@gisho, kabisa!!

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Wanjohi Ndegwa <andegs2000@gmail.com> wrote:
John Gitau is absolutely right...Content is king and research has actually shown that users can usually put up with a bad design so long as they are getting the "right kind" of content, take a look at wikipedia, and facebook, where they started from....

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
I understand UX (trust me on this one or don't - no matter:-)). However no matter how you do it without content I don't care. This is a government site. I wouldn't care less so long as they had the content they are purporting to give on the site. And I am a user too telling you I care more about content. they can put it as plain text files if they want to.

It is a government site, they really shouldn't care for my emotions, they should care that I get a service off it. what were tehy initially trying to communicate? does the site communicate it?

You put this on a public forum and I'm just pointing out what I ( a user) cares about.

Twitter.com (@3rdworldnet) is probably the ugliest site I ever saw (my opinion) but millions spend time there for those 140 characters.

on a scale of 1 - 10 I rate it 2:-) this was a rating thread after all:-)) we should do a custom poll to rate all the government sites on UX/content/utter rubbish etc....

gitau


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Kibui Maina <mainakibui@gmail.com> wrote:
@John Gitau 

  1. Read title of email : 

    WOW rate this http://www.statehousekenya.go.ke/

    did U rate it?
  2. some of us dont just write code we also do build proper UI 's
  3. This is the highest office in our country. It represents the country as a whole.
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A user’s perception of a Web site can evoke a wide range of emotions and attitudes.  These emotions and perceptions impact the user’s attitude towards the Web site’s content, advertised products, company, credibility and site usability.

The design and presentation of a Web site is strongly visual and users are known to make aesthetic judgments of a site very quickly. Since the site’s aesthetics can influence brand perception and credibility, the importance of design and color treatments must be considered.

Source : http://www.usability.gov/articles/062009news.html



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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:44 AM, maina <dmaishe@gmail.com> wrote:
Well put @John Gitau


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
well I dont care much for the design. If i was to be picky I'd say the fact that the site has links supposed to point to speeches that 'dead end' is just wrong.

What I am having an issue with is blanket procramations of site is bad.

If you look back the last time I saw such a rant (http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/05/companies-registry-website-cost-62-million-cant-even-search/) someone complained about the companies registry and gave a very concise list of their issue with that portal.

Im asking you to not compare our statehouse with white house site and instead point out issues with the site that we can actually go out and fix especially since Im sure this site was funded with my tax shillings.

Gitau

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@John Gitau,

Lets first establish where you stand in regards to web design stuff, what do you think of http://www.whitehouse.gov/ in terms of:
  • Content "richness"
  • Aesthetics
To make it even easier, if YOU had to contribute 100k from YOUR pocket for a website, would you rather get whitehouse.gov or statehousekenya.go.ke?




On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:56 AM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
ehh whats wrong with the site. What if the designer actually met the requirements? I mean who dictates what a site should look like. As far as I can tell the content there is way better than some 'well designed' sites.

How about maybe offer a suggestion on what you'd like to see, if you did a free site for the state house for instance what makes you believe we would like it more than the one there?

Me devos advocate (though I seriously see lots of bashing here so just before you start on me let me try defend someone:-))
JG


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:50 AM, victor yegon <viktayeg@gmail.com> wrote:
Seriously azin for a whole state house fraternity

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
I actually did a site and offered it free of charge, never got a word from anyone on this or the other lists... (i had addressed it to the PS).


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Garr Patronas <garr.patronas@gmail.com> wrote:
Vic, you probably don't want to know who did this site. You could
suddenly find it impossible to inhibit the urge to whack the
"web-designer" with a crowbar.
:)

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