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http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/insight_with_sean_langan_tales_of_the_taliban_and_other_stories/ Championing Independent Journalism Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:25:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/insight_with_sean_langan_tales_of_the_taliban_and_other_stories/#comment-20 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:17:03 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=735#comment-20 I am sorry to have to tell you this but most websites are abysmal, and the Frontline Club’s is no exception.
By a head, shoulders and a country mile, the best website is Wikipedia. I am not intersted in layout, look&feel and all the other time wasting garbage. I want content. Anything preventing me from getting content is an irritation. Thus, most websites are irritating.
Without doubt the worst sites in the world are watch manufacturers sites, and other luxury goods producers. These are ideal examples of how a website should not be constructed.
Most people use one or two axes to organize their life and one of them is … time. The BBC websites are a prime example of a website which should have a time-line upon which everything is accessible.
I have just spent half an hour fooling around on the Frontline Club website trying to watch videos of talks I have missed while I have been up country and guess what, I am about to give up and leave the office.
Most websites would benefit from a table of contents and an index and the Frontline Club’s is no exception. If you find ‘Talks’ in the index, and you press it, you could then be presented with a list of talks, chronologically 1->n with a ‘watch’ or ‘download’ button on the RHS. How difficult can it be ? The same goes for just about any entity on the Frontline Club’s website.
If you need an example, goto Wikipedia. I cannot make it simpler than that.
I shall spare you my theories of how web publishing comes to be so abysmal.

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