This raises some questions, common ones it seems.
- Why does Virginia.gov have so much trouble getting their site live? It's not that big a site, and they're the Web experts. We know they're the experts because they keep telling us. Yet time and time again they can't get their act together.
- Why do they get to be different? Everyone else has to follow the Standard and put out the same banner. But Virginia.gov, who came up with the thing, gets to go off in a different direction. Take a look: no goofy duplicated searches, and they use whatever colors they want when we have to use black.
- Is "burnt urine" such a wonderful color that they can't seem to break away from it?
This time I'm even going to suggest a solution. It's one that has worked very well for us in the past. It's called "training."
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They seem to also forget that it needs to be 508 compliant.
Some of those errors can be explained as the birth pains involved in pushing out a site change using a CMS. Chances are you caught those pages while content was being updated.
Also, Virginia.gov didn't come up the standards/new banner. :)
anon, you're right. It's probably more accurate to say they were heavily involved in the overall process. At least that's how I've heard it described.
That would also be incorrect. :) They helped a little. The logo was not done by them.
Then the folks at Virginia.gov need to spend some time on damage control and spin doctoring, because the word on the street puts them heavily in bed with VITA and the SOTECH on this particular debacle.
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