Comments on: New sites at Defra and BIS http://puffbox.com/2009/09/17/new-sites-at-defra-and-bis/ Adventures in government, politics and open source. Mostly WordPress-related. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Simon http://puffbox.com/2009/09/17/new-sites-at-defra-and-bis/comment-page-1/#comment-1120 Simon Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:53:22 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=1094#comment-1120 Sssssh, don't tell everyone. Sssssh, don't tell everyone.

]]> By: Steph Gray http://puffbox.com/2009/09/17/new-sites-at-defra-and-bis/comment-page-1/#comment-1119 Steph Gray Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:48:24 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=1094#comment-1119 I know what you mean Simon, but the user experience of some bits of the 1.0 site was pretty ropey, even if it was innovative. The fact that it's Wordpress still is quite important - I'd argue the innovation is in a site still built and managed in-house for no external budget bar hosting, which still feels a bit like it's powered by an enterprise CMS (and I've written up the furtively innovative RSS stuff). Incidentally, working on things like implementing a left hand navigation was a real pleasure in Wordpress - you just feel like there's always a way to do what you want, probably in the form a well-documented template tag or blog post somewhere, and normally implementable within 15 minutes. I know what you mean Simon, but the user experience of some bits of the 1.0 site was pretty ropey, even if it was innovative. The fact that it's WordPress still is quite important - I'd argue the innovation is in a site still built and managed in-house for no external budget bar hosting, which still feels a bit like it's powered by an enterprise CMS (and I've written up the furtively innovative RSS stuff).

Incidentally, working on things like implementing a left hand navigation was a real pleasure in WordPress - you just feel like there's always a way to do what you want, probably in the form a well-documented template tag or blog post somewhere, and normally implementable within 15 minutes.

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