Haringey Council have recently launched a new website. I've had a very quick look and it does look clearer than it's predecesor, but I've not really had a chance to have a look around?
I've been picking up various gripes about its performance -"incredibly slow with many, many broken links", says one correspondent. I've tried it this morning and it is slow. It may just be having teething troubles.
Has anyone else used it?
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Function should always take precedence over form
So many websites where you can't see the wood for the pretty trees.
It just looks like it's been re-skinned to me. And if you go down to a lower level content page the left hand menu is doing weird things so they need to do a bit more QA.
Personally I don't really like the design they've used, but then I didn't like the look and feel of the old site either.
On the plus side it wasn't slow for me.
On the first day Haringey's new website was very slow. When I phoned, one of the staff said they knew about the problem and the IT people were trying to find why and to solve it. This morning (5 November) I had intermittent failures to connect at all to the Council's homepage.Though it now seems okay. (So please don't give up.)
The redesign tries to give prominence to the most frequently used functions. Though I still found the Home Page overcrowded and 'busy'.
Of course, my view as a frequent user is far less less important than casual visitors who have, perhaps only one or two reasons for going on the site. In the past I've suggested that our webteam learn from watching volunteers using the site. They told me they had done this.
If anyone sees another council website which does the job more efficiently and elegantly, please give the link.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor.)
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