City of Fredericton web site double-fail
Posted by Lamespotting on 21 Oct 2009 at 04:00 am | Tagged as: Fredericton, fail, website
Q:What’s worse than not having information posted on a website?
A:Having it up on the site, but not linking to it so it can’t be found.
Last week, I posted an article about how the City of Fredericton doesn’t post a lot of information on its website. Imagine my surprise when I Googled something completely unrelated and find this:
http://www.fredericton.ca/en/transportation/resources/2009_ConstructionMap.pdf
It’s exactly what’s needed, but it isn’t linked from anywhere on the main www.fredericton.ca site. The file properties show that it was created on Sept 9th, which was well before my blog post criticizing them for not having it.
It’s really sad that they have this information compiled and ready to go, but they are unwilling to release it. It’s time to tear down the wall between City Hall and the people. It’s 2009, there is no excuse for this.
That’s interesting. I had a similar situation a while ago on another site. I wonder if it’s just human error or laziness that fails to post the link to the information?
Actually, someone must have linked to it somewhere,
it is likely somewhere linked to on the city of fredericton page, otherwise google would not have found it either.
The “error” is most likly not that it wasn’t released, it was released, it just wasn’t easily visible for users, which is subjective after all.