which presented both an opportunity and challenge for small local businesses.

In 2018 MGC Websites Ltd acquired Bowhunter Websites and it’s assets including the Spilsby website which received a quick tidy up to keep it going through 2018. In April 2019 the site was relaunched running on a highly modified Content Management System to make it more feature rich and more efficient to update than any of it’s predecessors.