I, too, find it annoying. One should not have to depend upon the search feature to find what they are looking for. However, at least that has always yielded good results.
Regards, Jason Stone | Hale --- Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anne McCandless wrote: > > > Does anyone besides me find the City of Mpls web site the most screwed > > up mess on the internet? It seems like it is designed to make things > > impossible to find. My current quest is to find out who are the > > members of the planning commission. I am sure someone will come up > > with a perfectly logical link like 'architectural students whose names > > start with p', but the whole thing stinks. Unless you're looking for > > some info the city really has to supply because another site already > > does, like property info, the site is inadequate, outdated and totally > > confusing. Maybe it's just me, in which case I'm sure one of you will > > tell me. By the way, wasn't our mayor supposed to be gung ho on > > computer technology? How much does it cost to keep a user friendly > > site up to date and if the city can't, then dump it and save money. > > > > As a professional web site developer, I find the City web site to be > incredibly annoying. It's difficult to find anything but the few things > they've chosen to lsit on the front page. It *looks* attractive enough, > and they clearly spent good money on the graphics and arrangement of > shapes and text on the page. I wouldn't call it out-dated, at all. The > current design is not their first and is not more than a couple of years > old, if I recall correctly. > > No, they just plain designed a poorly organized site. The people who > designed and constructed it appear to not to have followed many of the > rules of thumb for good design, ignoring the end user's needs. > > It need not cost a fortune or even a small fortune to keep a site up to > date. In fact, the City site is quite up to date, at least in the parts > I've looked at. It's just darn near impossible to find what one is > looking for in the first place. > > Chris Johnson > Fulton > > > TEMPORARY REMINDER: > 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject > (Mpls-specific, of course.) > > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
