The shiny new ‘official site’ of No 10 Downing St is not a website… it is a blog and a bog standard one at that.
Not only is it a blog but it appears to be no less than a ‘political blog’ glorifying the activities and sayings of our Great Leader. Welcome to the blogosphere, Gordon Brown! I hope your comment moderation can stand the strain!
In fact, it is a WordPress blog (like this one) that uses a FREE theme called Network-10 (Ha Ha) which is an old but trusty theme that has been around for some time. It will be interesting to find out how much this has cost, since we at Cambria Politico could probably knock something similar up in a day or so. My charge would only be £0.5 million. Cheap bach cheap.
Needless to say the UK bloggers Dizzy and Guido are well into this. Also Devil’s Kitchen and Ordovicius. Even the geeks and uberwebgeeks are aroused.
Update:
According to Mike Rouse this website/wordpress blog cost the taxpayer in the region of £100,000 . He states that he would charge around £500-2000 for the same work. Somebody is on a nice little earner here.
Comments
wait… someone should have told old Gordy that blogging is dead, saved him the trouble
Aren’t you supposed to leave the credits at the bottom if you use a free theme?
Credits…that is indeed the convention (with which we comply)
I didn’t mean you personally, but No10 doesn’t have any. But then again, it looks nothing like Networker-10 anymore, so they’ve changed practically everything, making it not the same theme really.
Hmmm.. WordPress is notorious for suffering from the “Digg effect”. I hope No10 isn’t expecting surges in traffic at any point. Or maybe they have good developers who use Wp-Cache. Hope so, for their sakes.
Its also riddled with scripting errors and doesn’t comply with accessibility standards. Poor piece of work by amateurs.