the prime minister's website is rubbish

[kwerk]

http://www.number10.gov.uk/

It looks like they paid some student £50 to slap together a wordpress site. It doesn't look prime ministery at all.

This part looks a little bit better, but not much:
http://transparency.number10.gov.uk/

 

[DirtyJester]

...what did you expect ?

 

[Pixel]

Yet if they got some design guru to make the site at a cost of many thousands, everyone would be whining about where our tax money is being spent.

 

[Speirs]

Maybe he should have a look at some of the mega bonus banks websites and see where it's lacking?

 

[Klo]

Yet if they got some design guru to make the site at a cost of many thousands, everyone would be whining about where our tax money is being spent.

This.

And it doesn't look that bad really.

 

[kwerk]

They paid £11,000 on the "design" (you know... unpacking wordpress to a folder and uploading it). £400,000 total cost for a year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/05/government-websites-costs

 

[whitecrook]

Doesn't look that bad.

Question: is using Wordpress in a commercial environment (e.g. for a professional business website) frowned upon? Is it seen as cheap/amateurish?

Personally for me, no. What do you think?

 

[Strife212]

Any sort of contractor working for the government is laughing at the money they get surely.

 

[CliffyBiro]

Nothing wrong with it. It's clean and easy to use.

 

[kwerk]

They didn't abide by the license of the theme they used either.

http://antbag.com/copyright-flaw-of-british-prime-ministers-website/

 

[Fr0dders]

They paid £11,000 on the "design" (you know... unpacking wordpress to a folder and uploading it). £400,000 total cost for a year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/05/government-websites-costs

They didn't abide by the license of the theme they used either.

http://antbag.com/copyright-flaw-of-british-prime-ministers-website/

£11,000 for somebody to knock together a wordpress site and steal somebody elses theme

Shocking.

 

[kwerk]

Doesn't look that bad.

Question: is using Wordpress in a commercial environment (e.g. for a professional business website) frowned upon? Is it seen as cheap/amateurish?

Personally for me, no. What do you think?

I looks cheap to me, unless you have a very nice custom theme. I think it's because most dodgy spam and content farm type sites use it and it just looks slapped together in a rush.

Joomla or Drupal seem a lot more professional to me for some reason.

 

[2StepSteve]

I have seen worse so called high profile sites.

 

[Lysander]

It looks clean, smart and easy to use.

I see no issue.

 

[arknor]

could be worst, i remember when making your whole website out of flash was all the rage and it took minutes to find what you wanted....

 

[Energize]

could be worst, i remember when making your whole website out of flash was all the rage and it took minutes to find what you wanted....

Occasionally you still come across them, horrific. Flash will forever be remembered as the worst thing to have happened to the internet, ever.

 

[twist3d0n3]

your threads are rubbish

 

[2StepSteve]

your threads are rubbish

I was about to defend the OP but then I searched OPs started threads.

And..

I agree

'Man trapped between train and platform' was the only highlight.

I have read this thread once.. I wouldn't read it again.

 

[Naffa]

I think the title could be shorter:

The prime minister is rubbish.

Thanks.

 

[Darkstaruk]

Was Gordon Browns website much better?