Nigerian Website Stereotypes

-Images collapsing on top of each other.
-Site built without an architectural frame work.
-Site not updated,especially government sites.
-Interactive sites are actually not interactive rather populated with templates.
-SEO standards are not followed,thus,not visible in search engines.
-eCommerce base are not trusted for fear of fraud.
-Traffic is low because the total useability/web awareness is low.
-Professionalism in the web design/IT trade is low because of training,cost,availability of tools/software.

ha!

Very good.  I am enjoying this thread.  Others, please post more.

@kehers, sure there are.  No arguments there.  In fact, based on this forum, there are more than just 2 

I guess where I was coming from is, having seen a lot of sites on profiles/reviews here, I have noticed certain themes and trends.  Perhaps many on here are reading from the same (e) books

@yawa-ti-de
u are quite funny, i wonder how many sites you've put up for review, last time i checked it was none

so how can you come to such a false conclusion on naija sites
all u listed prevail on sites of those from other countries.

Tundewoods neva posted channels site for review and there are a lot of designers that will neva post es on forums
clients sites on forums

i learnt why when i listed profakinwandedental.com for review wt pple going as far as contactin d client
talk of hungry webmasters!

i wld also generalize by saying your coy also produces bad sites

i've been busy designing some sites recently and will not post for review here as some also won't

so you can't judge thru web reviews eg naijagurus.com was not listed for review and its a wonderful site

by the way, web reviews are usually done by those looking to build reputation, who get jobs only
on forums nt real world.

let's look at the positive sides and how we can grow, nland gave so much to me in d days of my2cents and sbucareer

i hope we can go back to those days, [/size][/size][/size][/size]

@webguru
Bet Ya-wa didnt put up the post to hit anyone.
Talking reviews, let's keep it coming, I personally believe there is no know-all and that knowledge can be gained from anyone. From suggestions and critics, we can always gain one thing or another.

Good & Bad responses ! But your responses need to be clear, as he want us to improve our sites, thats the reason he posted this. Even the best sites still reconstruct. Lets keep inproving, but note that what is interesting to u i might not like, so just keep improving.

Inactive links is a common feature.

e.g  www.nairalandmagic.com/#

@mustay
So I guess what you are saying is that we should add, "blank pages" to the list? 

@webdezzi,

I personally have no problem with green but find it interesting that a majority of sites we develop have that color (or colors close to it) as though someone had passed a decree punishable by death that we must use green.  I personally have used green as well so I am not to be spared in all this 

As for those who are calling up clients to discredit the original developer, that is a shame, pure and simple, depending on what they said. If they say, "we can do better" or something to that effect, I can see with them on that but to say, "that site sucks and you shouldn't have used that guy at all" or words to that effect is another matter entirely.

Besides, which client having spent say 100K on a site, will immediately scrap it?  I know I wouldn't.  I would let the site stay as it is for at least a year.  After all, someone else is more than likely to rubbish that one as well.  I am not the united nations to be handing out money like handing out sweets to a little kid.

The aim of this post is part educational.   Some of the points are bad and as a group we need to LEARN from them and be better developers.

@mustay

Tell me about it man.  I see it all the time.

So many things i can say

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Mustay:

Tell me about it man.  I personally know of govt jobs where that govt paid N40million and the result? CRAP, just like what you have attached above, if not worse.  Our problems? Cronyism, nepotism and greed.  What makes it worse is that the above site is owned by an IT agency.  I clicked "contacts" and got the "about us" page.  I clicked "enquiry" and got the "IT industry" page.  It's only after I clicked "ask questions" that I got a form which didnt even validate (front or back end).  Meanwhile, someone is somewhere in an airconditioned office saying to himself, "we too, we follow get website now. E dey for our complimentary card.  see am now".  Tufia!!! 

All I want and pray for is that one single web job, hit am one time, N20million minimum (including maintenance as I hear many will not ask why your cost is so high if you say You will maintain for duration of the executive's term), clean mouth.  Then maybe who knows?  Word gets out, other state govts hear of me and I get to make more N20million jobs.  Either way, whether I hit am once, twice or 36 times (for each state), I still dey clean mouth.

Can I get an Amen? 

he he he

Omo, make person connect me with any government agency, as far as na design; i no get problem

Corruption dey rife for naija true true o! as far as them get web address, na "DONE JOB" be that

d guy sef  na badddoskiiiiii. im` make sure say the time dey work for the site meanwhile, e don tey wey I'm update am

2006

Guyz,  ever since the creation of this world, it has been a constant but abnormal thing that good things like this does not come to people who have the knowledge of it.

what shall be done?

In my language we say, God doesn't give a bad animal horns because they are already bad.  In other words, God didn't give a Lion horns but he gave a goat horns.  In science, I guess you would say this is so because the ones with horns need to protect themselves from those without them.

Go figure!