Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • The ‘unacceptable’ cost of a website

    While not at the scale of the notorious Birmingham City Council web project from ’09 the revelation via FOI website What Do They Know today that the Bristol City Council website cost £700k plus includes a £90k annual support contract has kicked up a bit of a kerfuffle in my Twitter stream. The project to rebuild the…

  • Greeting the Gateway to Research

    This time last year BIS launched the Innovation and Research Strategy and made the first public mention of a ‘gateway to research‘ that would openly provide data about all Government funded research via the web. [somewhere along the way the ‘Gateway to Research‘ became a bit of a brand in a way I am pretty sure…

  • Wondering about workflows..

    In my long history with content management systems one of the things that comes up time and time again is the idea of ‘workflow’. This always surprises me as in my experience it is the first piece of functionality that either gets turned off or worked around on every CMS I have been involved in!…

  • Nexus4 the win?

    Despite my travails with my Nexus7 (that blog post still accounts for most of my traffic!) I took the leap and ordered a Nexus4 as soon as it was released. In fact I ordered it on my Nexus7 while shivering on a platform at Bristol Parkway station which was  a neat join up I thought…

  • Wondering about WYSIWYG…again

    At the moment I am teetering on the edge of another CMS project rabbit hole from which there might be no escape but before I trip and fall into it I have once again been looking at some of the fundamental issues around using CMS products – especially the WYSIWYG question again. [Previously I wrote…