Saturday, January 14, 2006

They're all terrible

Recently, I blogged about how terrible the LSR website was. Apparently, bad websites are the norm when it comes to Indian education.

Even the mighty IIT Bombay has an inconsistent website, with a hideous site design when you descend one or two levels deep from the main site. The first page looks rather nice, but every link underneath it has its own design, no css, and absolutely no consistency. The right hand doesn't know what the left is upto.

http://www.iitb.ac.in/

Which is all pretty reminiscent of the place itself.
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4 comments:

  1. what they need is a CMS for consistency...Zope (based on python) and Typo3 (based on PHP) would both be excellent CMSs (they're open source as well)... they wouldnt even have to do any coding to implement the system across department sub-sites... but the fact is these IIT folks/profs dont care... all they care about are the things that are visible (and therefore can be used to show off the IIT brand) such as :

    1. More subjects taught in one semester than univs abroad -- we all know to what depth they're covered ;)

    2. A well designed home page :) who cares abt what's inside ;)

    3. A tough entrance exam -- they get one full year to slog it out and nice russian reference books like irodov's physics for setting the jee entrance papers... even an illiterate can toss a few coins/dice etc for choosing which of the questions on irodov to set for the entrance..... hehe
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  2. You are sick man! Sitting in US and trying to faults with your own country. Instead of comtributing towards betterment, trying to convince ppl that India is shit. Indian nationality should be taken away from people like you.
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  3. Hi Piyush,

    When did finding faults become a sick phenomenon? If you see my blog, I am equally critical of things in the West. When you see bad service, or poor performance, you complain no matter where you are.

    And I am contributing towards betterment. I have helped quite a few of my friends arrange their website better. If IITB wants to redesign their website, they are welcome to ask me, and I will help.
    But they probably won't. I tried to help when I was in IITB, and they didn't care, so why will they care about it now?

    Thirdly, I was finding faults with IITB even when Saurab and I were there, studying together. Better still, Saurab is still in India and he has very similar things to say.

    So I want to know what makes you the ultimate decider of who should be Indian or not.

    Just because I am in the West doesn't make me sick. Come up with good reasons, and I will probably agree. (Nobody is clean as a whistle, and I definitely have my sick sides. :)

    Smile and friendly,
    Vikram
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  4. hey checkout this website:

    Government of India has a online
    Grievance forum at http://darpg-grievance.nic.in/

    to my surprise, this one has actually worked for a colleague of mine.

    anyway, if your blog is planning to follow the title's meaning, you got to be a little less cynical at times, i guess. there are a few things which aint all that bad, that you can write about!

    -A bigger smile (I am not that nasty piyush guy or related to him anyway)
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