I think I actually prefer http://www.gateshead.gov.uk, which is a lot less "in your face".
If I go to a .gov.uk site it's because a need a specific piece of information, I don't need the design getting in the way.
If I go to a .gov.uk site it's because a need a specific piece of information, I don't need the design getting in the way.
Sadly, most UK government sites are both ugly and horrible to navigate. Or at least that was the trend until recently, thankfully it seems some of those organisations are starting to re-fit their site.
But then again Gateshead is near Newcastle so its hard to argue...
This is where the council paid to erect a London Eye replica in the middle of the bloody town; a city quite proud of featuring the tallest and ugliest hotel in the land, and where the main attractions are a stadium and one of the largest shopping centre in Europe (certainly the tackiest -- think Las Vegas' Bellagio, triple the size, add "paintings" of Wayne Rooney and Winston Churchill). Mancunians are a lovely bunch, but damn don't they half-like being in-your-face.
And the look of the manchester one of more balenced, whereas the gateshead one is nice and clean, but doesn't have any beauty about it.
For example, rollover states are either missing, inverting to hard to read colors, or... weird. Who designs buttons without designing and testing rollover states?
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