Local blogger Lai Zit Seng is miffed at the amount of effort that’s gone into this year’s National Day Parade (NDP) website. Here’s a summary of why he thinks it’s such shoddy work:
1. The website requires that visitors submit personal information as part of the ticket balloting process, but it does not use encryption.
2. If you have punctuation marks in your name, chances are you won’t be able to join in the balloting. The text fields allow for very restricted input.
3. According to W3C’s Markup Validation Service, there are 176 errors in the HTML coding of the website.
4. The navigation bars are confusing and redundant.
5. More than half of the links in the drop-down panel are also redundant.
6. Big picture icons that allow you to mouse over… go to nowhere.
7. Much of the information on the site are in JPEG, PDF and ZIP format — might as well give us the link to a Dropbox.
8. The InfoComm Development Authority of Singapore has been pushing for the city to adopt Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Yet an important platform, the NDP website, doesn’t use it.
9. There’s no mobile site design. And there’s an Android app, but none for iPhone.
10. Because of the overloaded use of fonts, the website has no consistency, and no identifiable style.
For a more comprehensive explanation on how the 2014 Singapore National Day Parade website sucks, read the full story on Zit Seng’s Superwall.
