Supremely Disappointing Website Design
September 30th, 2007
I’m a bit of a CNN junkie. In the last few weeks, there has been a lot of buzz about the Supreme Court thanks to Jeffrey Toobin’s new book The Nine and the upcoming release of Justice Thomas’ memoir.
In an interview for the book release, Jeffrey referenced several particular decisions by the court and mentioned that you could see any decision in its entirety on the court’s website.
Hmmm, the Supreme Court’s website…I bet that’s pretty impressive. I think I’ll go take a look…
Yikes! I don’t know exactly what I expected the highest court in the land’s website to be, but it wasn’t this. I suppose I’m glad that thousands of my tax dollars are not being spent to make a sweet Supreme Court 2.0 portal. Although being a government run project that is produced and maintained by the Government Printing Office, I have to assume that it is one of the most costly basic, boring websites in the country if not the world.
Not to entirely bash the GPO and their design skills, I will give them that they have kept it simple. It seems pretty easy to use. I ran several searches, pulled up quite a few decisions and had fairly quick load times.
I just expected something more. Have you visited a website that you thought would be one thing and turned out to be something else entirely?
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Yikes. That design is totally unflattering haha
Yeah … that site is like a glimpse into 1991 …
Nice find, I have to admit I would never visit it under any other circumstances …
Alex
I thought that design was sexy
I also find local newspapers to be a source of amazingly crappy websites. But that may just be a Northern Ontario Canada thing. This site is pretty lame… but in a way its functional and I’ve definitely seen worse.
Looks fine to me…very usable, clean…what’s the problem?
i like the web design
what is the problem
Maybe there’s so much reason why the site is being kept simple. Let us give it a second thought. Maybe for some it maybe disgusting but in the other half maybe its functional.
Well the look is not that terrible (actually seen more government sites that were “yikier” than this), it has an okey color, it’s easy to navigate as the most important pages are in a more visible menu…but than looking at the source (the maniac I am) the yikie started become bolder.
I think the site is great. Most visits to that site would be for research. K.I.S.S.
Yep this is one terrible site, anyone who says different. Of course UK government sites are far better!!
That design was cool to me. The site is simple But there is a but. I depends from the angle you seeing it so to speak
Wow that is real bad!
its quite cool a site like i said before,everything all depends on how you see it.
I think the site is too plain for the Supreme Court - it needs a complete makeover….
Let there be an
update here please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This site is definitely not what you expect to see for the Supreme Court! I’ve visited some other websites that surprised me the same way..