[LINK] Worrying about the Dark Ages (was Re: ANAO report: Government Agencies' Management of their Websites)

[Lea de Groot]

On 20/12/2008, at 5:30 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> it's not even that they think that uploading 1MB jpegs is OK rather  
> than
> small web-optimised GIF or PNG versions of the same image - it's that
> they don't think of it AT ALL because it would never occur to them  
> that
> there is anything to think about. have picture, point, click, upload.

Well, no, not quite.
I'm not aware of who the current team at Fairfax are, but the lads who  
set up the current system that we see were an extremely up to date and  
standards savvy crew.
Some of the best, really.
What they did have a problem with (and I remember them talking about  
this at a seminar) was the problem of developing a tight, fast  
loading, web standards compliant site that met the management goals of  
3rd party advertising.
This is still a problem now, a few  years later.

Lea
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