23 September - Must try harder
Maybe
I am biased but I think Bexley council’s website is appalling. It is not nearly
as nice to look at as almost any other London borough site. The Search
facility is truly abysmal often providing 500 possibilities to trawl through
and that Alphabet thing at the top of the page is often so slow for me (on
an
80mb fibre connection) that it appears not to work. Sometimes it definitely
doesn't, routing instead to an error page.
Even getting back to the Home page is not as easy as it should be. It’s the only
commercial site I know of where you cannot simply click the company logo. Come
to that it is the only site I use that demands the www. prefix. I thought that
became redundant almost everywhere ages ago. But overall I would accept it is
better than it used to be.
But
what I think probably doesn’t matter much, what does the Society of Information
Technology Managers think? Well according to Page 25 of the current Bexley
Magazine they have awarded Bexley ‘Three stars’ for their website and Bexley
sings its own praises. Good you might think and I would agree that Three is
better than Two. However in true Bexley council fashion things are not quite what they seem.
The SITM rates websites on a scale of One to Four. No mention of that in the magazine.