Parliment.uk should have saved their £3m
MPs have just spent £3 million of my hard earned cash redesigning the UK parliamentary website! You might expect it to look awesome for that money. But it is horrible!
Actually the full cost was £3,644,000. Apparently this is a “radical upgrade” according the tech savey MPs responsible. Imagine what it must have looked like before, if this is, as their spokesman described it, an “improved design and navigation”. And just get this, they have bought an on-line calendar of parliamentary business for the money. I’m sure Google calendar is cheaper!
I wonder which useless IT firm has managed to secure the contract for this job? They have displayed a total lack of talent and managed to pull the wool over the eyes of our dummy MPs. They could probably sell the same MPs a Ford focus and pretend it is a Porsche.
Am I bitter? Of course I am; this my tax money they are spending. And they could have done all this in WordPress and saved £3m.
Check it out for yourself: the parliament.uk site.
That’s bad and what’s more for that money you’d think that it would be:
tableless and nice code (which it isn’t!)
valid html (which it isn’t: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.uk%2F)
and actually worse it could well be breaking the disability discrimination act!!!!!!!
http://wave.webaim.org/report?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.uk%2F
missing alt and label tags on a site like that is pretty criminal…
You are right. The more you look at what they have got for the money the more incredible it is.
The fact that it isn’t even complying with today’s standards, especially for accessibility is appalling. Parliament should be asking for their money back!
Well, $7 million is brilliant for any designer. You are right… I see about $40,000 of actual work done there. Maybe less. I have some friends at University who could do better… and they probably would have done it for a class project.
To the guy who landed this gig, BRAVO! That’s a ton of profit. Just wonder if the firm hired was related to an MP, eh?