[LINK] Alston's $4m website

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Stil, you bugger, you've nicked the back of my envelope haven't you!!
Richard C 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stilgherrian
To: Viveka; The Link Institute
Sent: 3/04/03 18:09
Subject: Re: [LINK] Alston's $4m website

At 16:01 +1000 3/4/03, Viveka wrote:
>It looks like the site has around 5,000 pages (excluding 
>"printer-friendly" versions of pages, better done these days with a 
>print-specific stylesheet anyway)...

For $4M. So let's do the sums. $4M for the site of 5000 pages is, oh, 
$800 per page. Since it's possible to get a uni graduate who knows 
how to push objects around in Dreamweaver for $45 an hour, that means 
we could have these students spend 17+ hours on each and every page 
to build the whole site manually.

Yeah yeah, recruitment and management overheads... the need for a 
higher-paid person to do the initial design *coughs*... project 
management... so maybe your entry level code cutters only get 8 hours 
to do each page.

But that does put the sheer scale of the incompetence into perspective,
no? :)

I assume that the contractors responsible are being sued for 
incompetence and the people who managed the project under 
investigation for potential fraud? No? Oh gosh there's a surprise.

Stil


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