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== Things that are wrong with the new Oxford web site == == Things that are wrong with the new Oxford web site http://www.ox.ac.uk/ ==
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* Breaking OSM licence: http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?postcode=OX1+3JP&location=St%20John%27s%20College&id=483 - no attribution
* Can't get to full form for contact search except by doing a simple search for "people"
 * Breaking OSM licence: http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?postcode=OX1+3JP&location=St%20John%27s%20College&id=483 - no attribution
 * http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?postcode=OX1+3JP&location=Copyright%20Violation&id=483 - widdyable
 * Can't get to full form for contact search except by doing a simple search for "people"
 * Department/college A-Z: have to guess the letter of the college you want rather than being able to browse them all
 * 'This is Oxford' on the home page - what on earth is this for? What sort of information am I expecting to see?
 * pages aren't valid xhtml
 * CSS is invalid too
 * no Webmail link
 * having {{{ alt="" }}} might satisfy an automated accessibility check but isn't very helpful for disabled users looking at images.
 * 'news' is difficult to find from front page
 * New trendy web site, and the front page is *more* boring than the old site - looks like a holding page for a typosqatted domain
 * all the links on the front page point to 'unfriendly' coldfusion URLs (then rewrite to 'friendly' URLs)
 * Many many broken links - for an illustration of just how emabarrassing this is, see http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=university+of+oxford&meta=&btnG=Google+Search
 * on a 1024x768 screen, the A-Z of colleges boxes take up
 so much space that you can't see the results underneath
 without scrolling
 * if you turn off Javascript, the headings on the home page pop up a big picture you cannot remove
 * attachment:BugRiddenScreenShot screen shot showing lots of bugs

1. Things that are wrong with the new Oxford web site http://www.ox.ac.uk/

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