Number 10 Website Stolen
I have already made comment on the new Number 10 website. It seems as if the design was stolen from the Themes Database, and badly botched before being put online. Full comment with outgoing links from the theme’s author.
This just goes to show how monumentally divorced the government is from the real world. There is no excuse in hiring a company to make a website on an open source platform and then not declaring copyright disclaimers. If the press released shouted “open source”, even the most technically unaware individual in the Number 10 office should stop and think “wait, that means we didn’t make it ourselves. Maybe the copyright notice should reflect that”. It is a disgrace.
It really gets to something when government cannot even deliver a simple Wordpress website without messing up. I have used loads of Wordpress themes in the past, all with appropriate copyright notices. It was with a slight smile on my face that the latest theme for this website went live with my name at the bottom, not anyone else’s - I built it from scratch, line by line. Apparently the Number 10 website cost £100,000, but it is no more technically advanced than this site, and whoever put it together could not be bothered to design it, or even steal a design properly. I am obviously wasting my time, when I could be making government websites for ludicrous sums.
Typical pessimism, Ali.
If I had your (formidable) skills and came across this story my immediate, over-riding reaction would be joy, perhaps accompanied with the words: “Sweet Heavens! I’ll be rich! Stinking rich!!“
Good government always comes first. Always.