BOCOG launched a “new version” of their website. To put it mildly, it sucks. Can’t they really find any better designers?
The list of complaints is so long I won’t try to give an overview. Follow some anyway.
It starts with the home page. Sorry people but here we use Celsius and not this F stuff for temperature. You can’t even chose to go metric – OK for me to have an option F for the USA, why not.
If you use a MAC, well, forget it. To download their brochure (suddenly they seem to have one!) you stumble on an .exe file. Did they ever hear about a PDF?
After you login, well, you are not “logged in” and you can’t “log out”.
And their search is totally useless, at least in English. A friend sent me the comment that our Olivier Strebelle project was featured on the website (more about that later, hold on). Tough luck, nowhere to be found in the English section and no result with search.
Their electronic map: as I said to Capinfo and others in the past, their weak point is they don’t have any system to update information on the city. The maps are unreliable and wrong at times. I only checked my area – Gongti. I guess you have to pay them to get the right info mentioned? For reliable information, better go to “That’s Beijing”.
Hopeless really. I did fill out their questionnaire.