$3 million for City of Vancouver website

August 8, 2012

Posted by Vancity Buzz | 12 »

The Province is reporting that the new and improved City of Vancouver website cost three million dollars to build. Yes, you read that correctly, $3 million. Of course a city website is complex, however, $3 million seems steep, real steep. The question most residents of Vancouver should be asking is where exactly did the money go?

Whoever got that contract is laughing all the way to the bank.

Source: The Province

Image: Screen cap of Vancouver.ca

http://twitter.com/dd_l Danielle Libonati

I was just cursing the website change this morning with how slow and awkward it was too! Had no idea they spent so much on it…
Andrew Chobaniuk

Another example of Gregor Robertson’s NDP pedigree and the sad future we have in store if we elect the NDP provincially.
http://twitter.com/No6655321 LTD.Edition

probably a whole team developing a new database and setting up brand new high capacity servers… probably mostly wasted but I can see it easily getting up there for something with that kind of scope. Just not… that high, perhaps 1/10th of that.
Michelle

The City of Vancouver cost 3 million to build? Did I read that correctly?
MM

Wow, that’s not a high price if its the CITY of Vancouver that costs 3 million to build!

I’ll offer you a bargain and edit your posts..for free!

hehe, couldn’t help it!
David

I can’t even get to the website? Is it hosted on their Office internet connection?
http://www.powershiftermedia.com/blog jaypiddy

Odd, looks like my comment was removed or hidden.
http://twitter.com/tekmosis Jamie Taniguchi

I’ve been in the industry for over 6 years; I took a look through the code and it’s very amature and sloppy work. Some of the things like the banner rotation, the dropdown menus are all free 3rd party scripts, not sure on each ones license and how that applies to a government site, if it’s even legal to be using them. The CSS conventions used are just sloppy, they’re not using efficient practices like sprites for all their icons, one of their CSS files even has a “Copyright (c) 2007, Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.” in it. The list goes on, and I’m just quickly going through things.
Even with the cost of servers this is not a 3mil project. It kind of infuriates me to see our tax dollars go towards workmanship such as this. Gotta call them out on this, Yellow Pencil Inc. seem to be the ones behind the contract. Seems as though they also do hosting, so I’m speculating they roped the city in to go with them, probably got reemed through that too. Yea, ok I can see where 3mil came from. Ridiculous.
Melissa Ss Kwan

We could have done it for half!
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