This site is mostly a set of screen shots of really bad university home page web design, but it's still oddly compelling the way a train wreck is oddly compelling. The author writes, " in my experience the major problem is the same that leads to most poor corporate design: Design by Committee. Two heads may be better than one, but ten to twenty heads gets you an ugly website. As aesthetic decisions become subject to bureaucracy, inner-office politics and groupthink, the quality of the finished product decreases exponentially." Via Tony Bates. See alsothis post on why universities have such lousy web sites, and, of course, the XKCD cartoon on university web sites. Me, I don't think it's the committees per se, but more, a hypersensitivity common to most institutions over managing their image online.
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