Tulsa's Web Presence

[fractal]

Anyone know who is in charge of Tulsa's web presence.  The city of Tulsa's web page is not awful but surely not reflective of the "Silicon Valley of the Midwest" image so many seem to tout.  The Tulsa Police Department's web page is awful but I suppose that is reflective of the state of disarray the TPD has been in for most of the 10 years I have lived here.  Looks like the crime tracker on the TPD page hasn't been updated in almost a year but I don't suppose they really want us knowing  about all the crime going on around us.  So depressing to watch the Public Service channel with all the city council members fighting like frat boys over who's float is going to lead the Homecoming Parade.  What the hell has happened to this city over the past decade?  Sorry so negative but at a time when we need the strongest leadership it seems we are being sorely let down.  Rant off....

[sgrizzle]

I'll add to your rant, the new website for the Transit System Plan is:

http://www.transitsystemplan.org/website/

really?

The http://  and the www prefixes are pretty much not needed anymore, but this goes further by adding a suffix.

[Nik]

I would assume that would be the City's IT department.

[RecycleMichael]

I think this one is coming from INCOG

[Gaspar]

I'll add to your rant, the new website for the Transit System Plan is:

http://www.transitsystemplan.org/website/

really?

The http://  and the www prefixes are pretty much not needed anymore, but this goes further by adding a suffix.

Crappy DotNuke content management system.  Very easy to hack, but free.  At least we know they didn't pay much.

Correction:  At least we know the company they paid a bunch of money to did not spend much designing the site.

[nathanm]

Crappy DotNuke content management system.  Very easy to hack, but free.  At least we know they didn't pay much.

Correction:  At least we know the company they paid a bunch of money to did not spend much designing the site.

The CMS has nothing to do with the subdirectory on the URL. Rewrite rules can be used to eliminate that. Moreover, if you type in www.transitsystemplan.org you miraculously get redirected to the proper place, so that complaint is completely pointless.

TPD's website, on the other hand, hasn't been redesigned in years. I'm generally in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" crowd, but TPD's site is broke and needs to be fixed.

BTW, all the good CMSes are free. (dotNuke wouldn't be my choice, though)

[YoungTulsan]

"Silicon Valley of the Midwest"

LOL

Was this true during some week of mid 1995 when we had the best infrastructure for 28.8kbps dialup?

As far as perceived web presence goes, now that google localizes your searches, some people may be getting the wrong idea and thinking their local site is getting a top result on google when everything is just being balkanized further.

[Gaspar]

The CMS has nothing to do with the subdirectory on the URL.

Oh, I know that.  When you first install DotNuke it asks what directory you want to use or if you want it to be in the root  (I believe "website" is the default). 

This just means that the person setting it up had no idea what they were doing.  I still bet they got paid well.

There are defiantly some good free ones.  Currently I'm a big fan of Joomla with Community Builder.