Archive for December 2010
Puffbox launches site for Djibouti presidential candidate
A month or two ago, to be perfectly honest, I would have struggled to find Djibouti on a map. But for the last few weeks, I've been working on a project to launch one man's campaign to become its President: and the site went live this week. Djibouti is a former French colony, located on [...] read on »
LibDems’ underwhelming web revamp
The world of Liberal Democrat websites is dominated, almost monopolised, by one company - Prater Raines, based in Folkestone. They offer local LibDem parties a corporate website template, plus mailing list facility, plus a shared photo library, plus hosting, plus email, plus DNS, etc etc, for a staggeringly low £250 (ish) a year. When a [...] read on »
DCLG’s WordPress questionnaire
Just a quick post to record that Communities and Local Government have launched what I believe is their first WordPress-based project: Barrier Busting. Based - apparently - on something originally done by BIS, although I don't immediately recognise it, it's a fairly modest site built around a one-page survey form, asking people about the 'bureaucratic [...] read on »
Cabinet Office heralds shift to Drupal
Make no mistake about it: today's launch of the new Cabinet Office website isn't just a much-needed facelift for the least usable departmental site in Whitehall. It's a signal of things to come. The new site is pretty, modern, and at first glance, very well put-together. There's evidence of planning for re-use, with the simultaneous [...] read on »
Confirmed: skunkworks running late
The Cabinet Office's latest structural reform plan admits that they've missed the November 2010 target for establishing a 'government skunkworks'... but there is progress to report. Good progress has been made on IT skunk works with development lead appointed, a concept developed and a CIO-Council led initiative in place to help shape development of skunk [...] read on »
Skunkworks status update
I think I had my first Mr Kipling's mince pie of the festive season as long ago as September. Yes, it had the festive holly on the top; and amusingly, it had a best before date well before 25 December. But now, with two doors open on the advent calendars, I can now confirm it's [...] read on »